Hello iojam,

I downloaded a new copy here, copy the files to the server and overwrote: didn't work. I uninstalled the old copy and installed again, still didn't work.

I deleted the old data folder (including the sitemaps there) and that seems to have fixed it. I guess one or more of those files got damaged somewhere.

Edit: yes, it completed now.

Hi

I have a problem with Reports List, no more *.log files are created in vbseo_sitemap/data/ since april 2009?!

I have vbseo and when i try to access /forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz it redirects to forumhome.

is allready in the htaccess file in the forum root. any idea?

djilou,

make sure that data/ folder permissions are set to 0777.

mescalin,

check that mod_rewrite is enabled on your host: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-i...my-site-21502/

mod_rewrite is enabled ive tested it and im runing vbseo without problem. however when i try to redirect to sitemap it redirects to homepage and redirection doesnt work for that.

Hello,

what is your full .htaccess file content?

I'm using this since 2007, but was checking now and have some error:
When clicking "Show SE Bots Activity Log", i get this error:
Warning: file(/home/gsm/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/hits/20080125.log) [function.file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 216

also, i don't see any new file in data/hits folder, since Jan 2008....
What am i doing wrong?

Basically, when this sends sitemaps to Yahoo/Google- does your CRAWLABILITY LINK get included with the information sent?

Months ago I installed this on a big-board of mine and my rankings took a huge drive in the search engine- and I was penalized. Yes, you could argue there are a number of factors that could lead to that. However, I just realized that this could be the issue.

1. Having your rankings take "a huge drive" (sic) and being penalized are two very different things. Whihc was it and if you were penalized, what for?

2. How could adding one outgoing link possibly cause what you seem to think it caused? Do you really think that is even remotely plausible?

I downloaded this and read the install instructions.

However my forum home is not my website root. It's one directory down from the website root and my .htaccess file is in my root, not my forums directory. I have php code that runs in the root and one of the links off the php code in the root leads to the forums directory.

therefore my question is as follows:

1) I assume that the .htaccess code that's included in this hack which follows should be changed from:
to:

is this correct?

thanks in advance.

your instructions on installing this mod say this:

The Yahoo sitemap must be manually submitted to http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/.

However that page is outdated/

Does Yahoo still require a manual submission?

My big board went from 350,000 indexed pages to 8,000- and from a pagerank 4 to a pagerank 0; thus suggesting to me that my site was indeed penalized. Penalization, the act of being penalized, DOES result in a huge DIVE in terms of search engine rankings. You may want to consult with an SEO forum if you are not aware how these correlate.

What I was asking in the initial post was if the link gets added as a "sitewide" link on our "sitemap" which is sent to google. I was sending no accusations; however just asking if this is what may have caused my penalization and if this is the reason that a branding free liscense is not available on this script.

No, it does not. The only thing that gets 'sent' to the SEs is notification that the .xml.gz has been updated.

Kall,

Thank you for addressing my issue! This is good news.

Every time I run the sitemap generator I get this

GTX2,

make sure that you have 0777 permissions se tfor data/hits/ folder.


sailnet,

Yes, your modification for root .htaccess looks correct.
You should submit sitemap to Yahoo here: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites


extreme-gaming,

you should increase memory_limit setting in your PHP configuration to resolve that.

the only problem I am having with this mod is when I do to deleted the downloads logs through the vbseo control panel I get the following errors:

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 259

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 260

I've set the logs to 777 and the directory they're in is 777 also. My site generate over 60 gz files every day and the logs are growing out of hand in short order.

I can't increase any setting for php as I'm on hostgator shared hosting, I made it pause 15 seconds in between each sitemap it makes though and that seems to work.

veryyyyyyyyy nice ,tnx

homepage] [7,371.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [7,372.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread [7,372.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] member [7,372.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] polls [7,652.4Kb mem used] [1s (+1s)]
[SECTION START] tags [7,652.4Kb mem used] [1s (+0s)]

Database Error Database error

why this database error
ho to fix it ??

thanks

Thanks.

Do you have to have vbSEO for this to work?

