google is showing wordpress sitemap in search results

[Hussam Al-tayeb]

Google is showing the actual wordpress sitemap.xml in search results which I don't want.
The sitemap is generated by all in one seo plugin. it's a dynamically generated file.
there is no real sitemap.xml file on the server.
I want to noindex it.
I tried those rules in htaccess but they don't work. this is probably due to the fact that the file isn't real.

<FilesMatch "sitemap\.xml">
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</FilesMatch>

<Files sitemap.xml>
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</Files>

<FilesMatch "\.xml$">
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</FilesMatch>

Any other way to do it?

 

*Edited for better wording*

[Hussam Al-tayeb]

I already tried that :) (notice the three rules in first post) but it won't work on  "virtual" files.

Any way for a rule to intercept a requested string?

 

Edit: I got it.

I added 

header("X-Robots-Tag: noindex", true);

to the script that generates the virtual sitemap.xml

 

so now it is:

echo '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="' . $plugin_path . 'sitemap.xsl"?>' . "\r\n";
echo '<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">' . "\r\n";
header("X-Robots-Tag: noindex", true);

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Edited February 23, 2014 by Hussam Al-tayeb

[Steven P. Administrators]

If you can't disable it from the SEO plugin why not create the file yourself and chmod it so it can't be overwritten? Just a thought?

[Hussam Al-tayeb]

Because I still want it to be auto-generated from posts.

I just want google to not place the actual sitemap.xml itself in google search results.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Well after a quick search I found this :P http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-noindex-the-sitemapxml-file

[Steven P. Administrators]

Did it for you.