sorry, but in yahoo i insert my page http://www.nokiasymbian...rum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

but for Authentication, i download y_key_115b71d5ed5ca957.html yahoo file.

where i insert it??

sitemap_index.xml.gz isn't a folder!!!!!

about the auth file , just upload it in the exact same folder you have defined, wich must be from your example in ../ns/forum/

That's normal you do not see the sitemap_index.xml.gz in your forum root because the .htaccess inside the forum root does the redirect, if you have setup your rewrites correctly, all requests to /ns/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz must be forwarded to a php file inside the /ns/forum/vbseo_sitemap folder, and this last php file call then the sitemap from the /ns/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data folder . In short, if you request http://www.nokiasymbian.it/ns/forum/...p_index.xml.gz in your browser and you have a 404 this is because you didnt configured the rewrite.
And also when you add a site to yahoo, add the link that point to the directory not the sitemap url, the sitemap name goes in the feed section.

i have insert y_key_115b71d5ed5ca957.html yahoo file in my vb root ( /ns/forum/ ) but yahoo failed authentication.... but google authentication all !!!!!

the mod are sett correctly (think)

from your error message this is due to an invalid link passed to your forum root look

The expected file path is http://www.nokiasymbian.it/ns/forum/..._index.xml.gz/y_key_115b71d5ed5ca957.html

Yahoo think your forum root is http://www.nokiasymbian.it/ns/forum/..._index.xml.gz/ which is wrong and so on , you must delete this wrong website and create a new one with this directory url only: http://www.nokiasymbian.it/ns/forum/, you dont have to place the full sitemap link with yahoo, this is when your forum root is setup, then you just have to add a new website feed called "sitemap_index.xml.gz", only the sitemap name in the feed because yahoo knows the forum root you must have previously entered.

wr to upload .htaccess file for apache server i mean root path?.........................

hai cant understand this step any one help me this step needed one for us after installing this mod bcos in tat instrucion it said for (vbseo users pls skip this steps) so we need this step or not?here is the screeen shot................


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

hai i have one .htacess file default in this root path /vbseo_sitemap/data/ and in the .htacess file am having this msg only (deny from all) is it correct and one more thing i cant change the permission of .log files in cuteftp software.....................

The forum path more precisely, if you're using the licensed product vbseo you must already have an htaccess in your forum root to rewrite urls, so instead of to delete the one from vbseo just open it and add at the end the sitemaps rewrite.

Yes vbseo is another licensed product they have made and probably directly imported the sitemap rewrite in it, to check if you htaccess is valid that's simple, just open it and if you do not have the lines highlighted in red, just add them.
Yes this is correct this is a securiy prevention in the case you setup too much restriction to the data folder, malicious hackers knows this folder could be hackable if it's not surveyed enough. If you cannot change the permission from your ftp this mean the user under which runs the ftp software isn't the owner of the files nor do not have enough access, you'll have to find out under wich user your ftp server is running, in the case of a shared hosting the ftp user is your ftp login name so you will probably have to change the owner of some files with "chown user:group files" command.

i dont know clearly which files u r telling abt to rewrite. .htacess means which one u said pls tell the correct root path of .htaccess to rewrite urls and onemore thing i dont know i have vbseo licenced product or not but amgetting vbseo only from here.............

the forum root is the folder where you have lots of vb files like showthread.php,forumdisplay.php etc, you must have the .htaccess placed in the same folder, you don't know if you're licensed to vbseo ?? then you probably dont have it this is a 150$ software you buy on vbseo.com but the sitemap plugin is free and doesn't need it, they mention about the vbseo plugin because they are the same authors and this to provide a support to the free sitemap plugin to the paid vbseo plugin for vbseo customers because anyone that has buy vbseo has installed the sitemap plugin I guess.

but in tat root folder i dont have any .htaccess file can i upload new one but my server is apache have to upload in a .htaccess folder or .htacces file is enough and still am not getting the download logs after i changed the permission of .logs file to 777......................

if you dont have any htaccess file already existing in this folder then just upload the one you have in the sitemap install zip file, in the htaccess/ folder there is the .htaccess you need to upload to the forum root. After that chmod 777 the /data/ folder where are the logs files, make sure there is a htaccess file in the /data/ folder with the deny all directive to restrict malicious attempts and you are all setup:)

thx for the reply class101 now am getting only one error msg google webmaster tools here is the screen shot.........................

