Just hoping someone here has had experience with this type of setup and can point me in the right direction so that I don't have to play trial and error and screw things up!

done the same as mentioned, still get 404 error not found
had posted this - modified for my forum:

I have added the rewrite rule inside lighttpd_rewrite to lighttpd.mysite.com inside the conf/lxadmin folder.

riverwire,

did you create .htaccess file as described?

PWO81,

looks like permissions issue. If you have modified any files/folders permissions then try to reinstall vBSEO Sitemap Generator.

realmr,

are any other rewrite rules working for you on your server?

Thanks for the reply, i sorted it, not sure how but i did lol after i moved the site to a different domain it seemed to work (dont worry i didnt move the site because of that problem ) :)

Great, I'm glad you got it sorted :)

Hello...

Seems to be an issue somewhere. Not sure where, but somewhere.

The data is made and put into the "data" directory that is inside the "vbseo_sitemap" directory which is under our forum root.

The files are made just fine and reported to Google. Looking in the Google Webmaster Tools, it sees the main master file just fine, but does not index any of it. Why? Well, looking inside the file it makes, all the links for each file is not to the forum root where the .htaccess file is.

Here is the master file Google calls...(As reported by Webmaster Tools)

REMOVED

Note the path above DOES work as it is redirected as needed by the .htacess file.

But inside that master file, all the others are listed like this...

REMOVED

Note the added vbseo_sitemap directory.

As such, these all fail as the files it is looking for is actually inside the DATA directory.

REMOVED

Now, even more weird. If I look at your spider logs, it shows files are being picked up. So which is it? Google says on their site, nothing pickup up, yet you show them as being accessed.

Please be so kind to advise.

Thank you.

Make sure that you have "Sitemap Files URL" setting empty.

Thank you for the reply.

Looking at the option setting, it says it will keep the files in the forum root if you do not set this. Seeing I do not want the files stored in the forum root, as we have over 250 of them, I set it to...

REMOVED

...Are you saying this is not correct? All my files in that that dir and then the data is in the data directory within it.

Are you saying this is not correct?


BTW...Running a test now jsut for kicks. But it takes time. :)

Can not access the sitemap settings page from control panel..
Any Ideas?

David Bott,

that option should be empty.

Abhik,

what is the error you get?

Thank you. That did the trick.

No errors, it was just the wording used in the description of the option. It kind of reads that all the files will be placed in the forum root. Thus I added in the URL to the directory of the vbseo_sitemap.

All good now.

Download.dat cmod 666 fix no problem

well there are some other rewrite rules of the server they are working good
such as webmail and other rules are working well only this code doesn't respond :(
Another issue noted which wasn't mentioned earlier was tag urls are been submitted to sitemap it just shows 0 always

What is your forums folder name? You have "/" in left part of rewrite rule and "/board/" in the right part, while it should be the same in both cases.

thanks!

I have edited in the following ways:
still the same 404 error pops up :(

I also noted - Tag URLs 0 (-)
There are more than 20 or 30 tags but they aren't getting submitted to sitemap while generation ?

Where can I find the password? No show :( Can't use.....

Good morning everyone1

vBAdvanced Dynamics add-on for vBSEO Sitemap Generator has been published:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=191964

Enjoy!


Cheers,
aproape

realmr,

it should be:
BatMs.com,

you can find it in vB admincp->vBSEO Sitemap Generator options.


aproape,

thank you!

I've been using this for a while but now I'm wondering if I've been using it correctly.

Specifically for Yahoo, do I need to do anything with the reports that are generated? If I go to the Yahoo submit site page you can submit a URL or a submit a site feed. Do I need to do either of them if I'm using this mod? If so, which one? If the site feed, what is the full URL that they are asking for?

Thanks very much for the help!

Tom

tried it as well, still gives page not found.

tom212,

you should submit sitemap.xml to Yahoo on https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites


realmr,

replied to your PM.

I went through the Yahoo site submit process at that link and was "authenticated." However, when I visit that link now I go straight to "My Sites." The site is listed there, but there is nothing about uploading the .xml file.

What am I missing?

Thanks very much,

Tom

You should click the number in "Feeds" column to see sitemap status.

Uploaded and it works great. Thanks.

Hi,
This is my first post here.
Thanks for this sitemap plugin.
I would like very much to install it, but I use FrontPage 2003 for the upload, and when I tried to add the .htaccess file to the upload files list in my local website, I got an error message.
Then added the htaccess.txt file instead, but the application wouldn't let me change it to .htaccess
So I regrettably got cold feet and abandoned the install.
Using an FTP application might work, but I learnt from experience that this can corrupt the FrontPage Server extension files.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. :)

If we get vbSEO, then do we still need this? Or is vbSEO even better with this? Do they conflict? Or are they meant to go together?

I found the answer in the installation page that that came with the plugin:
On the left bottom in white text
IIS Web Server
open/edit your httpd.ini file etc.........
As this file is not accessable by me from my Plesk control panel, and knowing how uncoperative my web host support team are, it looks like I would have to forget it.
Any suggestions please, apart from buying the vbseo (which I will do when my newly born forum get more traffic. Thanks. :)

If you purchase and install vBSEO , you should still install vBSEO Sitemap Generator .

vBaBB,

you can generate sitemap and then manually move sitemap file (*.gz) from vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder to your forums folder.

OsideRida06,

it's recommended to have *both* vBSEO and vBSEO Sitemap Generator installed.

Thanks guys. I now see the difference in the two. I have done alot of research on them in the last couple of days. Thanks for the fast response.

I installed this on my forum but google said theres errors in my site map and it goes on to say that the site map is the wrong file type any way to fix it so its the right file? i still cant find my site on google and I even have adsense installed. thanks in advanced to any who can help me.

one question , do we need vBSEO?, i was planning in buying a license, but in the future :D, until my forum grows a little bigger

No you can use vbseo in this though.

thanks :D

anyway nice work!

keep the good work

pein87,

what is the sitemap URL you submit and what exactly is the error message you get?

You need to manually submit your sitemap file to Google Webmasters account