Homepage counted twice in xml and txt sitemaps

[dody]

Hello,
i have had this problem before and you were able to fix it but it seems to be back again. i always get two homepages in each sitemap i create. i have read simmilar posts here and tried to include a backslash and /index.html to my homepage's url but they did not work. could you please help me? my website is [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]
thank you!

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

you can try to exclude index.html with robots.txt file:

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.html

[dody]

thak you it works now. can i leave "Disallow: /index.html" command in my robots.txt permanently or should i only use it when i am building a sitemap? i am using a redirect through my .htaccess file to avoid having two homepages. please let me know whether to use it permanently. thanks

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

yes, you can leave it since "index.html" just duplicates your main domain root homepage.