vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator

[cmiller1014]

How do I make google.com/webmaster aware of the sitemaps created by this? It still says none exist for my site......

[commandoone]

ATVTorture,

commandoone,

try to open settings via vB admincp->vBulletin options->vBSEO Sitemap generator (in dropdown)


Worked like a charm. Thanks for your help.

Tony D. :)

[donnie_ogm]

Hi guys,
I'm using this powerful mod but since my hoster have changed the server where I'm hosted the bot have stopped to download the sitemap of my site (for what I see in "Show Sitemap Downloads Log").

I've upload the file ".htacces" again to the root of my site cause I know that the hoster made some mistakes there while moving the site contents, but nothing more.
I'll wait to see the effect of this action but I'm not too confident in the fact that something will be solved.

Any other ideas? Please let me know.

Also the notification mail "vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Updated" have stopped to arrive.

[iojam]

NickyNet,

do you have vBSEO installed (this seems to be related to URL rewrites)? If yes, please open a ticket on vbseo.com.


cheat-master30,
1. "extra-urls.txt" is used to include non-forum URLs in sitemap.
2. it should not affect indexing of non-forum areas directly.


newsoftw,

try to add this in .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>


cmiller1014,

you should manually submit sitemap on google webmaster account.


donnie_ogm,

try to set 0666 permissions for vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file.

[ceech]

marked installed. thanx.

[Yosef Sh]

Thanksssssssss

[blackberry]

thanks

[Danial_Faster]

I have forgget password.
What i do?
------------
And vBSEO Sitemap Settings in emty and http://i33.tinypic.com/f9f7lj.jpg

[GlamRockTalk]

Go to your AdminCP, click on vBSEO. Then, click on vBSEO Sitemap Settings. About 3/4 of the way down you'll see the space for your password there.

Hope that helps. :)

[Danial_Faster]

Go to your AdminCP, click on vBSEO. Then, click on vBSEO Sitemap Settings. About 3/4 of the way down you'll see the space for your password there.

Hope that helps. :)

I when click to vbseo sitemap setting show the:
http://i33.tinypic.com/f9f7lj.jpg

[floggerss]

I have a problem, the sitemap never appears in the ftp.

I run the sitemapgenerator, it runs okei... even it sends me an email that it was ok. But when i enter to the ftp nothing is there. I look for it in the root folder, in the vbseo_sitemap/data/, vbseo_sitemap/ and nothing is there.....

What is the problem?

[Danial_Faster]

I when click to vbseo sitemap setting show the:
http://i33.tinypic.com/f9f7lj.jpg
Please help me.

[Danial_Faster]

I when click to vbseo sitemap setting show the:
http://i33.tinypic.com/f9f7lj.jpg
:mad:

[IRANCITY]

Not Found

The requested URL /sitemap_index.xml was not found on this server.

[Danial_Faster]

Not Found

The requested URL /sitemap_index.xml was not found on this server.
Please give me file,
What i do?

[edermix]

I wonder if I'm having a problem with indexing in my URLs:

Forum display: 0
Show Thread:
Show Post:

Note that are experiencing with nothing written ... what will? Because I was on Google is indexing and everything perfectly, but my logs does not show it, appears only the members indexing ...

Report:
============================
Click the following link for your vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Report:
http://www.xxxxxxx/vbseo_sitemap/

Summary:
============================
Forum Display: 0
Show Thread:
Show Post:
Member Profiles: 6829
Poll Results: 0
Archive: 1

Total Indexed URLs: 6832
Total Processing Time: 2.87 seconds

Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: Successful.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: Successful.
Live.com ping: Successful.

[Adam21]

This dont seems to work in vb3.8

The settings becomes a blank page.:(

[iojam]

floggerss,

make sure that you have 0777 permissions set for data/ folder.

Danial_Faster,Adam21,

try to open settings via vBulletin options dropdown instead of direct link in admincp.

IRANCITY,

did you generate sitemap?

edermix,

probably your subforums are private (not visible to guests), that's why they are not included in sitemap.

[mc0676]

I've a questione.
VBseo Sitemap work fine in my web site (3.7.4 pl 1) but after that the Gzip sitemaps was created into /vbseo_sitemap/data what i need to do ?
I need to add into my google account a new sitemap like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz
?
Or i need to move alle the xml file in other folder ?
Thanks.

[mc0676]

other problem ...
if u laung /forum/sitemap_index.xml

i receice:
Not Found

The requested URL /HOME/com/v/w/g/vwgolfcommunity/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php was not found on this server.

?

[iojam]

You should submit sitemap as http://www.mydomain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz, just make sure that you created .htaccess file in forums folder as described.

[mc0676]

You should submit sitemap as http://www.mydomain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz, just make sure that you created .htaccess file in forums folder as described.

Actually i'm the webmaster of two web site.
In one, this:
http://www.er6italia.com/vbulletin/sitemap_index.xml.gz

ALL work fine but in the other, making the same installation operation in the same vbulletin version, doesn't work.
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/sitemap_index.xml.gz

The two board use a different provider.
The forlder and file permission are the same.
It's very very strange.

Here:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I receive this:

Not Found
The requested URL /vbulletin/sitemap_index.xml.gz was not found on this server.


With the .htaccess standard.

If i change .htaccess from

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

TO

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ ../vbulletin/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Then i receive:

Not Found
The requested URL /HOME/com/v/w/g/vwgolfcommunity/www/vbulletin/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php was not found on this server.


I think that the problem is the .htaccess but i don't know very well the setting of this file.

[mc0676]

GREAT !!!
I SOLVE IN THIS WAY ! INCREDIBLE !

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ ../../../../../../../../vbulletin/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

[iojam]

I'm glad you got it working.
You could try to add this in .htaccess instead:
RewriteBase /vbulletin/

[mc0676]

I'm glad you got it working.
You could try to add this in .htaccess instead:
RewriteBase /vbulletin/

Good, it work too ! Thanks !

[payman]

that Is Free ??

I Want To InstaLL.

I Dont Have Vbseo Licence

I Want Download And Instal This Plugin Only .

[veenuisthebest]

yes this plugin is free. It does not require vbseo license.

[payman]

very very thanks

[mc0676]

I've an other question.
My server is an Apache.
If u launch:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/sitemap_01.xml

i receive
Sitemap not found

But if i lounch
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/sitemap_01.xml.gz

I can see the sitemap.

Why this ?

My htaccess is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /vbulletin/
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

[Kayden]

Okay, installation went smoothly, and the settings have been tweaked. Now I've run into a snag.


When clicking on a sub-forum, I receive the following error.
Not Found
The requested URL /display.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I know the error is coming from the .htaccess file. After I delete...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
... everything works fine again.


What's the issue?

[iojam]

mc0676,

you should use *.xml.gz sitemap URLs.

Kayden,

is that your full .htaccess or you have other rewrite rules?

[Kayden]

There are others.


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xxxxx.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.xxxxx.com$
RewriteRule ^forum/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.xxxxx\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

[iojam]

And you have nothing that refers to display.php on your site?

[Kayden]

There's no file by that name. There's no template by that name, either, so it's an odd occurrence.

The closest thing is forumdisplay.php, obviously.

EDIT: Well, I removed the other rewrite rules, and replaced with the vbseo line.

Seems to work. Hope it doesn't cause any issues.

[iojam]

You can replace "^forum/?(.*)$" in your other rewrite rule with "^forum/(.*)$".

[Adam21]

Whats the table to mass delete the Sitemap Download Logs in our admincp?

[iojam]

You should remove vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file for that.

[Adam21]

You should remove vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file for that.

Thanks alot.:)

[SLR722]

Installed thanks!

