Redirects and site map isn't showing

[Caffeine_Marketing]

We had a malware hack and spent 3 days trying to get Bluehost to fix things.  Since they have made changes 2 things are happening:

1. Our .xml sitemap cannot be created  https://www.caffeinemarketing.co.uk/sitmap.xml  we have tried external tools

2.  We had 301 redirects from the http (www and non www versions) nad the https;// (non www version)  throughout the whole website to https://www.caffeinemarketing.co.uk/ and subsequent pages

Whilst the redirects seem to be happening, when you go into the tools such as https://httpstatus.io every version of every page is a 200 code only whereas before ther were showing the 301 redirects

Have Bluehost messed things up?  Hope you can help

thanks

[WebQuest]

Hi Carrie,

For your 301 redirects on the root level, it sounds like the .htaccess file has changed on the server. Can you try validating those other http and non-www versions of the website through other tools like ScreamingFrog? If you're still getting 200 response codes, I would advise raising the issue with Bluehost as this is something they can fix.

As for the XML sitemap, do you  mean that you're unable to upload a file to that location? Have you tried sFTP?

[Caffeine_Marketing]

Hi, are you able to please interpret this for me.  It looks like the non www versions are showing as https://www version on 200.  the home page looks like the only 301???

[Caffeine_Marketing]

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[effectdigital]

That attachment shows that non HTTPS and non WWW URLs are being 301 redirected to the HTTPS-WWW version(s). That's what you want right? From your screenshot it seems like it is working how you want

Just so you know, when you put one architecture into Screaming Frog (e.g: you put in HTTP with no WWW), it doesn't limit the crawl to that specific architecture. If the crawler is redirected from non-WWW non HTTPS to HTTPS with WWW, then the crawler will carry on crawling THAT version of the site

If you wanted to crawl all of the old HTTP-non-WWW URLs, you would need to list all of them for SF in list mode and alter the crawlers settings to 'contain' it to just the list of URLs which you entered. I'm pretty sure then, you would see that most of the HTTP-non-WWW URLs are properly redirecting as they should be

As for the XML thing it's very common especially for people using Yoast. I think Yoast is really good by the way, but for some reason, on some hosting environments the XML sitemap starts blank-rendering. Most of the time hosting companies say they can't fix it and it's Yoast's fault but I don't really believe that. If a file (e.g: sitemap.xml) cannot be created, it's more likely they went in via FTP and changed some file read/write permissions and due to it being more locked down, the XML cannot be created anymore. If you were hacked by malware, they were likely over-zealous when locking your site back down and it's causing problems for your XML feed(s)

[WebQuest]

I agree with what effectdigital said. It looks like everything is in place and your non-www and you http versions of the website are redirecting to the https-www version of the site.