My forum is private, entirely closed for guests.

1. I have removed guest permission of the Forum application. (System -> Applications -> Forums -> Forums)
2. Forum categories do not have permission for guests.
3. Forums do not have permissions for guests.

I still see https://example.com/forums/ in my sitemap under https://example.com/sitemap.php?file=sitemap_applications 

Why? How can I delete it from my sitemap?

 

I did not see a setting to disable forums themselves, but I did find where to disable topics, which might disable forums if no topics are allowed.

ACP > System > Site Promotion > Search Engine Optimization > Sitemap

• UNCHECK "Use Recommended Settings".  
• Scroll down to "Topics".
• UNCHECK "Include In Sitemap"
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Save".
• Scroll to the top of the page and click "Rebuild Site Map".

It should create a task to rebuild the site map.  Once the task is complete, you should see the new results.  

Hopefully in addition to disabling indexing topics it would also disable the forums themselves as well with it.  

6 hours ago, Sonya* said:

My forum is private, entirely closed for guests.

1. I have removed guest permission of the Forum application. (System -> Applications -> Forums -> Forums)
2. Forum categories do not have permission for guests.
3. Forums do not have permissions for guests.

I still see https://example.com/forums/ in my sitemap under https://example.com/sitemap.php?file=sitemap_applications 

Why? How can I delete it from my sitemap?

 

This will be removed in the November release . 

4 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

Hopefully in addition to disabling indexing topics it would also disable the forums themselves as well with it.  

Unfortunately, no 😞

This has been resolved in the latest 4.6.8 release. Please upgrade to get the latest release, and let us know if you see any further issues.