After searching thru this whole entire thread I could not find the RIGHT information to submit the information to YAHOO you must include the .gz


http://www.YOURSITEURL/sitemap.txt.gz

Great hack runs awesome with 3.6.4 very easy to install

In plain terms what is the difference between this and the paid version?

I'm confused.

vbSEO itself does a ton of other things, the most obvious being the URL rewriting. The sitemap is a free add-on which just handles sitemap generation.

Go to their website for more info...

http://www.vbseo.com/

I'm had the exact same problem as you. The sitemap is uploaded into my forums folder....

I'm running php 4.x.x, and my server does support mod re-write. I have VB 3.6.4


I also tried all 3 .htaccess templates listed in this thread too, quad's worked.


Below is the htaccess file I currently have loaded in my public html, and I used quadinfotech's suggestions, which worked!


I uploaded: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz to http://www.mysite.com

Hope this helps!

I'm having some issues with vbseo sitemap. i've installed the plugin in my admincp, protected it with a password since i want to run it manually but when I run the vbseo_sitemap.php , it does create a sitemap but here's what I got

[homepage] [2,373.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [2,373.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 1, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,373.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 2, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,373.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]

any more lines.

the ideea is: in forum_id:1 , I have threads, not 0 , because it's not an empty forum. what made vbseo_sitemap to think the forum is empty ?

Ugh, I just realized it's not automatically submitting for yahoo now :(

I had to play with the sitemap about 7 times to get it to finally work for google, and through my trial and error I got it to work for yahoo once, but don't remember what I did.

Based on the above information in my previous post, why would this not be working for yahoo, but working fine for yahoo?

I have all my information in the AdminCP settings correct I think, with the only thing I want to double check on is my Sitemap Files URL which I have listed as :

./forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php




I've also attached my VBSEO Sitemap report showing it once worked for yahoo, but now doesn't. For some reason I think the only time I got it to work for Yahoo was when the .htaccess file was in the forums folder...but I don't remember now :(

Any help would be appreciated.

the moment I FTP the .htaccess file, the entire /forums directory fails with an IIS error. is there anyway at all to get this thing to work without needing the .htaccess file, or is there a workaround? Isn't .htaccess a unix thing? My website is hosted in IIS on Win 2003.

IIS doesn't support .htaccess files. You'll need ISAPI_Rewrite to handle the rewrite rules.

forgive me for not being as saavy as I should...but is that a server-based install? My ISP controls the server. Is that something I need to talk to them about?

Yes. If you're not on a dedicated server, you will have to contact your host.