Does that mean that it is possible to automate the submission to yahoo??

I'm just getting a blank white page. I checked the apache log and it says:
[Tue Feb 6 19:11:50 2007] [error] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 515

When I removed that bracket it seemed to work somewhat but output tons of garbage to the screen also. I'm running php 5.2.

I switched to php 4 and now it works. So it looks like it just doesn't work with php5.

It doesn't work with PHP 5. I'm betting that you have php 5 installed.

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: sitemap_1.xml.gz
Line Number 78006, Column 7:</url>
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Any idea why I'm getting this error on my site map?

Also I just noticed there is no file /vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I figured it out my timeout setting was set to low.

OK i have this installed and i think working. I entered the control panel of it http://mysite/forums/vbseo_sitemap/

And clicked the run sitemap generator. All is well, it creates 3 files called -

Index File sitemap_index.xml.gz
Sitemap File #1 sitemap_1.xml.gz (7,423 URLs, 40.88Kb) 1,436.77Kb uncompressed
Text Format File sitemap.txt.gz (27.81Kb)

And i can access both sitemap_1.xml.gz and sitemap_index.xml.gz by going to http://mysite/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz or http://mysite/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz

So i've submitted http://mysite/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz in my google sitemaps interface (i've turned the option of to automatically notify google) and assume everything is ready to go.

However i cannot get the sitemap.txt.gz redirect to work at all. I've tried http://mysite/forums/sitemap.txt.gz and http://mysite/forums/sitemap.txt and neither will show, forcing a 404 and a redirect (cos i trap 404's). However the sitemap.txt.gz IS in the data directory, so currently i can't submit to yahoo.

Heres my .htaccess and this is installed in my forum root

Any suggestions ?

I have had the same problem.. Is there any way to have this submit these maps to the root instead of the data directory??

Thanks

I've tried looking in every page of this thread but 90+ pages are just too much.

Almost everytime the issue seems to be the .htaccess redirect so this really needs addressing.

Google has picked it up but i still need a solution for yahoo.