Ohiosweetheart,

please try to add "RewriteBase /forums/" line to your .htaccess (replace /forums/ with your folder name).

djbaxter,
As it is said in the sitemap protocol (the page you have linked to):
And couldn't find a mention that sitemap can be located anywhere in case of robots.txt usage.

Hi ,

i have 3 questions :
1 - i have 102,142 Links and it takes 450.17 s !! i think it s not normal . is there anyway that we can set when seo is active forum will be close ?? something like that ?

2 - before i had all Sitemaps in my forum directory , but now they r only in /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/ ! and i can not locate the last one in Google webmaster page . i did wrong somewhere ??

3 - when i want to Active HOT LINK PROTECTION i get this error : is it about SEO ? or what ?

thanks in advance

Hello,

1. it is suggested to set the execution time for scheduled task to the moment with minimal activity on your forums

2. you should create .htaccess file as described, the files will still be saved in data/ folder, but you will be able to access them in forums root

3. what is your complete .htaccess file contents?

I'm getting a blank page when running the script, i've just moved to a new server,
the PHP limit time to run scripts is 1000 Sec'
what can i do? i really need it back..

I've been using it for a year now..
what to do?

Hello,

do you get any details in server's error log?

no there isn't any thing in the server error log..

about #1 : i found the option in setting : " Delay Execution After Each Sitemap File " but what amount u should suggest me ? is it second or minute or what ? ( default is 0 )

about #2 i : saw that my .htaccess is not available in forum directory !! so i made it again and now it works well .

about #3 :
my site is redirect from public_html to public_html/forum . so i have just one .htaccess in /forum directory and this is is :
is it correct ? or i should have it in root directory too ? thanks

I've fixed the problem, now i have a new problem, in the past i've used vBSEO, it isn;t installed now.
when i'm submitting my sitemaps to google they return errors after downloading the sitemaps -

HTTP Error:
URL:
URL:
URL:
URL:
URL:
Date found: 301 (Moved permanently) [?]
http://www.atraf-f.net/2036039-post12.html
http://www.atraf-f.net/1993365-post23.html
http://www.atraf-f.net/1870981-post55.html
http://www.atraf-f.net/1924662-post12.html
http://www.atraf-f.net/1959712-post6.html
Jun 11, 2007

URLs not followed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted. [?]

what is this? i don't have any "1959712-post6.html" in my forum..

I also have it -
rrors
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:
Date found: 404 (Not found) [?]
Jul 6, 2007

but when i'm trying to access the sitemaps it's working ..

but some do work..
sitemap_142.xml.gz Sitemap Web Apr 2, 2007 7 hours ago OK 10000

Mecho,

1. that depends on how is your server load affected. You can try to set it to 20-30 seconds.
3. yes, this is correct.

Thanks iojam