Override redirects caused by Translate & Adapt app, sitemap not being served correctly

gaca · ‎06-28-2025

I'm using the Translate & Adapt app to localize and translate my store as I am serving a multilingual community.

However, my sitemap is inaccessible because whenever I try to access /sitemap.xml, I'm getting redirected to /en-ca/sitemap.xml, as illustrated by the below script output. And then I get a 404 because, obviously, the sitemap is not being served at /en-ca/sitemap.xml .

I'm wondering if:

1. The Translate & Adapt app has any settings that I'm not aware of where I can control the redirects?

2. There is a way to override this behavior using the Shopify URL Redirect settings? For now, AFAIK I cannot do that because I did try to create a redirect from /sitemap.xml -> sitemap.xml but as expected, this is not supported. I also don't think I can create a redirect from /en-ca/sitemap.xml -> /sitemap.xml because this will cause an endless redirection loop.

3. Not ideal but alternatively, is there a Shopify setting that would allow me to serve the sitemap at /en-ca/sitemap.xml?

Those are the solutions that I can think of but I canoot figure out how to implement them.

The only other solution I can think of is using a proxy like CloudFlare or roll one out myself on a VPS but that just seems ridiculous.

For reference, here's a curl output that illustrates the behavior

curl -ILs https://${myDomain}/sitemap.xml | grep -i '^HTTP\|^Location'

HTTP/2 301 
location: https://www.${myDomain}/sitemap.xml
HTTP/2 302 
location: https://www.${myDomain}/en-ca/sitemap.xml
HTTP/2 404

Thank you for any help!

gaca · ‎06-30-2025

Hi! Thanks for your reply.

The problem with adding a URL redirect from /en-ca/sitemap.xml to /sitemap.xml is that it's going to cause an infinite redirect loop so this solution does not work.

I did not manage to get my sitemap via the CDN, I did replace my store ID in the URL but I only get 404s.

I will attempt to contact the Translate & Adapt support then.

gaca · ‎07-01-2025

It turns out that the problem is actually not caused by the Translate & Adapt app but it's really a consequence of Shopify's handling of domains that have multiple languages assigned to them.