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cowcowcow

03-09-2012 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mopar1973Man (Post 2307265)

Did you setup the rewrite code properly in the .htaccess file?

i am getting this exact same error. followed all instructions to a T and added the mod rewrite to the bottom of my .htaccess file. I have other mod rewrites working fine in that same file.

I can access the sitemaps manually by going to the vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder - they all get generated there. but i want to automate it and i believe that involes having it being accessible from myurl/xxxxxxxx.xml.gz which i dont at the moment.

its holding me off from buying the commercial version atm and would appreciate any help.

Thanks :)

lordi

03-09-2012 02:59 PM

Hello

I have VBseo sitemap generator 3

When I generate a new sitemap it goes really WELL .. but when I click on the link of sitemap

http://xxx.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

it gives me the following error

Error loading stylesheet: A network error occurred loading an XSLT stylesheet:vBulletin SEO: The vBSEO Solution.MyOLDdomainURL.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/sitemap.xsl

Thank you

weindians

03-13-2012 02:19 PM

you have to ask in sitemap thread.... something to do with htaccess file

Black Tiger

04-29-2012 01:20 PM

Please help! Since upgrading to version 3.0 on september 17th 2011, no sitemaps were generated anymore.

On my other forum version 2.5 is still running which is working without problems.
What's can be the problem with version 3.0?

When I run the generator manually, no sitemap is created, I only see this from the addons:

Quote:

[addon module] vbseo_sm_vba.php [5,168.5Kb mem used] [19,582,651s (+19,582,584s)]
[addon module] vbseo_sm_downloads2.php [5,187.6Kb mem used] [19,582,651s (+0s)]

Black Tiger

04-29-2012 02:26 PM

Just discovered that if I delete all xml.gz files in the /data directory, I can run the generator manually. However, no search engines are pinged.
It just ends by creating the xml.gz files.

Black Tiger

04-29-2012 02:58 PM

Found another problem, now even when downgrading 2.5:
Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.myforums.org/sitemap_index.xml instead of
Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.myforums.org/sitemap_index.xml.gz
The index.xml.gz isn't created either.

Black Tiger

04-29-2012 09:17 PM

I got 2.5 working again. The downloads2.php module does not correspondent with the downloads II mod. I now used the downloads.php module.

Edit: Version 3.0 now also working ok with downloads.php module for downloads II mod.

Edit2: Installed 2.5 again, 3.0 is giving way to much errors on webmastertools like:
can't read because it couldn't read a xml file in xsl format, tags_xml gave a 404 and stuff like that.

Now I only have problem with the downloads.php addon, will fix this later, gives a parse error.

Black Tiger

04-29-2012 11:14 PM

Can anyone please help? I have RSJelle's downloads II installed.
Getting a parse error now when the files should get into the sitemap generator:

Quote:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.mydomain.org/sitemap_5.xml.gz
Line Number 11433, Column 63: <loc>http://www.mydomain.org/bbs/downloads.php?do=cat&id=1</loc>
--------------------------------------------------------------^

The ^ sign is pointing at the = sign of id=1 (look with Firefox).
Seems a semicolon is missing or something. I'm using the downloads.php addon, because if I use the downloads2.php addon, the sitemap won't even be completed.
There must be a mistake somewhere in the downloads.php addon. Any clues?

Black Tiger

04-30-2012 05:01 PM

I now remember this problem. I posted a fix for this 3 years ago. Unfortunately this mod is so badly supported, in spite of the fact that it is ported to version 3.0, the fix was never implemented.

It's the downloads.php addon which has some false xml statements.
A correct vbseo_sm_downloads.php (for rsjelle's downloads II mod) should read this (marked the changes in red):

Code:

        if(!defined('VBSEO_SMDIR'))exit;

        $mods = $db->query

("SELECT id,name FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dl_cats ORDER BY `id`");

        while ($mod = $db->fetch_array($mods))

        { 

                $url = $vbseo_vars['bburl'].'/downloads.php?do=cat&amp;id='.$mod['id'];

        if(VBSEO_ON)

                $url = vbseo_any_url($url);

                vbseo_add_url($url, 1.0, '', 'daily');

        }

        $mods = $db->query("SELECT id as fid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dl_files");

        while ($mod = $db->fetch_array($mods))

        { 

                $url = $vbseo_vars['bburl'].'/downloads.php?do=file&amp;id='.$mod['fid'];

                if(VBSEO_ON)

                        $url = vbseo_any_url($url);

                        vbseo_add_url($url, 1.0, '', 'daily');

        }

?>

Again... same problem after 3 years. I hope vbSeo will correct this some time.

