Thread:Project:Support desk/Problem getting Google to find sitemap/reply (2)

Yes.

I also have this:

RewriteRule .*\.ico$ - [L] RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(skins|stylesheets|images|config)/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index|api|load).php RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

For the short URLs and enabling the favicon. I remember reading here that it's necessary to have that line to get the favicon to work with short URLs.