No, you don't. It's entirely independent.

thanks.

sudhi,

try to exclude Tags URLs from sitemap in options.

Hi there,

Thanks, installed. When I run site map generator from the sitemaps log in home, everything runs fine with no errors.

It shows this for the site map link: Your Google Sitemap Index URL .... when I click on the link to the site maps I get a page not found, but the site map was created and submitted successfully.

I hope this is not a stupid question but, when I go to my server and look in the "Data" directory folder the "sitemap_1.xml.gz" is there in a zip file? Is this correct? Is this the file I submit to yahoo?

Thank you in advance...:up:

Edit: Also there is an htaccess file that is there that says "deny from all" should I leave it there?

I just installed a fiew days ago and was wondering how often do the bots download the "sitemap_index.xml.gz"? I have checked the downloads log and are all empty.

Hi there,

Did you upload the .htaccess file that needs to go in your forum root?

Your comment that the sitemap URL gives a not found error leads me to suspect that you didn't.

Hi there Kall thanks for your response.

After combing through all of these posts I did see that quite a bit. I was not sure because I have many different htaccess files in different folders (including my "Admincp" folder) and in the root server, and I don't want to have any of them over command each other.

I added:
to my htaccess file in the main index of the server. That did not work.

I know just uploaded a new htaccess file to my forums root with the same code in it, I can now access the data folder when I click on my sitemap URL from the ACP and get this:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

Is this correct now?

One question that is burning in my mind is, does an htaccess file only control the folder that it is in? What if I have a folder that is below another folder that has another htacces file in it? Will the one in the upper folder have command over the lower folder or like I mention: the htaccess file controls only the folder that it is in?:confused:

When I go to: Sitemap Downloads Log

And try to delete logs I get this:
Is this normal? And do I need to worry about deleting the logs? Do I have to change the htaccess file to delete logs?

Edit:

Never mind,

Found the fix for this at: http://www.vbseo.com/f67/sitemap-dow...tml#post197608
Why doesn't the coder fix the index.php file and upload it, so that the download is updated, and people do not have to manually change the code in the index file?

Do you know the answers for the htaccess questions that I stated in the previous thread?

When I started vBSEO Sitemap Generator for the first time, I got this error message:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT INTO cronlog
(varname, dateline, description, type)
VALUES
('vbseo_sitemap_task',
1260252102,
'Google Sitemap Created',
0);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006

The waiting for page automatic reload was very long, about 40 seconds. At the end it said this error message. What went wrong?

Dang can't figure this out I did not change ANYTHING in the settings - the sitemaps get created OK they all go to /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/ but in the sitemap_index.xml.gz all the URL's for the 150 sitemap files show the URL as forum/sitemap_148.xml.gz ???
Show Google says "it appears your sitemap is a HTML page..''
Any idea's ??

Did you put the .htaccess file in your forum root? This will redirect Google to these URL's!

After uploading the attached file to your forum directory, rename file (delete the ".txt") so that it can be read as a .htaccess file. After that the file should be ".htaccess" in your forum root. Try that and let me know.....

Thanks I figured it out I had to modify the vbseo_sitemap_config.php file to use forum root all is ok now

Oh yeah, I had to do that as well, if you scroll up you will see the link to edit the index.php file.

Here is the link: http://www.vbseo.com/f67/sitemap-dow...tml#post197608 is this what you mean?

is it working with vb4

No. They are bringing a new version 2.6 for 4.0

Bummer

I am getting this running 2.5 with 4.0 gold and SEO3.5 RC1

Really, everyone should read and re-read the recommendations for installing vBulletin 4 over at vBulletin.com.

The majority of the add-ons you've been using with 3.x are NOT going to work with 4.0. That means you have a choice: uninstall any add-on not yet upgraded, or wait to upgrade to 4.0 until the add-ons you consider to be essential have been updated. Otherwise, you are just begging for grief.

I believe that is a given, I have a fresh install of 4.0 gold. I have no add ons out side of what I will be testing as a tester for various like VBseo. I am looking to get 2.6 and am waiting for addons to be updated

Very good Point though :up: