No it does not look ok, but it was ok for last 4 months, and all permissions were setup..

Yes I changed the permissions and its all fixed... weird i never touched it before...

Thanks for ur support..

ANY ONE PLEASE Solve my problme

I installed the mod and I do not get a sitemap file generated in my www.mysite.com/forums/ directory. When I run the generator, I do not get any errors but when I look at the detailed report, all of my search engine pings fail. Any idea what is causing this?

Also, I am using vbadvanced so I have the htaccess file in my /forums/ folder and when i run the program, I can open my sitemap file using my browser but the url is www.mysite.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz. How do I get a sitemap in my root directory - www.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz or do I even need one in my root directory. Sorry for all the questions but i am very new at all of this.

One more question. I just installed vbseo_sm_downloads.php and vbseo_sm_downloads2.php and I now I get a database error when I run the generator.

Once again sorry for all of the questions.

Thank you ,

The problem here

forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 876

unlink(VBSEO_DAT_PROGRESS);

Is there a solution?

mahmuttunc,

did you generate the sitemap?


PAKIDIL,

make sure that you have set folder permissions as described in installation instructions.


zatzy,

please try the latest version of vBSEO Sitemap Generator (v2.1.)


Kalina,

just submit your sitemap to Google to make sure that it's processed correctly.


whitlecj,

sitemap is submitted as yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz.
Please check this thread above for downloads add-on details.


alm3refh,
Try to change it to:

i have tried generating then i get the same errors as pakidil above and i have edited the .htaccess file and followed all the steps.

I uploaded everything in the download. Do I have to edit or add something else?

mahmuttunc,

you should set folder permissions correctly to resolve the issue.

Borden,

yes - ".htaccess" file should be created as described in installation instruction.

I installed the ".htaccess" file that was in the 2.1 download.

This works when I click on it with my web browser: http://www.mysite.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/index.php

When I click on this, it says, "Page Not Found".
http://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Is the Your Google Sitemap Index URL, not suppose to open with the web browser?

I ran the site map generator and this happenend:

Generated Sitemap Details
Date 2008-02-27 20:21
Processing time 55.60 s
Total URLs 70,576 (+132)
Forumdisplay URLs 551 (+2)
Showthread URLs 11,555 (+25)
ShowPost URLs 48,362 (+81)
Archive URLs 9,156 (-)
Member Profile URLs 872 (-)
Poll Results URLs 79 (-)
Blog Entries URLs 0 (-)
Sitemap Files
Index File sitemap_index.xml.gz
Sitemap File #1 sitemap_1.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 120.85Kb) 3,975.60Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #2 sitemap_2.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 119.49Kb) 3,949.76Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #3 sitemap_3.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 128.31Kb) 3,971.07Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #4 sitemap_4.xml.gz (10,576 URLs, 58.24Kb) 2,046.36Kb uncompressed
Text Format File urllist.txt.gz (321.76Kb)
Search Engines Pings
Google Successful
Yahoo Successful
Ask Successful
Moreover Successful

This is what happened as I just submitted my site map to google.

Property Status
Sitemap type Web
Submitted Feb 27, 2008
Last downloaded by Google Feb 27, 2008
Total URLs in Sitemap 0
Indexed URLs in Sitemap –
Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
Details - General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit. HTTP Error:
Found: 404 (Not found) Help

Feb 27, 2008

Up messages from the server

[newmailcgi] Recently Uploaded CGI scripts that send email on host.Site.com‎



Note: If this is the first time you received this mail, it contains the history for the entire month so far. Below are the recently upload scripts that contain code to send email. You may wish to inspect them to ensure they are not sending out SPAM. /home/Site/public_html/vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php:832: {/home/Site/public_html/vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php:833: mail($email,/home/Site/public_html/vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php:834: 'vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Updated',


Can solved?

How do i run a CRON JOB to verify this mod is working?

Edit: I vew my site map on the reports page and this is what I get:
Edit got this email report a few moments ago:
Does it mean this is working?

Borden,

if you have created .htaccess as described and still get 404 error, check with your host that mod_rewrite is supported on your server.

alm3refh,

that is only a note sent by your host stating that script contains PHP mail() function call (to send you email notifications).

Pirat3,

looks good.

If mod rewrite is not allowed on my server what can I do?


Search Engines Pings
Google Successful
Yahoo Successful
Ask Successful
Moreover Successful

the mod works/pings successfully but when I try to manually submit to google or yahoo I get a 404 error
my host is 1&1

All I want to do now is manually submit my sitemap to google yahoo & msn

I installed the ".htaccess" file that was in the 2.1 download in my root directory.