[Breakpoint]

Thanks, this will be great for my forum

[itsatonline]

i see this eror
plaese help me
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 45615150 bytes) in /home/itsat/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1298

[iojam]

Try to disable Text sitemap option, remove all files from data/ folder and regenerate sitemap.

[itsatonline]

i do that but aftaer sevral part see this eror again
[create sitemap in text format] part #34 [5,524.5Kb mem used] [971s (+0s)]
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 33 [5,531.9Kb mem used] [971s (+0s)]

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 27330775 bytes) in /home/itsat/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 12

[iojam]

Did you disabled the option AND remove files from data/ folder?

[itsatonline]

hi remove file from data folder but which option i must diabled?

[itsatonline]

ok i diable that and it work but i see it
yahoo not ping
Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: FAILED.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: Successful.
Live.com ping: Successful.

[IRANCITY]

i do all u say in read me
but its not work for me
http://www.iecloob.com/sitemap_index.xml

[IRANCITY]

......
.
.
.
Sitemap has been created

but dont creat

[pobox112]

The site generator works but the links are all 404. This was an imported Forum from phpb3

http://www.domain.com/viewtopic.php?f=10

instead of generating:

http://www.domain.com/showthread.php?f=10

How can I change this?

Thanks

[floggerss]

......
.
.
.
Sitemap has been created

but dont creat

Same as me., I reinstall the Mod, i look that it have CHMOD 777 permisson. But it dont create the sitemap

[TriMe]

Fireproof,

you can check if mod_rewrite works on your site as described in http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/



I am having horrible problems trying to get the mod rewrite to move my sitemap_index.xml.gz to the forum root.

I tried the mod_rewrite check as stated above using this code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R]

and didn't work so I contacted my host and he said that its written incorrectly. He put this code in instead, and it worked.

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^testpage.html$ http://www.google.com [NC,L,R=307]

I was forwarded to google's site.


In the VBSEO instructions I'm supposed to put to put this in my .htaccess file to move the sitemap_index.xml.gz file:


RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

but since the google code was written incorrectly for it to work on my site, maybe the other RewriteRule code is written incorrectly as well.

I can see sitemap_index.xml.gz in my /vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder (and the folder has 777 permissions) and the generator and pings all work.



I'm really frustrated and hope someone can help me out.

TriMe

[donnie_ogm]

Hi guys,
I'm using this powerful mod but since my hoster have changed the server where I'm hosted the bot have stopped to download the sitemap of my site (for what I see in "Show Sitemap Downloads Log").

I've upload the file ".htacces" again to the root of my site cause I know that the hoster made some mistakes there while moving the site contents, but nothing more.
I'll wait to see the effect of this action but I'm not too confident in the fact that something will be solved.

Any other ideas? Please let me know.

Also the notification mail "vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Updated" have stopped to arrive.

donnie_ogm,

try to set 0666 permissions for vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file.

Thanks for the answer,

After these two actions (.htacces file and 666 permission for for vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file) only yahoo bot started to download the sitemap again... while nothing happen for google_bot.

The notification e-mail still has some trouble, it doesn't arrive.

Any other idea?

[HasanSheriff]

Can someone hlp me with this...

1. Uploaded all files from upload folder to forum root
2. Changed permissions for /vbseo_sitemap/data/ for IIS_IUSRS to full controll
3. Imported .xml product
4. Configured using admincp
5. Logged into site with web admin www.WEBSITE.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap/
6. Run Sitemap generator
7. Got error:
Warning: fopen(C:\inetpub\wwwroot\www.WEBSSITE.com\vbseo_si temap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\www.WEBSITE.com\vbseo_sitemap\v bseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 769

I'm kinds stuck. Appreciate your help.

[iojam]

TriMeб

you should use this .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]


donnie_ogm,

try to resubmit sitemap to Google.


HasanSheriff,

looks like permissions were not set correctly, please re-check that write access is allowed for IUSR_*.

[Duncan]

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 36318771 bytes) in /home/forum/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1298

How to fix?

[iojam]

Hello,

try to increase memory_limit setting in PHP configuration.

[popowich]

Hello,

I have had this product installed since the start of my forum, and then purchased and installed vBSEO today.

Am I supposed to uninstall this product after installing vBSEO to avoid a conflict?

-Raymond

[Lizard King]

Hello Raymond ,

You should have them both installed.

[Sherrie]

Hello,

Thank you for providing this, but is there a particular way that the extra urls text file is meant to be laid out? as I have been getting a mismatched tag error in sitemap 1 file, ever since adding urls to the extra-urls.txt. I couldn't find any reference on how this was to be done so I assumed that I just add them in sitemap format which is what I did. Before adding extra urls everything appeared to be working fine.

Thanks for your help.

[HasanSheriff]

HasanSheriff,

looks like permissions were not set correctly, please re-check that write access is allowed for IUSR_*.

I have allowed "Full Controll" to the vbseo_sitemap folder, but no luck. Same error messages.
Anything else I could try?

[HasanSheriff]

Got it working. I had to allow "Everyone" Full Control.
Still have 3 issues:

1. The file created is located in /vbseo_sitemap/data when it needs to be created in the root of the web. I tried changing this value in the AdminCP, but didn't save in the root.
2. The file is a .gz when it needs to be an uncompressed sitemap.xml
3. The results show [create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 1 [3,112.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]. The conpressed file is 2Kb and uncompressed 30Kb. Why is this when the report says 3.1MB?

Thanks.

[iojam]

1. files are stored in data/ folder, but are rewritten with rewrite rules in .htaccess file.

2. gzip compressed sitemaps are supported by Google.

3. what is the size of sitemap_1.xml.gz?

[HasanSheriff]

1. files are stored in data/ folder, but are rewritten with rewrite rules in .htaccess file.

2. gzip compressed sitemaps are supported by Google.

3. what is the size of sitemap_1.xml.gz?

Thanks for the reply.
1. I'm running IIS7 on Srv 08. How do I proceed?
2. Noted that there is no need to decompress.
3. 1.2Kb. Uncompressed it is 30Kb. But when I open the decompressed file, it looks ok. My concern is that the report says 3.11MB: [create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 1 [3,112.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)].

[iojam]

Hello,

1. you should use rewrite rules for IIS (check installation instructions), ISAPI_Rewrite module is required

3. This is a PHP memory usage report, it's not related to file size.

[eglyntine]

Hi all,

I have been trying to get this to work for a couple of days now. I've looked all over but I haven't seen the particular error that I'm getting so I thought I would brave the wild and finally ask.

I uploaded all of the files in the upload dir to my forum root, changed the data folder perm to 0777.

I already have an .htaccess file so I added the required lines to it so it looks like this:


Redirect /forums/ http://www.houseofparents.com/
AddHandler php5-script .php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
I installed the product and left the settings pretty much at default. I don't have vbSEO installed so that was changed to "No".

