I had to create an Internet site and decided to try “Joomla Cloud” for site creation. “Joomla cloud” for free Joomla version is hosted by “Cloudaccess.net”. The platform had its sign up possibilities with other cloud accounts such as Google and it was possible to create your dedicated account for the platform using your email as the username.
During sign up procedure, you do get a separate account for managing your site with “SuperUser” rights.
On the Internet, you can find instructions that you can use your “SuperUser” account for both site management and connecting to site backed with FTP. I needed to connect with FTP as initially, I planned to create a sitemap XML file manually and upload it to the site. Unfortunately, I was not able to establish an FTP connection as it was arguing about the incorrectness of my credentials.
So I had to use OSMap it is an extension for Joomla for sitemap creation and maintenance. The sitemap for my site started to work and I was happy.
The difference between WordPress.com and Joomla.com free sites from sitemap perspective is that WordPress free sites in default templates include sitemap support: you can access sitemap by the link:
https://yoursite.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml
Joomla free sites do not have sitemap support by default, but it is very easy to install OSMap extension. After that, you can find your sitemap by the following link:
https://yoursite.joomla.com/index.php/component/osmap/?view=xml&id=1&format=xml
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