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Fix XML sitemaps to work by forcing .htaccess to pick them up. Add this to the .htaccess, above the WordPress rewrites. This version assumes you're using a subfolder install with WordPress installed in /wordpress/, adapt if needed.
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gistfile1.apacheconf
# WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^sitemap_index.xml$ /wordpress/index.php?sitemap=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /wordpress/index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L]
# END WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
@benarent
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I also have an install of nginx that forces closing /

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
RewriteRule ^sitemap_index.xml$ /wordpress/index.php?sitemap=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /wordpress/index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L]
# END WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
</IfModule>

http://nblog.airbrake.io.php53-5.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_xml
http://airbrake.io/blog/sitemap_index.xml/

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ex-jedi commented Sep 18, 2014

Yep, seems to work fine. Thanks for that!

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