Xml sitemaps giving 404 errors

[ang]

We have recently made updates to our xml sitemap and have split them into child sitemaps. Once these were submitted to search console, we received notification that the all of the child sitemaps except 1 produced 404 errors. However, when we view the xml sitemaps in a browser, there are no errors. I have also attempted crawling the child sitemaps with Screaming Frog and received 404 responses there as well. My developer cannot figure out what is causing the errors and I'm hoping someone here can assist. Here is one of the child sitemaps: http://www.sermonspice.com/sitemap-countdowns_paged_1.xml

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Well, it's quite weird. I do get 404, even when I use just Inspect Element of the browser, but it does display the sitemap.

Make sure that there is no enforcing of a response status somewhere or inproper RewriteRule or something.

P.S. it does sound like improper settings or header or something. Check this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6402177/url-is-returned-with-404-error-but-content-exists

[KristinaKledzik]

Angela - have you had a chance to check your settings and/or header? Any luck?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

How are you checking this? Because when I do a request with either CURL or in the browser I'm just getting a proper 200 response.

[ang]

Finally we were able to get a 200 response. Thank you for your input.