How to make robots + sitemap available?

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Folks, any idea or anyone of you who managed to make these available w/o 404 error?

Steps attempted to make robots.txt and sitemap.xml accessible:

Generated via Lovable prompt

Used “Create a sitemap with my custom domain …”.

Result: sitemap was created internally but returned 404 externally.

Route-based approach

Added src/pages/robots.txt.ts and src/pages/sitemap.xml.ts to serve files server-side.

Result: still 404.

Public folder approach

Created public/robots.txt and public/sitemap.xml.

Result: still 404.

Added _redirects file

Rules to prevent SPA routing from swallowing /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml.

Result: after publishing, still 404.

Checked Vite config

Verified vite.config.ts → no custom publicDir set, so it should work.

Result: files still not served.

👉 Conclusion so far:

Both the route approach and the static public + redirects approach have failed.

Anyone of you with an idea pls 🤓?

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