Everything looks great but when I try to generate the sitemap I get the following error:


[homepage] [5,819.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [5,819.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 12, total threads: 189, pages: 4 [5,819.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 21, total threads: 1377, pages: 28 [5,819.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 105, total threads: 40, pages: 1 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 106, total threads: 9, pages: 1 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 20, total threads: 173, pages: 4 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 118, total threads: 34, pages: 1 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 45, total threads: 23, pages: 1 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 15, total threads: 125, pages: 3 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 16, total threads: 457, pages: 10 [5,820.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 17, total threads: 54, pages: 2 [5,820.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 18, total threads: 15, pages: 1 [5,820.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 14, total threads: 190, pages: 4 [5,820.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 38, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [5,821.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 121, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [5,821.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 42, total threads: 3, pages: 1 [5,821.7Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 41, total threads: 91, pages: 2 [5,821.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 43, total threads: 3, pages: 1 [5,822.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 40, total threads: 66, pages: 2 [5,822.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 6, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [5,823.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 82, total threads: 8, pages: 1 [5,823.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 125, total threads: 60, pages: 2 [5,823.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 27, total threads: 84, pages: 2 [5,823.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 24, total threads: 252, pages: 6 [5,824.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 99, total threads: 8, pages: 1 [5,825.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 25, total threads: 43, pages: 1 [5,825.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 31, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [5,825.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 37, total threads: 31, pages: 1 [5,826.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 36, total threads: 32, pages: 1 [5,826.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 47, total threads: 35, pages: 1 [5,826.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 56, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [5,826.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 57, total threads: 55, pages: 2 [5,826.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 127, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [5,827.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 53, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [5,827.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread [5,827.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [5,850.5Kb mem used] [6s (+6s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #2 [5,850.4Kb mem used] [6s (+0s)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_2.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [5,853.6Kb mem used] [9s (+3s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #3 [5,853.5Kb mem used] [9s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] member [6,113.4Kb mem used] [11s (+2s)]
[SECTION START] polls [5,876.6Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] blogs [5,900.6Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] albums [5,921.3Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] groups [5,921.4Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] tags [5,921.5Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
[addon module] vbseo_sm_downloads.php [5,921.5Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
Database Error
No other error codes or anything are displayed so I don't even know where to begin to look. But I do get this generated to my e-mail afterwards:


Database error in vBulletin 3.7.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT id,name FROM file_cats ORDER BY `order`;

MySQL Error : Table 'mydatabasename.file_cats' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Saturday, December 13th 2008 @ 11:25:18 PM
Error Date : Saturday, December 13th 2008 @ 11:25:30 PM
Script : ../vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php (http://www.houseofparents.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php)
Referrer : ../vbseo_sitemap/index.php?rlist=true (http://www.houseofparents.com/vbseo_sitemap/index.php?rlist=true)
IP Address : xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version :
Do I need to manually create this table or is there something else that I've failed to setup that wasn't in the instructions?

I'm running vBulletin 3.7.4 PL. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. I'd really like to have this Add-on for my site. :)

Thanks,

[Sherrie]

Hello,

Thank you for providing this, but is there a particular way that the extra urls text file is meant to be laid out? as I have been getting a mismatched tag error in sitemap 1 file, ever since adding urls to the extra-urls.txt. I couldn't find any reference on how this was to be done so I assumed that I just add them in sitemap format which is what I did. Before adding extra urls everything appeared to be working fine.

Thanks for your help.

Could someone please help me with this because I do not know what I am doing wrong.

When I open up the sitemap_1 file it generates my forum root url first and then it follows with this:

<url>
<loc><url></loc>
<priority>1</priority>
<lastmod>2008-12-14T10:45:24+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>

From then on it is all out of wack until it goes back to my forum urls.

Here is an example of the format that I have used in the extra-urls.txt:

<url>
<loc></loc>
<priority>1.00</priority>
<lastmod>2007-10-30</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>

I am sure this is something really simple and would appreciate any help.

Thank you

[Sherrie]

Nevermind, I finally found the solution on your forums but now I am having a problem with google giving me sitemap errors for all but the last sitemap:

Sitemap file size error
Your Sitemap exceeds the maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing fewer URLs to meet the file size limit.

[Sherrie]

Okay I found a setting in the control panel to change the maximum urls which has fixed this issue.

cheers

[rock3radio]

Hi I'm having a problem. It works fine most of the time but is missing out a large number of my threads. They're controled by VbGeek's GARS system but surely that shouldn't be a problem? I also have vbSEO installed.

[iojam]

eglyntine,

you should remove all entries from "Add-ons" list option in case if you don't have corresponding modules installed.

rock3radio,

are those threads visible to guests?

[eglyntine]

It worked! Thanks so much! :)

[rock3radio]

HI iojam, yes they are both viewable and one can even be posted in by unregistered users. I've checked all my sitemaps and none are listed. I even tried changing the permissions to basically a free for all then generating the sitemap but still no luck.

[DestekForumu]

thank you ,,

[joyboy2001]

great stuff !!
Thanks

[smootheagle]

Thanks again!

[Divvy]

Hi mates,

In Scheduled Task what I need to put in Varname?
Can someone help me?

Thank you

[iojam]

Hello,

with the latest version a scheduled task should be created automatically, please check the list of task and search for "sitemap" in it.

[CP,]

my vbseo sitemap has been working for years.

However my yahoo ping has failed today and yesterday, what can i do about this?

[Divvy]

In Scheduled Task what I need to put in Varname?
Can someone help me?

[jiteshdubey11]

thanx bro marked as install............

[mmoore5553]

okay i have installed this ...how do i check if it is wokring. i seen it says google bot downloaded it but if i look in google and see if my site has a sitemap ..it only shows add ? is there something else i was suppose to do ? sorry for such the newbie requests ....

[iojam]

CP,

sometimes Yahoo fails to receive the ping, I wouldn't worry about that and recommend to manually submit it to yahoo here: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

Divvy,

you can enter "vbseo_sitemap_task" as varname.


mmoore5553,

you should manually submit sitemap_index.xml.gz in Google Webmaster Account to check that's parsed correctly.

[jiteshdubey11]

prob solved thanx

veenuisthebest

[veenuisthebest]

There's no problem in your sitemap. Infact, this is how sitemap looks.

can u plz explain me this

CHMOD 777 the 'forum-root/vbseo_sitemap/data/' folder



This just means that you need to give write permissions to data folder, which you had already given I suppose, that is why your sitemap is created successfully.

[jiteshdubey11]

thanx bro
but no such file /forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz is created
can u tell me how togive write permission to data folder..........

[veenuisthebest]

check it once mere bhai! It is created:

http://devilsfunhouse.org/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz

[jiteshdubey11]

thank u bhai it wasnt at the time of posting :o

[ATVTorture]

I'm trying to figure out how to make vbseo put the sitemap on the domain root rather than in the forumsroot/vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder but can't quite seem to figure it out.

My guess is that it has something to do with the rewrite url in the .htaccess file but I don't know what to change it toto make it work correctly.

Currently I have an htaccess file in my domain root, forums root and the forumsroot/vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder but they all say the same thing. I'm guessing one of them needs to be changed or removed.

This is what they all 3 say:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

I see in the admin panel there's a setting for Sitemap Files URL, but putting my domain url in there doesn't change anything once I re-run it. As a matter of fact, the cron runs, says done, and it now hasn't updated the file anywhere apparently. Well, I don't see a sitemap file on the root anyway. however, if I type this url in my browser: http://www.mydomain.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz, a current sitemap pulls up. I'm confused.

Can someone give me some help?

Thanks!

[ATVTorture]

OK, I think I have this figured out and it does indeed appear to be working although a "sitempa" file isn't being generated on the root.

[veenuisthebest]

OK, I think I have this figured out and it does indeed appear to be working although a "sitempa" file isn't being generated on the root.
Yes, it DOES work, that way only.

The .htaccess in forums root is taking care of sitemap url being called from forum root despite it actually resides in data folder.

[nesta1]

plz help for error after run genrator

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 7077888) (tried to allocate 12734714 bytes) in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1298

[veenuisthebest]

plz help for error after run genrator

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 7077888) (tried to allocate 12734714 bytes) in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1298
1. Delete the .gz files from your vbseo_sitemap/data folder manually.
2. Disable the Yahoo Text sitemap option in sitemap settings.
3. Run sitemap again.

[MuTheMatrix]

exelent job, thanks a lot.

[Tetractys]

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, REMOVED LINK and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

:confused:

[Danial_Faster]

Please update to 3.8.0

[Lizard King]

vBulletin 3.8 is still on RC stages. Once it is updated to gold a new version will be released.