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

error message where ? I only see a notification of the bot allowed to crawl your link. Looks normal to me :)

am asking about allowed, detected as a directory, specific files may have different restrictions and one more help pls explain more abt .htaccess files still am not clear in .htaccess file..............

Then I must forward you to the link that helped me a lot to understand much about the .htaccess file http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html, Allowed else just means googlebot access this directory correctly, this is for example if you see Allowed in the vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, this is very not good but Allowed to your forum root is normal..

I get this error when accesing the sitemap_index.xml file

make sure the folder called data had chmod 777

my problem with Sitemap Downloads Log

how to delete all of log at once

bec i have now 80 pages

plz help

Maybe I am just plain stupid here !:(
I am using 3.6.8
I uploaded all the files and when I need to log in and insert that password, where do I find it in my admin panel?
There is no settings to edit? Please can someone give me a details how to install?
Cheers

Oh silly me!! Stupid indeed!
I never saw the menu on the side of the read me page!!
Installed...thanks Guys...great mod!

Hey,

I've been trying for ages but I can't get the sitemap to work properly with the rest of my site.

The site map generator has been perfect for a few weeks now spidering my forum pages and sending them to Google and the others. But the rest of my site is equally significant and isn't being sent as part of this sitemap.

Can somebody please explain to me in simple terms how I can get this to spider other parts of my site or include the rest in the sitemap?

Many thanks

ok i've never installed this mod before,but the reports about it are brilliant.

can someone tell this novice (me) how you do this :

Enable rewriting via .htaccess


your help would be very much appreciated. :o

can someone please tell me

GPTB,

vBSEO Sitemap Generator only includes forums URL in sitemap by default. You can add other URLs in extra-urls.txt file though and they will be included in sitemap as well.

Lombardo,

if you have mod_rewrite installed on your server, you should simply paste rewrite rules specified in installation instruction into .htaccess file. If it's not supported, you should contact your host to enable it.

Thank you.

Thank for your your answer :) How should I arrange the extra-urls.txt?
For example should I separate each URL with a comma, a space or a carriage return?

Apologies if this is a stupid question!!

Rob

any idea please???

Delete the file downloads.dat :)

hi.
www.p30lords.com/forum/sitemap.xml

http://www.forum.behtarin.com

GPTB,

you should add one URL per line. You can also optionally specify frequency/priority like:

how can i set The frequncey or priority of the links ?

what is the range of this parameters between 0.0 to 1.0

hi not get the result of downloads log and also yahoo slurp spider not constant any one help me to solve i also submitted the sitemap successfully but not getting the download logs.............

Any ideas?

I am using vb 3.7

Please try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=491

i installed as per the readme file, and everything went ok

logged in to vbseo-map page, and clicked on "Run Sitemap Generator "

it generated the files successfully

then at the bottom of the page, when i click on "view details"

it shows me the stats of the links created

and there is links to the files, which the URL shows its in my root http://www.myforum.com/thefilename

however, when i click on the file, it shows me a 404 page not found

i found that the files are generated inside public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/

what is wrong here?

one more thing, from what i understood, is that it notifies google of the changes, do i still need to add the sitemap in my Google Webmaster Tools ?

thanks

oh well,

i found the problem, i forgot to add the entries into my .htaccess file

fixed

what about this bug??
my forum requires registerations to view threads.
and it isnt listing the threads in sitemap, unless i allow guests to see threads.
cant you make it crawl like a member??

ather this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=491 i heve only:

Search Engines Pings
Google FAILED
Yahoo FAILED
Ask FAILED
Moreover FAILED


why???

This is not a bug - those URLs are automatically excluded since they are not visible to search engine bots anyway.

iettafune,

possibly your host disallows outgoing http connections for the scripts and so all ping requests fail.