MY SITE IS LIKE THIS www.mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz
NOT LIKE THIS www.mysite.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

how can i get this to work when I submit it manually?

from reading this seems like 1&1 severs allow rewrite rules

thx man ..........

I removed my .htaccess file and moved my files manually to my root directory, now I can submit my sitemap to google yahoo and msn

but how can change this to automatically be put in my root directory versus */vbseo_sitemap/data/

VBSEO still supporting this mod?

newbuck,

make sure that you created .htaccess file in forums folder exactly as described in installation instructions. If it still doesn't work, check with your host that mod_rewrite module is supported on your server.

Thx I did b4 I removed it now I manually upload my sitemap to my root directory everyday after the 2am run.

If my server does not support mod_rewrite module what should I do?

BTW this is a great mod my UNIQUE VISITS has increased since installing it.

I recommend it

The only option would be to manually move sitemap files from data/ folder to the forums root after they are generated in this case.

k thats what am doing


thx great mod

@newbuck

I was having a look at the config files for this mod and spotted this...

It's in the /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_config.php file.

Maybe the red line is what you want to enable.

Hello,

No SE is able to access sitemap files for some reasons. When I tried to open these sitemap files manual I am getting following error message.

Any idea what's wrong with my installation ?

Note: I also have VBSEO installed on my forum.

can i install it for 3.7 Beta 5 version?

The install instructions say add "RewriteEngine On etc" to the end of your .htaccess but I already have "RewriteEngine On" at the start so can I leave it out and just add the "RewriteRule" line? Or does it make no difference?

Thanks in advance

Sitemap Generator will try to put all logs in forums folder as well in this case.
As a workaround to get it automatically updated, you can create symlinks in forum folder to the files located in data/ folder (if you have ssh access to your host).

Basit,

set permissions for data/downloads.dat file to 0666.

IRANCITY,

yes, it's compatible with vB3.7B5.

punchbowl,

you can leave it - there is no difference.

Install!

Magic vBseo! :eek: :eek:

ByeZ!

please some one help

i make every thing and install this mod

but google doesnt archieve any page

this is the statisitcs from google

Sitemap statistics:
Total URLs: 1009771
Indexed URLs: 0


Filename <<<<<<<<<< Status <<<<< URLs submitted
sitemap_index.xml.gz <<<<<<<<<<<< OK <<<<<< 1009771

what is the wrong?

Thanks io, had the same problem as Basit. That solved it

plz someone help

this is the details

Most sites will not have all of their pages indexed.

i serach about that

i found this link

but how to fix????

link1

I finally upgraded my sites to v2.1 and wish I would have done it a lot sooner.. my sites are getting crawled like hell from Yahoo Slurp the last two days. Hopefully that is a sign of good things to come! :rolleyes:

Eric

Very nice mod, i installed it and its working great!

please help

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zuhair2008,

make sure that you setup permissions correctly (0777 for data/ folder).

I've installed the sitemap generator and have imported the product and also configured the sitemap as per the default settings which assume http://www.xxxxxx.com/forum which work a treat, the generator generates the sitemap as expected.

Have just attempted to add the sitemap to Google using the following URL http://www.xxxxxx.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz via the webmaster tools, and encountered the following error:

1. I have created a Sitemap in a supported format. Help
2. I have uploaded my Sitemap to the highest-level directory to which I have access.
3. My Sitemap URL is: http://www.xxxxxx.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz
Example: sitemap.xml
General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure that your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location which you provided and then resubmit.

For information I am using vbadvanced as my homepage which links to the forum as per http://www.xxxxxx.com/forum and have set google webmaster tools to view http://www.xxxxxx.com rather than http://www.xxxxx.com/forum

I've viewed several of the earlier posts on here and have added the url for my site in the extra URL.txt page though assume it's not that txt file I should be modifying!

Apologies now, but I would appreciate it if you could provide me with plain and simple information on what I may need to alter in the files and folders because I feel like a fish out of water with these settings :erm:

Just an idea here which would reduce the workload on vBSEO and help all of us less tech minded in the install of the sitemap :cool:

Why not video a live install of vBSEO Sitemap for use with www.xxxxxx.com/forum and also a version for installing on www.xxxxxx.com when vBadvanced is used, and upload it onto YouTube - If you put a link for your site on YouTube you will also gain new traffic from the post :)

Either vBSEO tech could upload the video, or if someone else (a rival?) wants to gain some traffic from potential vbulletin users then I guess they could post the video :eek: