I changed the default name for this file, and it gave me this error, and I changed it back to the default name and it worked. Point is, if the name cannot be changed, then why prompt? Also, what if I want to have user specific sitemaps based on their permissions? Is there some setting which needs to be changed?

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I didn't change the name of my web.sitemap file... Created it in Visual Web Developer 2005, set up the links, it all works when I build the site without debugging (I'm not debugging coz I don't want to create a web.config file yet), but as soon as I try to browse to the site's location on my machine, I get this error

I had the same problem. And it wasn't a problem at all. The only thing you should remember is your web.sitemap is supposed to be at the _ROOT_ folder, but not any other folder.

the web.sitemap must be in the root folder of the whole site not just the working sub-folder. www.site.com/web.sitemap not-www.site.com/website1/web.sitemap

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when i was studying asp.net 2.0 from wrox it worked fine then after few years when i try to practise it in my project i missed point that file name can not be modified that landed be in trouble,i tried different combination of xmldatasource,sitemapdatasource,sitemappath finally after googling got the right reason for error thanks.You saved by sleep.

Very helpful...it fixed my error.
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You can rename your sitemap but you need to specify it in web.config file like example below

<siteMap defaultProvider="Your_Anonymous_sitemap">
<providers>
<add securityTrimmingEnabled="false" siteMapFile="~/anonymous.sitemap" name="Your_Anonymous_sitemap" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"/>
<add securityTrimmingEnabled="true" siteMapFile="~/Your_loggedin.sitemap" name="loggedin_sitemap" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"/>
</providers>
</siteMap>

@Kevinbianni - I understand the concept of having a sitemap in the ROOT directory, however, what if you have two separate projects with two separate sitemaps? For some reason, the name cannot be changed to the sitemap and I can't add it to the ROOT or it will replace my old sitemap and the other project will not work. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

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Thank you for sharing this with the users. Often we come across such technical glitches that actually takes time and effort to be fixed. Thankfully there are so many online resources available that you now easily find solutions.

i take my web.sitemap to the root folder and its works fine.Thanks