Intercept the request to https://site.ru/sitemap.xml and send it to https://site.ru/seo_cap_sys/sitemap-general.php. Is it real?

Question

htaccess

Good day!
Task 1. Intercept the request to https://site.ru/sitemap.xml and send it to https://site.ru/seo_cap_sys/sitemap-general.php
Task 2
More complex
Intercept requests to https://site.ru/ sitemap1.xml and redirect to https://site.ru/seo_cap_sys/sitemap.php?num=1
where sitemap1.xml is the number after the sitemap and before the dot should go to https://site.ru/seo_cap_sys/sitemap.php ?num=1 - num parameter

Answer 1

Second option

Task 2
More complex
Intercept requests to https://site.ru/sitemap1.xml and redirect to https://site.ru/seo_cap_sys/sitemap.php?num=1
where sitemap1.xml is the number after the sitemap and before the dot go to https://site.ru/seo_cap_sys/sitemap.php?num=1 - num parameter

Checked - works for any digits (\d+)
sitemap1.xml leads to seo_cap_sys/sitemap.php?num=1
sitemap6666.xml leads to seo_cap_sys/sitemap.php?num=6666

Answer 2

More or less like this:

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] === '/sitemap.xml'){
    require('sitemap-general.php');
}

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] === '/sitemap1.xml'){
    require('sitemap.php?num=1');
}

Answer 3

It is also possible in .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml/?$ /sitemap-general.php [L]

Answer 4

A few years ago, I did similar experiments with redirects. It's quite real. But both Ya.Webmaster and Google.Webmaster refused to process a link to https://site.ru/sitemap.xml with such a redirect, and, therefore, the idea turned out to be meaningless.

Answer 5

there is a third option, do not deal with crap,
but read on the Internet as the search engines themselves recommend.
1. Add the sitemap directive with its address to the robots.txt file
2. https://webmaster.yandex.ru/site/indexing/sitemap/
3. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap-li ...