[iojam]

Tetractys,

please make sure that mod_rewrite is working on your host: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/

[oaddah]

thank you

[Forum-Germany]

Hallo. :)

What must I do to their own pages to integrate. I have, for example, a page named "impressum.php" from the search engine is not found. what should I do?

[veenuisthebest]

Hallo. :)

What must I do to their own pages to integrate. I have, for example, a page named "impressum.php" from the search engine is not found. what should I do?
Add it to extra-urls.txt manually.

[Forum-Germany]

Thanks!

ok and what must exactly look like?

www.My-New-Forum/Impressum.php

how should I add? can you give me an example?

[cedivad]

Hi there! I have a little thing to ask: can i edit this product for personal use? I will not redistribuite it.

Thanks for the reply!

[iojam]

Forum-Germany,

check details here: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/easy-follow-guide-implementing-extra-urls-txt-25201/

[Forum-Germany]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[nascartr]

I get a database error every night when the vBSeo Sitemap Generator for Google is ran. The database error I get is...

Invalid SQL:

SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM groupmessage
WHERE groupid='1';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'groupid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Monday, December 29th 2008 @ 02:01:24 AM
Error Date : Monday, December 29th 2008 @ 02:01:29 AM
Script : http://diecastcrazy.com/community/cron.php?rand=1230534083 (http://diecastcrazy.com/community/cron.php?rand=1230534083)
Referrer : http://diecastcrazy.com/community/forums.php (http://diecastcrazy.com/community/forums.php)
IP Address : 70.18.137.26
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Does anyone have an idea what might be causing that? Thanks in advance.

[iojam]

Please try this: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/links-not-working-after-site-transfer-28287/#post176693

[nascartr]

Thanks, that worked!

[Tetractys]

Tetractys,

please make sure that mod_rewrite is working on your host: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/

Tested: rewrite is on and working.

[Keesa]

In order to use Google Sitemap in Webmaster tools, it is asking for my sitemap location...

I have entered

http://www.mysite.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/datasitemap_index.xml.gz

URL restricted by robots.txt
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

but Google hates me. I have no robots.txt in place at this time.

Am I using the correct location for my sitemap?

I wonder if I can even ask this here.

[europez]

I have installed the mod and it's generating reports and everything looks fine.
But when I try to click on the sitemap_index.xml.gz file I get this error:

Access Forbidden or Not found

I only see the sitemap_index.xml.gz in the /vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder.

I think I have done something wrong in the vBSEO Sitemap Settings.

If anyone could help me - It would be nice :confused:

Thanks

PS I have tested the mod_rewrite on my server - it is working.....

[iojam]

Schnee,

you should submit http://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz


europez,

did you create .htaccess file as described?

[europez]

Hi iojam

Thanks for getting back to me.

I have my forum in the root dir.

I have submitted: www.mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I have uploaded the .htaccess in my root, with this inside:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

But when I click on my Google Sitemap Index URL (www.mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz)
I get Object not found!.

I don't see any sitemap_index.xml.gz in my root directory. Is this correct?

Hope you have time to get back to me on this..

[wuelfi71]

I installed the update a few days ago and selected "Yes" to include tag pages & social groups pages. Nevertheless the report shows Tag URL's & Social Groups URL's = 0.

Page update frequency for tags is daily (priority 0.8), for social groups weekly (priority 0.3)
And yes, there're tags in the included forums ;-)

What do i do wrong or does this feature need vBSEO?

[pappocapo]

Thank you. Installed.

[MTGDarkness]

I installed it, but when I go to (directory)/vbseo_sitemap/, I get a 500 server error. Why?

[iojam]

europez,

make sure that mod_rewrite is supported on your host: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/

MTGDarkness,

don't you have .htaccess file in vbseo_sitemap/ folder?

[europez]

Hi iojam

mod_rewrite is supported :)

No I don't have a .htaccess file in vbseo_sitemap/ folder
Witch .htaccess file should that be?

Thanks

[MTGDarkness]

The htaccess in the vbseo folder was not mentioned anywhere... That would probably be my error. I'll try that. Err... Which htaccess file?

[havard20009]

hi
i crate site map after that i recive Database error
[SECTION START] forumdisplay archived [3,898.2Kb mem used] [2s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread archived [3,963.9Kb mem used] [2s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] member [3,971.5Kb mem used] [2s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] polls [4,261.7Kb mem used] [2s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] blogs [4,278.0Kb mem used] [2s (+0s)]
Database error
and when i add site map in google i recive again erro from google in status:Errors
Parsing error
We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting

what can i do for resolve this problem ?

[iojam]

If you have .htaccess file in vbseo_sitemap/ folder, that might cause error 500, you should remove that file then (it's only requried in forums folder).

havard20009,

try to disable "Include blog URLs" option.

[havard20009]

i removed .htaccess from vbseo_sitemap/data
but i have db problem after Run Sitemap Generator
and how about google problem ?

[MTGDarkness]

If you have .htaccess file in vbseo_sitemap/ folder, that might cause error 500, you should remove that file then (it's only requried in forums folder).


Oh, that's what you mean? Cuz I don't have it there. What then?

[daydie]

its not making the XML file. Help please.

[Fanny Annie]

Well I've installed it and if I can anyone can! :D

[iojam]

havard20009, MTGDarkness

please check your server's error log to find out details on the error.

daydie,

please provide more details on the issue you get.

[daydie]

well everything runs fine and says its created it. But it hasnt made the XML file.

[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 16322 [5,996.0Kb mem used] [11s (+2s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #2 [5,996.0Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 1 [5,998.5Kb mem used] [12s (+1s)]
Sitemap has been created. Click here to return [5,998.6Kb mem used] [14s (+2s)]

[iojam]

Did you set 0777 permissions to vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder? Don't you have sitemap files in data/ folder?

[therogueforums]

Greetings. I know this is something trivial, and an easy fix, I just can't think of what is wrong at the moment.

I just erased all my old sitemaps, etc, from the sever, as well as Google, starting fresh.

I just installed vB SEO, as well as the new version of the sitemap generator. However, when testing if it works or not, I get a 403 Forbidden message.

What do I need to change, because if I can't access it, I highly doubt Google can.

[iojam]

Hello,

make sure that you did not change permissions for vbseo_sitemap/ folder (0777 should be set ONLY for vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder).

[AtomicFPS]

Hello, For some reason my sitemaps don't get generated and when i run them manually, i receive the following error:

Warning: fopen(/home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 769

Warning: fopen(/home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/urllist.txt.gz) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 775

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 786

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 797

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 800

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 797

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 800

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/atomicfp/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 797

I get a few hundred lines of this :| Do you know whats wrong?

[iojam]

You should set 0777 permissions for vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder.

[therogueforums]

Okay, now I'm in. Followed directions to the letter. I can access it, etc. Can't actually run the generator, memory always gets exhausted. No access to the .ini file.

At any rate, the cron made a few sitemaps for me. However, when I submit to Google, it says file not found. Ok, so I'm thinking it has something to do with the .htaccess. No probs. i'll just move the bad boy to the root.

NOPE.

Still, file not found. bullspit, it's right there! heh. So, please, tell me, what am I doing wrong?

[AtomicFPS]

You should set 0777 permissions for vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder.

I've done that and I still get the error.

[Sym0n]

Hiya,
I've been using this mod for ages now but last week my host decided to transfer my account to another server and since then I've had issues.

