@arunpatidar Upon noticing the logs I see that theSitemapGeneratorImpl extends ResourceTreeSitemapGenerator is never hitting which is why custom logic is also failing. When I track the requests the sitemap is only calling org.apache.sling.sitemap.impl.SitemapServletand the sitemap is getting generat...

Thank you for your response @arunpatidar .Do you have the latest repo URL for wknd? The following ones don't seem to be inlined with the cloud https://github.com/adobe/aem-guides-wkndAnd yes I am manipulating the code as you mentioned but that again is a dirty way I feel.

@arunpatidar  Our situation is similar in that we don't have the /etc/mapping file and instead rely on the org.apache.sling.jcr.resource.internal.JcrResourceResolverFactoryImpl to control everything. However, like you, we are still getting relative URLs instead of absolute ones. I came across your c...