aapkae

05-08-2012 11:23 AM

i have a problem

my forum running well from 2 years but someone hack my forum and trying to stop my forum

after i check that webmaster tools crawler sitemap error comes

can any buddy solve it what i have to do

i have install vbseo 3.2 and vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/05/41.jpg

Black Tiger

05-08-2012 11:42 AM

If you have installed vbSeo too, you can better ask at the vbSeo.com support forums.

aapkae

05-09-2012 12:51 PM

please sir help me to solve this issue my users are gone i have 2 thousand guest in 5 minutes and now i seen 300 only where all the guest gone

and why webmaster tools shows that error

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/05/41.jpg

i have install 2.5 goolge yahoo sitemap generator

khurtsiya

05-23-2012 08:10 PM

Everything done straight by instruction but: Sitemap file not found
Help please!

bozzawa

06-05-2012 08:34 PM

i try to install vbSEO but when i put file .htaccess in root dir my web site crash and i got error 403 forbidden ecc ecc
if i remove that file the web site will be ok

YankForum

07-11-2012 11:04 AM

just wanted to say thank you 1 more time and tell other friends that this plugin is working great , if you cant make it work you must have a look on your codes to find your mistake

max1982

07-14-2012 03:04 PM

Hi guys
I have installed the Plugin and seem every thing is working apart from Replacing URLs with page Thread Title is not working i have checked the .htaccess and seems ok. but cannot seem to find any option regarding the Replacing URLs with page Thread Title on posts can any one help or tell me what should i do?

Thanks

need2fart

07-31-2012 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by max1982 (Post 2348053)

This is a sitemap generator. It does not include rewritten urls. :p

The full version of vbSEO includes that feature.

akasej

09-12-2012 11:29 PM

Hi Everyone -

I added this sitemap generator to my forum. Now, I am trying to submit my sitemap to google webmaster tools and I can't figure it out.

Is the "sitemap index" what I submit? If so, the url that is shown takes me to a 404(Page Not Found) Error.

Would one of you be able to tell me how to do this?

Thank you so much!

Black Tiger

09-21-2012 12:34 AM

I'm getting a often seen error that several search engines are not pinged.

Quote:

Google ping: Successful.
Bing ping: FAILED.
Yahoo ping: FAILED.
Ask ping: FAILED.

As is to be read on vbseo, nothing could be done because Bing and Yahoo turned of this ping services.

However.... ask ping should still be working.
Also when I read on the vbseo forum, Bing ping IS still working this way:

Code:

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com%2Fsitemap_index.xml.gz

But I can't reply there because I don't have vBSeo itself, only got this sitemap generator.

When I'm going to have a look into the code, I see this:

PHP Code:


		
			
           $vbseo_stat['pingbing'] = vbseo_sitemap_ping_one(
               'http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap='.urlencode($url),
            'Thanks for');

Is there no way to change those last lines so Bing will work again with the code supplied above? Or maybe I can put my forum url hardcoded in this code so it matches the working link mentioned aboven. But how would I have to change this exactly?

Smitty

09-21-2012 01:24 AM

Well.... I installed this about a month ago. For me it pings both Google and Bing. I did look at the output and the sitemap_index.xml.gz points to the sitemap files being located in my forum root rather than /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/

I don't know enough to know what the scoop is, but after I run a sitemap, which I do about every 3 to 5 days, I *immediately* copy the sitemap files to my forum root with a 1 line "script" via ssh. This is an old mod and it hasn't been updated in a very long time so....

That said, I do not have vBSEO installed, so I may have missed something in the config. when I installed it.

I can not say whether a sitemap in a forum is important or not - I did it for the heck of it and haven't really noticed any difference. Google and Bing crawl either way.

A last thought is that many people argue (I believe correctly) that sitemaps are not of of significant value. Once a search engine "sniffs" your site it will crawl it. As long as you have laid out your site navigation well it should find everything. Maybe not as fast as you would like (and sitemaps do not give you a "magic" lift in the serps or a "faster" crawl), but I finally decided it can't (shouldn't?) hurt so I installed it and included it in my weekly schedule.

As always - YMMV

By the way - I decided to take a look at the index files. Despite what you set in the vBSEO preferences for the sitemap(s), it sets *yearly* as the update frequency. Not Good. After seeing that I may stop using it.

I think that right now, 20 September 2012, that this mod is seriously flawed.

Smitty

09-21-2012 02:02 AM

I did find one thing in the vbseo_sitemap_config.php file:

Code:

//define('VBSEO_DAT_FOLDER', dirname(__FILE__) . '/../'); // choose this to place sitemap files directly to your vB root

which I un-commented. I'll look to see if it works next time. But - I still have a *serious* issue with the

Code:

<changefreq>yearly</changefreq>

for every thread, etc. being marked as a yearly update. That doesn't make sense in a forum where many threads are updated daily, not to mention it shows that the vBSEO Sitemap options in the admin control panel do not necessarily do what you set them to do.