I have .htaccess in my domain root with the following because the domain, and the parked .net domain, is set to not use the 'www.' sub
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.net/$1 [R=permanent,L]and as per the vBSEO instructions for this mod the following .htaccess file in my forums root
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]All was working well before the transfer, or at least if it wasn't no one was complaining lol, but now when anyone tries to go directly to www.domain.com/forum/ (http://www.domain.com/forum/) the www. sub isn't being removed. Yet any other area of the site it is. :confused:

I've tried everything I can think of and all I have discovered is that if I delete the vBSEO .htaccess from the forum root the RewriteRule for removing the www. sub works perfectly.

Can anyone help as this is starting to drive me insane. :(

Thanks

Sy

[iojam]

therogueforums,

make sure that mod_rewrite is supported: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/


AtomicFPS,

if you have any files inside data/ folder, try to set 0666 permissions for them.


Sym0n,

put this to the top of forums/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.net/forums/$1 [R=permanent,L]

[rbecking]

Does this work in 3.8?

[aciurczak]

Having similar issue as Sym0n (though I am forcing a www, and he's suppressing it), and the suggested fix didn't appear to work. I have a large number of domains pointing to same site, so my forced www code in my main htaccess file (root directory, not forums root) is this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

With the stock recommended vbseo htaccess config in the /forums directory, the www. forcing does not work, and URL's remain at domain.com/forums instead of www.domain.com/forums.

I tried adding this to the top of the htaccess in the forums directory:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/forums/$1 [R=301,L]

but that didn't work and caused a server error. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[aciurczak]

I tried a more simple pairing of www. forcing to see if that would work, but I couldn't get it to work either:

in main htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

and in /forums htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

What happens in that case is quite weird, it rewrites it to:

http://www.domain.com/forums//var/chroot/home/content/x/x/x/username/html/forums

(some of that has been masked slightly, but the format is exactly that)

I'd love to get this to work, so any suggestions would be appreciated. If I can't get it to work, I was thinking about deep-sixing all of the htaccess masking for the sitemap data files, can I use a cron job to just move them after they are created into the root directory? If so, which files do i need to move?

[elmark]

Thanks its work.

Marek

[Sym0n]

Sym0n,

put this to the top of forums/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.net/forums/$1 [R=permanent,L]
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately adding that is causing a Redirect Loop error to occur and making the site unusable. :confused:

Is there anything I can try?

[aciurczak]

Found a solution that works. This is for those that force www:

/.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

and /forums/.htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

[durbah]

Can I use the line had to v- 3.8.0 without any problems

Thanks

[Tetractys]

Tetractys,

please make sure that mod_rewrite is working on your host: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/

Tested: rewrite is on and working. .htaccess issue?

[Pokerbanter]

Complete n00b question...

How do I do this?

B. Enable rewriting via .htaccess (vBSEO Users skip this step):

[IRANCITY]

is it work for 3.8 ?
i install but i give very err

[rmerc]

installed, thanks

[iojam]

Tetractys,

try to add "RewriteBase /forums/" line in .htaccess (where /forums/ is your forums folder name)


Pokerbanter,

you should create file named ".htaccess" in forums folder with content as described in installation instructions.


IRANCITY,

it might be required to apply this modification: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/links-not-working-after-site-transfer-28287/#post176693

[mindcry]

Is there a way to purge all of the reports? I still have reports from 2006...

[iojam]

You can define VBSEO_SM_PRUNE setting in vbseo_sitemap_config.php file to automatically remove old logs.

[mulesnx]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/09/siteindex.xsd">
<sitemap>
<loc>http://forums.macgenius.tv/sitemap_1.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2009-01-15T04:10:58+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>

</sitemapindex>

It seems there is an error when running the sitemap on my site. I am running vb 3.8 on a subdomain so it is forums.domain.com. It shows that there is nothing on my sitemap, but there are posts in the forum.

[mulesnx]

Also, is there anyway to use this with feedburner?

[iojam]

The URLs are included in sitemap_1.xml.gz.

[Sym0n]

Found a solution that works. This is for those that force www:

/.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] and /forums/.htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
Does anyone have a working solution for those of us that strip the www. subdomain?

I've tried this, but with the changes to strip the www. sub, but it's unfortunately still giving me a redirect loop error. :(

Can anyone from vBSEO, iojam, suggest anything else to try, as it appears to be directly related to the .htaccess for this mod?

Ta

Sy

[aciurczak]

Sy -

Go to this forum:

http://forum.modrewrite.com

Sign up and post your issue in the new topics forum (new users can only post in that section until they are approved). Post a link in your question to my similar question:

http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?t=23736

and I'm sure they will suggest a working htaccess solution for you very quickly. When they do, post it up back here so the next schmo (after us 2 schmo's) don't have to search the internet and spend hours on what is at its core just a simple question.

[a32guy]

Does this work with vB 3.8?

[iojam]

Sym0n,

in order to redirect www to non-www domain, the code will looks like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]and:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]
detailed description can be found here: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/how-setup-www-yourdomain-com-yourdomain-com-www-vs-non-www-htaccess-301-redirects-21501/


a32guy,

there is a compatibility update here: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/links-not-working-after-site-transfer-28287/#post176693

[john h]

When the sitemap is generated by the task manager the urls in the extra-urls.txt are not included in the sitemap.

If I manually create the sitemap by clicking on the link in the ACP the extra-urls.txt file is included.

Why is this so?

[iojam]

Please try this: http://www.vbseo.com/f4/what-should-i-do-these-pages-help-please-27364/#post171239

[fabioski]

How to disinstall the product?

[globalmoney]

After renovation vBulletin with versions 3.7 before version 3.8, at request http://forum.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz, IE gives that can not display the page. Too most in google i.e. error is given when download the file.
В than can be a problem and as her(its) correct?

P.S. google gives the necessary mistake:

Mistake of the analysis
We have not been able to read your Sitemap. Possible, he contains not recognized record for us. Check its Sitemap before that, what send him(it) again.

[john h]

Please try this: http://www.vbseo.com/f4/what-should-i-do-these-pages-help-please-27364/#post171239

That fixed it :)

Thanks!

[iojam]

fabioski,

uninstall product in vB admincp, remove vbseo_sitemap/ folder.

globalmoney,

try to regenerate sitemap.

[globalmoney]

globalmoney,

try to regenerate sitemap.

Thank you, all have earned orderly. :)

[Nadeemjp]

this is a wonderful modification.
i was just wondering if it is possible to launch this officially in 3.8 as well so that i dont have to come in here again.

it is working though with 3.8 @ my forums.

[Nadeemjp]

this is a wonderful modification.
i was just wondering if it is possible to launch this officially in 3.8 as well so that i dont have to come in here again.

it is working though with 3.8 @ my forums.

[draver]

What was the solution of this problem?




i see this in my sitemaps for blog entries
blogs/%user_name%/-a.html

[lowlight]

Wow I have over 200 sitemap files (using the default of 20,000 per file)

Is this horribly inefficient? Should I uninclude more forums and page types?

[lowlight]

I get a 404 error, even though the sitemap generates. I have the .htaccess set up correctly, any advice?

