what do you mean "creat blank files"?

How manuy?
What do you name them?
What file extention?

Thanks. :)

ok, I'm a retard.
I can't tell what needs to be configured in multi.php and what to configure it to!

pls help. :(

i get the same error. How did you fix it?

constant user/pass error for me too

It was simple to fix. I had only one user in my forum, called 'admin', and it was also giving me that message, so I have created another username with administrator rights, called "Administrator". When I logged in with this new username it all went away and works fine now.
Try it and let me know if this helped to you too.
Joe

I did all but I'm still geting Internal Server Error? Any ideas?

Hi tried to run this but only get through partially...

This is in the vbsitemap-multi code:
$v='0';//;0;//3.5;//vBulletin version 3.5 (or leave as zero for v3.3-3.7)
since I'm running 3.7
//directory that the vBulletin forum is in.
$base="forums/"; //if in the subdirectory forum

as my forums are www.muslimprofessionals.org.uk/forums/index.php
so have I got that right?

when running it from forum root get the following errors:
Warning: chmod(): Operation not permitted in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 178

Warning: gzopen(sitemap1.xml.gz): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 249

Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 252

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 263

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 437

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 562

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 611

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 621

Warning: gzclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/www/mulimpro/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 622

I created the sitemap XML file myself manually thinking that if I run this script then it will populate the values in there however,nothing is in there...

The following file sitemap1.xml.gz is also not created.

Chmod all the files yet still cant understand, can anyone help?

Kind regards,

Hanif
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

the problem i am getting is it makes it readable only to the owner of the file and that is it everytime it runs.

Getting the same issue. In FlashFXP it flags it as 99 as opposed to 32287 and I can't manually change each file's permissions.

I am getting a username password error when I try loging into vbsitemap-multi.php.

What is the username and password based on? Is it the MySql Database username and password?

If that is the case it is not working for me and I am using the information from my config.php file.

A bit of help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Yeah I was wondering about that too because I was using my MySql data yet it still did not work.

I too am having this problem, must be a path problem.

hmmmm, same problem as the last couple. Doesn't work with my database login info.

i think t2dman was meaning the admin login information

Working nicely, almost.
It doesn't seem to want to ping tho, I am trying out different values to see if I can make it do it.

ok I'm using 3.5

change that to $v='';3.5;//3.5;//vBulletin version 3.5 (or leave as zero for v3.3-3.7)?

also, when you say root directory, your talking about the forums root, yes?

What does this plugin actually do?

If I ever get it working, I'll let cha know. :p

Not working username password errors

my forum at the root

i uploaded the files to root
this is what i have
$base=""; // "" if in root
$v=0 ;//3.5;//vBulletin version 3.5 (or leave as zero for v3.3-3.7)

please advice any further modifications needed

are you using the same username and password that you have in the config.php?

I am using my mysql passwords and everything like the rest of the people and I still can't get it to work...

I will be setting this up soon and will see about adding more stuff for it to cover. Like ability to work the the cmps2 ect.

I installed it.

Here are some issues -
CHMOD root directory (as in rootwww) - BAD VERY VERY BAD idea. You have to figure out a solution other then having to do that. Maybe a subdirectory off of forum, or a temporary directory, or it's own directory.

Throwing it in the root is not clean. Why can't it go into its own folder off of forum?

I also had the double appending problem with the domain name. www.site.comwww.site.com within the XML files.

Take the db and pass from vB, and don't ask for it. This is required anyway if it's a cron job.

Just put it up on G, so will see how it goes... (crossing my fingers)

Well... it didn't work. The schema is incorrect.

Google wants an http:// after <LOC> which is not create if forgotten from the config.

so the variable $http= line needs to say
$http="http://";

Also there are some problems with the "archive" folder where it appends after the file.
Like this:
www.example.com/forum/archive/index.php/f-1.html

Incorrect username/password

in vB 3.5 RC2

Re: Incorrect username/password

I think

elseif($dbusername<>$username AND $dbpassword<>$password) entry(false);

should be

elseif($dbusername<>$username OR $dbpassword<>$password) entry(false);

erros with this changes are the same

hy, has someone from you a file for me, already modified, with you in the 3,5 RC2 goes? Would be nice if this jeman makes available

Getting this error:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home2/gamers/public_html/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 562

also how can you include meta descriptions and keywords into sitemap ?

Increase your:

max_execution_time = 30

in /etc/php.ini (or other location depending on OS) to 60 or greater so it can finish.

There is one problem/bug in script, i have set our forums threads to be visible only for current month to all guests and members.
but the script goes on calculating number of pages on all forums ?

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in /home2/gamers/public_html/vbsitemap-multi.php on line 422

uh, i have a large site with more then 11,00,000 threads :(

add this to the top of the script: @set_time_limit(30000);
do NOT change your php.ini

Everything went so smooth
I submit the XML file to google sitemap via my account.

For the Sitemap.xml file I got an error:

Invalid date

Here is the explaination for the error.

Your Sitemap contains one or more invalid dates. This could be because a date is in the incorrect format, or the date itself is not valid. Dates must use ISO 8601 encoding, although you can omit the time portion. For instance, the following are both valid:

2005-02-21
2005-02-21T18:00:15+00:00
Dates that are in the correct format may be invalid if they specify a future date or specify a date that does not exist (for instance 2005-15-40).

Below is how it shows date at the xml file:
<lastmod>2005-09-05T02:21:43</lastmod>

I'm getting this too on all of mine...

there aren't any time checks currently and theres quite a few times circumstances where the time doesn't display right.

I got rid of it. This thing messed up my vb.

Please fix -_-

How does the above policy work? Google in general does a deep crawl irregularly - ie monthly, and then the threads are available until they are removed/changed when Google gets a no permission error.

Google also does not even download the sitemap daily, and once spidered, takes a day or so for them to appear on Google, and a few days to start ranking high, especially for more competitive phrases.

I like Google to have the max threads possible, so I can get the max traffic possible when each thread is optimized. One month is not long enough for even Google PR to be assigned.

So despite the above, how would you want the site map generated? For monthly use, you would probably want only the previous two weeks site mapped. Please specify and I will program in. The archive version of the url's would also need the calculation done.

On the face of it, the date is correct per the Google examples.

So all I can consider is that the date is a future date, and should have the +00:00 number of hours set.

I will make sure that all last mod dates have the gmt set.

Google requires it in the root, however, there is a workaround that will be in the next release. All sitemap fiels will be in their own directory, and separate from the sitemap php files.

[QUOTE=libertate]I also had the double appending problem with the domain name. www.site.comwww.site.com within the XML files.[quote]

If you don't do the setup correct, the url's are wrong. But all it needs is a browse at the xml file, and the setup corrected.

Most variables are as per the config, only username/password and ping are required on the html entrance page.

The default in the config is $http="http://"; Take the risk and change it and see what happens as above.

The exact format is customisable in the config. Please let me know your exact problem - the above is the correct default format, and you can change it for your specific instance.