If you follow the instructions, place the vbseo_sitemap/ folder in your /forum directory, and upload the .htaccess, your problem will vanish.

You MUST place the vbseo_sitemap folder in your /forum/ directory (or whatever the folder is called that contains global.php etc), or it won't work, as you have discovered.

The .htaccess goes in the root/ folder. It 'tricks' google into thinking the sitemap xml file is at root.

(If your forums are at root.. that's okay too.)

hay thanks for your reply, my vbseo_sitemap directory is inside forum directory.
like mydomain.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/

.htaccess should go to root? it's inside mydomain.com/forum/

in the readme it says to upload it like 'vbroot/.htaccess'
so vbroot mean inside forum or my root directory?

i mean .htaccess should be like

mydomain.com/.htaccess
mydomain.com/forum/.htaccess

or should be in both places?

i know it may be dumb but i dont know whats vbroot, i thought it's the directory which vb installed.

Hmm this is strange. I had the mod installed for about 2 days now and there are no current reports made yet. Any idea?

http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/vbseo_sitemap/

@ Dark
I think the reports are in the vbseo_sitemap/data folder.

@ nokstar
vbroot means vbulletin root...so basically where your forums are.

hay thanks AzzidReign,

well i went to https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

and submited
http://www.mydomain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

but i really wanted to have a site map to my root. I mean to http://www.mydomain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

since my vbseo_sitemap in my forum directory i dont have such http://www.mydomain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

So i manualy uploaded sitemap_index.xml.gz from forum directory to root. Since that sitemap_index.xml.gz only links to http://www.example.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml it dont need any updating right?

So i have same sitemap(/forum/sitemap_1.xml) from two locations to Google sitemaps program. Is it okay? will it cause trouble?

i have submited both

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

other thing i have add some other directory in my root to extra-url.txt
But google sitemap program says "never accept links from higher level directorys. like mydomain.com/friends"

Should i remove that link or any solution for that?

Dark Blade,

did you setup a sheduled task to create sitemap s in vB admincp?

NokStar,
you should create a new .htaccess file in the site's root:
and manually submit individual sitemap files to google account:

ok i installed and ran it and got this
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in \vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 609

mdavis1984,

you can either:
1. modify your php.ini by adding the setting:
sendmail_from your_email@domain.com

2. or modify vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file
FIND:REPLACE WITH:

Yes Oleg, I did create the sheduled taks in the Admin CP...

having same issue as others, tried many combinations and permutations...
but still getting 404 error when run a check via Google sitemaps.

-- uploaded all files to server and installed acc. to readme
-- uploaded .htaccess to root folder AND /forums/ folder (just in case)
with the following code:

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

-- configured the admincp for vbseo sitemap.
-- uploaded /addon/ folder with vbseo_sm_vba.php and added module name in the Addon Generator Modules of admincp. (i am running vbadv. CMPS).

actual folder structure is to the sitemap:

www .mysite . com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz
(is that right?)

but I submitted:
http :// www. mysite .com/sitemap_index.xml.gz
to google add sitemap verficatoin tool.

-I have "Run from vB Scheduled Tasks Manager ONLY" set to YES.
-and auto submitt is on..but I still wanted to verify it was working with a direct submit check).
-I have set a run direct code properly.
-nothing the extra urls.txt cause I don't really know what to do with that.
-yes, I have the cron job set up.

any ideas what am I doing wrong? :( any help would be greatly appreciated.