[iojam]

lowlight,

make sure that your server supports mod_rewrite: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/

[lowlight]

Wow, it's not enabled. I just started working on this site, I never assumed they didn't have mod_rewrite! I should have checked :lol:

[aryshi]

after upgrading vb to 3.8.0

i got this error , need help


Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 45613056) (tried to allocate 10223616 bytes) ***/vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1295

[bollie]

Wen i run sitemap

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM groupmessage
WHERE groupid='3';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'groupid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, January 21st 2009 @ 05:03:59 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, January 21st 2009 @ 05:04:04 PM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxx/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxx/vbseo_sitemap/index.php
IP Address : xxxxxxxxxxx
Username : Niet geregistreerd
Classname : vB_Database

[Lizard King]

after upgrading vb to 3.8.0



i got this error , need help





Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 45613056) (tried to allocate 10223616 bytes) ***/vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1295



Try disabling yahoo format text based sitemap generator , manually delete all your existing sitemaps and then re generate sitemap files. Or you can also increase your php memory_limit

Wen i run sitemap



Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:



Invalid SQL:



SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate

FROM groupmessage

WHERE groupid='3';



MySQL Error : Unknown column 'groupid' in 'where clause'

Error Number : 1054

Request Date : Wednesday, January 21st 2009 @ 05:03:59 PM

Error Date : Wednesday, January 21st 2009 @ 05:04:04 PM

Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxx/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php

Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxx/vbseo_sitemap/index.php

IP Address : xxxxxxxxxxx

Username : Niet geregistreerd

Classname : vB_Database

find this in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file:
$tcount = $db->query_first("
SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "groupmessage
WHERE groupid='$rrow[groupid]'
");
replace with
$tcount = $db->query_first("
SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "groupmessage AS groupmessage
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "discussion AS discussion ON (groupmessage.discussionid = discussion.discussionid)
WHERE discussion.groupid='$rrow[groupid]'
");

[aryshi]

thanx Lizard King

glad to see it work again :)

[joe1989]

This working with 3.8?

[globalmoney]

This working with 3.8?

Yes, working. :)

[joe1989]

I'm sorry this might be a stupid question...

In the readme file it says to only edit the settings if you "know what you're doing" because they are set to be optimized for most boards. Well, I'm not experienced at all in this area, so I left them as is. But, out of curiosity, I wanted to look and see what kinds of options there were. The first one is "VBSeo Installed?" and the default answer is yes. Do I have that installed? I have not purchased VBSeo, so would I change it to no? It seems like I should, but the description of the question talks about static CRUs and things, and I haven't the slightest idea what any of those are. All I have is this product that this thread relates to - the free one. I did not pay for VBSeo. Should I select Yes (default) or change to no???

Thanks!

[Lizard King]

If you donot have vBSEO installed , then you should choose that option set to No.

[Das UndergrounD]

I get the following error:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT t_threadid,count(*) as cnt
FROM vb_linkback
GROUP BY t_threadid;

MySQL Error : Table 'linkback' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

[iojam]

Das UndergrounD,

if you have vBSEO installed, make sure that you have the latest version (v3.2.0) xml product file in vB admincp.

[lowlight]

I'm getting the following error from Google, after I submit the sitemap:

Your Sitemap exceeds the maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing fewer URLs to meet the file size limit

This is using 50,000 entries per page (we have about 6 million URLs to index)

[PakFuse]

Is there any update on VB 3.8 for this MOD????

[Das UndergrounD]

Das UndergrounD,

if you have vBSEO installed, make sure that you have the latest version (v3.2.0) xml product file in vB admincp.

I have installed the latest version (3.2.0)

[FiMeTi]

Great! Works fine on my vb 3.8 gold.

Thx very much.

[lowlight]

I'm getting the following error from Google, after I submit the sitemap:

Your Sitemap exceeds the maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing fewer URLs to meet the file size limit

This is using 50,000 entries per page (we have about 6 million URLs to index)
Anyone?

[bigtree]

I must be stupit or somthing. My browser shows no download link to this. Can someone please tell me where it is?

[bigtree]

skip that, I found it.

[lowlight]

Hi, I am getting this odd error, after upgrading to php5

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 148373504 bytes) in /home/revscene/www/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1298

Before you tell me to increase the php memory limit, please notice that it is set to 512MB already, and it is only trying to allocate 141.5 MB to run the script.

[iojam]

Please try to:
- disable text sitemap option
- remove existing *.gz files from data/ folder
- regenerate sitemap

[hscorp]

i have 3.8 but it doesn't extract forums or topic links

see the last report

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4373/77985750sl9.jpg

any help? thanks

[lowlight]

Please try to:
- disable text sitemap option
- remove existing *.gz files from data/ folder
- regenerate sitemap
Thanks.

Do you know what the max size per file is for Google? Mine are all around 4MB, but are being rejected by Google.

[cooltechie]

Looking at the report, it shows the google index url pointing to http://www.example.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz but if I look in the same directory using FTP, it's not there. Do I need to change a setting somewhere?

[iojam]

hscorp,

are your subforums open for guest visitors? (otherwise search engines will not be able to view them, and they are automatically excluded from sitemap)

lowlight,

maximum file size if 10Mb. What exactly is the error message you get?

cooltechie,

files are stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, but you can access them via forums root using rewrite rule entered in .htaccess file.

[hscorp]

are your subforums open for guest visitors? (otherwise search engines will not be able to view them, and they are automatically excluded from sitemap)

I'm using mod that allow search engine to access the forum and prevent the guests

so how can i make the sitemap include the links?

regards

[O'NEAL]

Hi;
When I Run Sitemap I gives me Error;

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT *
FROM vbthread AS thread
WHERE forumid = 3
AND visible = 1
AND pollid > 0;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Thursday, January 29th 2009 @ 12:09:58 AM
Error Date : Thursday, January 29th 2009 @ 12:23:50 AM
Script : http://www..com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
Referrer : http://www..com/vbseo_sitemap/
IP Address : 88.231.140.146
Username : Kayıtsız
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Please Help.
Thanks...

[cooltechie]

cooltechie,

files are stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, but you can access them via forums root using rewrite rule entered in .htaccess file.

Are these part of the instructions? I'm sure I followed everything but can't figure out why it would point there when in fact the files are stored elsewhere. The bots didn't make one download which was why I looked there. Kindly point me in the right direction.

[joe1989]

In the AdminCP settings for this mod, one of the options is "Max URLs in Sitemap Files." In the description it says "Google allows no more than 50,000 URLs per file." What happens if my site starts getting over 50,000 URL's?? If I leave the default setting at 20,000 what will happen when I get to 20,000? Does it just start making a new sitemap file, or do I lose old links in the sitemap?

I hope that question makes sense...

Thanks!

[iojam]

hscorp,

that is cloaking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking), that's why those URLs are not included in sitemap.


O'NEAL,

you should increase wait_timeout setting in MySQL configuration.


cooltechie,
> Are these part of the instructions?
yes:
B. Enable rewriting via .htaccess
1. Upload the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap .htaccess file (located in the 'htaccess' folder) to your forum root.
....


joe1989,

it will just split sitemap on multiple files in this case.

[joe1989]

it will just split sitemap on multiple files in this case.

So all the links will still be found by the crawler bots?

[cooltechie]

cooltechie,
> Are these part of the instructions?
yes:



I triple checked and verified that the line is there. Since I had an existing .htaccess, I simply cut and pasted the line you have in the htaccess.txt file. I can access the report details but not the linked gz file.

edit: I renamed my htaccess and uploaded the one you have and it works. My guess is the bad bots list is conflicting with yours.

[niteflyer32]

I looked but didn't see this question. What's the advantage, or is there an advantage, of the paid vbSEO over this SEO plug in?

Thanks

[iojam]

joe1989,

yes, exactly.


cooltechie,

please post your complete .htaccess so that we can find the conflicting directives.


niteflyer32,

this mod just creates XML sitemap for your forum, while vBSEO is a complete SEO add-on for vBulletin (including URL rewrites, links consolidation etc): http://www.vbseo.com

[Chadi]

I manually ran the task and got this:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM groupmessage
WHERE groupid='1';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'groupid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, January 30th 2009 @ 09:45:06 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 30th 2009 @ 09:45:09 PM
Script : http://www.talkjesus.com/xxxxx/cronadmin.php?do=runcron&cronid=56
Referrer : http://www.talkjesus.com/xxxxx/cronadmin.php?do=modify
IP Address : xxxxx
Username : Chad
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community

[iojam]

Check this please: http://www.vbseo.com/f67/error-during-run-sitemap-generator-30350/#post190403

[VargTimmen]

Hi,

do I need vbSEO for this Mod?

Greetings,
Benny

[iojam]

No, vBSEO product is not required to run "vBSEO Sitemap Generator".

[Sean James]

Im getting the error in revision history step 7 as above.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT t_threadid,count(*) as cnt
FROM linkback
GROUP BY t_threadid;

MySQL Error : Table 'MYDBNAME.linkback' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Tuesday, February 3rd 2009 @ 02:37:52 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, February 3rd 2009 @ 02:37:52 AM


Ive been away for a few months and noticed when checking my sitemaps that i have not generated a sitemap since may last year

[iojam]

Are you running vBSEO as well? If yes, you need v3.2.0 or greater to use "Smart priority" option in sitemap generator.

[ATVTorture]

When our cron job runs automatically in the middle of the night to update the sitemap, it will get say 20,000 URLs generated. However, when we run it manually from scheduled tasks, it will generate an additional 4000-5000 URLs for a total of somewhere between 24,000 and 25,000. It's random how many additional it will get from the previous scheduled run but it's always in the thousands of new URLs.

What could possibly be the cause of this sillyness?

Thanks!
Buster

[iojam]

You should not run it manually in Scheduled tasks manager since that executes it with admin privileges and links to private subforums are included in sitemap as a result. You can manually create sitemap in vbseo_sitemap/ interface though.

[ATVTorture]

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the tip. Re-ran it the way you suggested to get it updated.

I have another question. I noticed in a lot forums that many people submit multiple sitemaps for one domain URL like sitemap_1, sitemap_2, sitemap_3, etc.. What is the purpose of this and are they getting a whole differnet set of URLs?

Thanks!
Buster

[iojam]

You should only submit sitemap_index.xml.gz - it includes links to all your sitemap files (sitemap_X.xml.gz)

[ATVTorture]

Well when I look in that file, all it shows is sitemap_1.xml.gz. So what's the difference? I guess I don't understand the purpose of multiple sitemap files. I also don't see what generates multiple ones since the sitemap generator only creates one by default.

Is there some advantage to multiple ones and if so, what do the differnet ones point to differently than just one?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Buster

[iojam]

In case if you have many URLs vBSEO Sitemap Generator will separate them on multiple file (default setting is 20,000 URLs max per file).

[nca]

I keep running the generate link from the control panel and it says that everything ran fine. But when I go through FTP to the site the files it said it created are nowhere to be found.

Here is the output it gives me:


[homepage] [4,875.7Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [4,875.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 4, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [4,875.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 3, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [4,894.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 5, total threads: 409, pages: 21 [4,894.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 6, total threads: 97, pages: 5 [4,896.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 7, total threads: 93, pages: 5 [4,899.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 8, total threads: 46, pages: 3 [4,900.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 9, total threads: 83, pages: 5 [4,902.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 10, total threads: 110, pages: 6 [4,903.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 11, total threads: 130, pages: 7 [4,905.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 12, total threads: 85, pages: 5 [4,907.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 13, total threads: 35, pages: 2 [4,909.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 14, total threads: 197, pages: 10 [4,910.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 15, total threads: 16, pages: 1 [4,913.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 16, total threads: 29, pages: 2 [4,917.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 17, total threads: 56, pages: 3 [4,917.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 18, total threads: 119, pages: 6 [4,919.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread [4,921.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[archive homepage] [5,037.5Kb mem used] [3s (+3s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay archived [5,038.4Kb mem used] [3s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] member [5,048.7Kb mem used] [3s (+0s)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 25000 [4,905.4Kb mem used] [3s (+1s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #2 [4,905.3Kb mem used] [3s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] polls [5,115.4Kb mem used] [4s (+1s)]
[SECTION START] blogs [5,134.0Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] albums [5,136.7Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] groups [5,136.8Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] tags [5,137.4Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_2.xml.gz, number of urls: 2410 [4,909.0Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #3 [4,908.9Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 2 [4,909.3Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]
Sitemap has been created. Click here to return [4,905.6Kb mem used] [4s (+0s)]




But again when I go looking for the sitemaps it said it created I cannot locate them. A click on the link to view the google and yahoo ones just gives a 404 error.



Here is my .htaccess file:


# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)

# to disable mod_rewrite functions.

# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in

# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.

RewriteEngine On



# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be

# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)

# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path

# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)

#RewriteBase /



#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com

#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]



RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)

RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

[iojam]

What exactly is your sitemap URL?
Try to change this line:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
to:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap/)

[nca]

It worked! :) thank you iojam!!

Now when I visit the forum in firefox there are no google adsense ads anywhere to be found. Would this sitemap generator affect the ads in the pages?

here the the forum:
http://forum.horseville.com

the is the page for example:
http://forum.horseville.com/intros/1506-new-youngster-here-any-suggestions.html
When viewed with IE it shows the ads, when viewed with firefox no ads are to be found.

[dholt]

will this work with 3.8.0

[buro9]

I manually ran the task and got this:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM groupmessage
WHERE groupid='1';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'groupid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, January 30th 2009 @ 09:45:06 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 30th 2009 @ 09:45:09 PM
Script : http://www.talkjesus.com/xxxxx/cronadmin.php?do=runcron&cronid=56
Referrer : http://www.talkjesus.com/xxxxx/cronadmin.php?do=modify
IP Address : xxxxx
Username : Chad
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community

Check this please: http://www.vbseo.com/f67/error-during-run-sitemap-generator-30350/#post190403

Solved my problem too... good work.

[steven.hartland]

First off the fix for vb 3.8.2 as the group changes break the base code:-

--- vbseo_sitemap_functions.php.orig 2009-02-06 14:57:36.000000000 +0000
+++ vbseo_sitemap_functions.php 2009-02-06 14:59:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@
$tcount = $db->query_first("
SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
- FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "groupmessage
- WHERE groupid='$rrow[groupid]'
+ FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "discussion d, " . TABLE_PREFIX . "groupmessage g
+ WHERE d.groupid='$rrow[groupid]'
+ AND g.discussionid = d.discussionid
");
$pcount = ceil($tcount['cnt']/$vboptions['vm_perpage']);


Next up we are getting a load of garbage in our sitemap even the zcat cant read the files:-

sh -c ' for i in *.gz; do echo $i; zcat $i | head; done' > 1
zcat: sitemap_21.xml.gz: trailing garbage ignored
zcat: sitemap_24.xml.gz: trailing garbage ignored
zcat: sitemap_27.xml.gz: trailing garbage ignored
zcat: sitemap_30.xml.gz: trailing garbage ignored
zcat: data stream error
zcat: sitemap_31.xml.gz: uncompress failed
zcat: data stream error
zcat: sitemap_34.xml.gz: uncompress failed
zcat: sitemap_36.xml.gz: trailing garbage ignored
zcat: data stream error
zcat: sitemap_37.xml.gz: uncompress failed
zcat: data stream error
zcat: sitemap_39.xml.gz: uncompress failed
zcat: sitemap_42.xml.gz: trailing garbage ignored
zcat: urllist.txt.gz: not in gzip format


Even some of the files that can be decompress are corrupt internally with invalid xml e.g. the data of the lastmod appearing in the url and missing close tags all over.

Has anyone seen this sort of corruption before?

We are running the following:-

PHP 5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Sep 18 2008 16:29:55)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
with Zend Extension Manager v1.2.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2007, by Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer v3.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007, by Zend Technologies

apache-2.2.8 Version 2.2 of Apache web server with prefork MPM.

FreeBSD loncore1.multiplay.co.uk 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #9: Mon Jun 30 17:43:02 BST 2008

[iojam]

steven.hartland,

try to downloads sitemap files via FTP (from vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder) and check if they are correct.

[steven.hartland]

Thanks for the suggestion iojam, I was already in the data dir when checking the compression with zcat.

I've done some more digging and its definitely something to do with the gzip compression turning that off in the config fixes the issue. We've not had any issues with standard gzip support on the forums, but something in the sitemap code seems to be triggering an issue with it.

After looking at the code which is only a few lines I can only conclude the issue is with the underlying php function. There are a number of bugs still open in php's bug tracker which may be the cause.

For the time being we will live with gzip off.

[DarkFaCe]

Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/cafedostlar.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

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Help me please

[iojam]

Do you have .html vBulletin package installed for your forum? If not you should have this in vbseo_sitemap_config.php file (which is default): define('VBSEO_PHP_EXT', 'php');

[DarkFaCe]

Thanks ioJam

[Sym0n]

Sym0n,

in order to redirect www to non-www domain, the code will looks like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]and:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]detailed description can be found here: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/how-setup-www-yourdomain-com-yourdomain-com-www-vs-non-www-htaccess-301-redirects-21501/

iojam, thanks that code worked. But my situation is slightly different in that I have two different domains (.com and .net) pointing to the same site and don't want them to rewrite the domain.

Sy -

Go to this forum:

http://forum.modrewrite.com

Sign up and post your issue in the new topics forum (new users can only post in that section until they are approved). Post a link in your question to my similar question:

http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?t=23736

and I'm sure they will suggest a working htaccess solution for you very quickly. When they do, post it up back here so the next schmo (after us 2 schmo's) don't have to search the internet and spend hours on what is at its core just a simple question.
aciurczak, cheers mate. I followed your advice and headed over to modrewrite.com. After just my initial post richardk nailed it in one and now it works perfectly.

In case anyone else requires the same thing:

root
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.+\.(example\.(com|net))$
RewriteRule .* http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

/forum/
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.+\.(example\.(com|net))$
RewriteRule .* http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^(urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?$ /forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$0 [L]

:D

Sy

[relaxiha]

please update for 3.8.1

[trickfly]

Yes please update for 3.8.1 !!!!

[howcome]

i have this installed and it is making vbseo links causing google to have not found url's

[dholt]

Works perfect in 3.8.1 I especially love the Site-map Reports page.

Eventually I'll get vbseo but for now this works great as it installed flawlessly and generate a pretty good site map as Google shows it's having no problems accessing the pages. very cool
Thanks again for the Great Free SEO Package :up:

[khurtsiya]

Hello everybody!

Downloaded and installed Sitemap Generator and manually started it by clicking "Run Sitemap Generator". Sitemap generated cuz I see report, but the link it shows in CP (Your Google Sitemap Index URL: kiev.com.ua/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz) is not working...

Any ideas why?

[iojam]

Make sure that you created .htaccess file as described in installation instructions.

[khurtsiya]

Installation instruction note says

vBSEO Users skip this step

So I have .htaccess file in forum root, and not in site root (homepage is CMPS).

And one more question - why I have no links in the bottom of the forum like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 etc... (each number is a link). What makes that links - vBSEO or Sitemap Generator?

TIA

Michael

[iojam]

Try to modify .htaccess file:
find:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)replace with:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
And one more question - why I have no links in the bottom of the forum like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 etc... (each number is a link). What makes that links - vBSEO or Sitemap Generator?
This is vBSEO's feature (check "Footer Archive Links" option in vBSEO CP).

[khurtsiya]

Try to modify .htaccess file:
find:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)replace with:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)

This is vBSEO's feature (check "Footer Archive Links" option in vBSEO CP).

Great! All is working now. Thanks!

I found that in archive I have my forumlist and if you click on any forum it takes you to nowhere but this same page. Is it correct or I break smth?

[iojam]

It's related to vBSEO, not sitemap generator: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/archive-sitemap-29024/#post181527

[havard20009]

hello

i receive db erro after site map generator
Database Error Database error
database has encountered a problem.
Please try the following:

* Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
* Open the www....com home page, then try to open another page.
* Click the Back button to try another link.

The www....com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

what can i do ??
and also i cant open sitemap_1.xml.gz
tanx about your hellp

[iojam]

Check the html source of that page to find out exact db error message.

[Das UndergrounD]

to generate a sitemap I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbseo_sitemap_albums() in /************/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php on line 113

[havard20009]

my db error
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/02/44.jpg

[iojam]

Das UndergrounD,

if you don't have vBSEO installed, turn off "vBSEO URLs" option.

havard20009,

you should check the *html source*, not the on page content for exact message.

[havard20009]

<!--
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT *
FROM blog
WHERE state = 'visible';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'state' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Thursday, February 19th 2009 @ 03:51:55 AM
Error Date : Thursday, February 19th 2009 @ 03:51:57 AM
Script : http://...com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
Referrer : http://.com.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/
IP Address : 120.28.133.235
Username : not register
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :
-->


also i used this code 4 resolve but i have problem with this

PHP Code:
$tcount = $db->query_first("
SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "groupmessage
WHERE groupid='$rrow[groupid]'
");
replace with

PHP Code:
$tcount = $db->query_first("
SELECT count(*)as cnt,max(dateline) as lastupdate
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "groupmessage AS groupmessage
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "discussion AS discussion ON (groupmessage.discussionid = discussion.discussionid)
WHERE discussion.groupid='$rrow[groupid]'
");

[iojam]

Do you have vBulletin Blog installed? If yes, are you running the latest version?

[goxy63]

please update for 3.8.1

[carrlos]

I tested mod_rewrite and it works. The generator generates the sitemap in the .../data folder. The problem is that I get a 404 error when trying to access it. Google is saying the same thing. I have the .htaccess file in the forum root. I gave this link to Google:

http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Any suggestions?

[Huy Ho?ng]

Uninstall this version to switch to version 3.8 :D
Good job

[Scalemotorcars]

Seems to be working fine. Thanks! :up:

[Ipuck]

I have been using the Sitemap Generator for months, I just upgrade to 2.5 and I have a couple of questions

Questions:

Show Sitemap Downloads Log -- Should I erase or keep them? Is there any option no to save the log?

Show SE Bots Activity Log-- How do I erase the log? if it is possible to erase, should I erase or keep them? Is there any option no to save the log?

Show Reports List -- Should I erase or keep the list? Is there any option no to save the list?

Last question: I upgraded to 2.5 but still shows 2.2 at the bottom, am I doing something wrong?

[iojam]

I'd recommend to setup "Prune log" setting in vbseo_sitemap_config.php file to automatically erase old logs:
define('VBSEO_SM_PRUNE', 0); // logs age in days to prune

Last question: I upgraded to 2.5 but still shows 2.2 at the bottom, am I doing something wrong?Make sure that you uploaded all new files to vbseo_sitemap/ folder and imported xml product file in vB admincp.

[rinkrat]

I just upgraded from the previous version and now when I run the script it stalls here

forumdisplay] forum_id: 15, total threads: 382, pages: 13 [6,631.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 20, total threads: 172, pages: 6 [6,637.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 43, total threads: 225, pages: 8 [6,641.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 45, total threads: 70, pages: 3 [6,644.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 46, total threads: 134, pages: 5 [6,646.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 44, total threads: 25, pages: 1 [6,648.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 47, total threads: 71, pages: 3 [6,649.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 18, total threads: 108, pages: 4 [6,650.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 11, total threads: 299, pages: 10 [6,651.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread [6,655.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

How can I kick start it to finish the job?