Vcize

10-11-2012 01:10 PM

I submitted the /sitemap_index.xml.gz file to google and it does not appear to be crawling the children. It just shows them all as "pending".

I submitted the index about 3 days ago. When I tested the index file it showed fine, and it's not showing any errors. See the image below.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/10/41.png

Vcize

10-17-2012 04:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vcize (Post 2372288)

Can anyone help with this? Is this expected behavior? It's still sitting like that and pages don't seem to be getting indexed at the rate they should be.

Apexi

11-07-2012 05:14 PM

Great hack.... or not

Warning: fopen([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

Warning: fopen([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

kall	11-07-2012 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apexi (Post 2379192)

Great reading of the install instructions.... or not.

yahsuah

11-20-2012 11:32 AM

Thanks for this mod :)

Chase

12-26-2012 08:28 PM

Is this mod fully compatible with vBSEO 3.6.1?

djbaxter

12-26-2012 08:33 PM

Use the latest version of the sitemap from vBSEO and then yes, it is.

Chase

12-26-2012 08:49 PM

Is the mod version 3.0 (from here) the latest version or is there something newer at vbseo.com?

Brandon Sheley

12-26-2012 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chase (Post 2392884)

Is the mod version 3.0 (from here) the latest version or is there something newer at vbseo.com?

3.0 is the latest
http://www.vbseo.com/f5/vbseo-search...eleased-46425/
last time I checked, even if you went to the vbseo downloads, it was redirected to the vb.org thread. :up:

Chase

12-26-2012 09:52 PM

Thank you :D

djbaxter

12-27-2012 01:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chase (Post 2392884)

Is the mod version 3.0 (from here) the latest version or is there something newer at vbseo.com?

vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap 3.0 PL1 is the latest version.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley (Post 2392894)

3.0 is the latest
http://www.vbseo.com/f5/vbseo-search...eleased-46425/
last time I checked, even if you went to the vbseo downloads, it was redirected to the vb.org thread. :up:

No. It downloads from the vBSEO Downloads page for anyone with an active vBSEO license.

Brandon Sheley

12-27-2012 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2392920)

No. It downloads from the vBSEO Downloads page for anyone with an active vBSEO license.

ah, they must have finally changed that
good to know

xlguy

01-31-2013 03:40 PM

So is the .htaccess file in this plugin wrong? I just installed it and I can see the sitemaps have been created in my /data folder, but I noticed the instructions/options page states:

By default the vBSEO Sitemap files will be located in your forum root. Use this field to specify a different location, for example, your site root: http://www.yourdomain.com

This isn't true though. Also, I think there must be something wrong with the .htaccess file that they provide you, because Google Webmaster Tools gives a 404 error as it's trying to access the forum root.

What file exactly are you meant to submit in to the Sitemap box on Google Webmaster tools?

xlguy

01-31-2013 03:58 PM

Ok updated advice:

Do a check to see if your rewrite is working properly, so in .htaccess add:

RewriteRule ^/rwtest http://www.google.com [R]

Then go to www.yourdomain.com/rwtest and it should redirect you to Google. If it doesn't then it might be that your host hasn't setup .htaccess properly and you might need to add the rewrite stuff to your httpd.conf file or get them to enable .htaccess.

Once you get test running then this worked for me:

RewriteRule ^/((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Then at Google, for the Sitemap, enter:

http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

And test it, should work now.

dany_danay

03-26-2013 10:08 AM

If i have VBseo license is this necesary or this is in vbseo??

djbaxter

03-26-2013 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dany_danay (Post 2412350)

If i have VBseo license is this necesary or this is in vbseo??

If you have an active vBSEO license, I believe you can download a later version from vBSEO. It is not part of the standard vBSEO installation.

bada_bing

04-02-2013 02:25 AM

We are noticing that the cron job to execute the sitemap is failing and we are receiving this database error, anyone seen this before?

HTML Code:

[SECTION START] tags [10,725.2Kb mem used] [1,364,872,495s (+1,364,872,495s)]

        Database error

The Our Site database has encountered a problem.

Please try the following:

Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.

Open the www.michiganreefers.com home page, then try to open another page.

Click the Back button to try another link.

The www.oursite.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.

 

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Alfa1

05-26-2013 01:45 PM

It seems vbSEO has been abandoned.
Meanwhile the search engine landscape is radically changing.

Black Tiger

08-12-2013 12:14 AM

Really a pity. Search engines aren't notified anymore either.:(

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