Do you need to have VBSeo or Zoints SEO installed for this to work?

kollam003,

if you can PM me your ftp login details, I'll check the permissions.

Michael2,
You should create .htaccess file as described in installation instructions, in this way sitemap file can be accessed via forums root.

redtaz,
No.

The .htaccess file is in the forum root directory. Do I need to edit it somehow?

If you already have .htaccess file in forums folder, you should add rewrite rules for vBSEO Sitemap Generator to the top of it.

Will this work for us Windows folks?

This is what's in it...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

nice addon..
just one problem.. it takes the urls for the sitemap from only non restricted topics.
For example when i dissallow my guests to view the inside of a thread the url doesnt gets included in the sitemap.. is there a solution for that? (for viewing posts inside a thread i expect that the guests log in or register)

I have a very large forum with 87,000 threads and 2.4 million posts. Obviously, this will result in a very large sitemap. Has anyone else successfully installed this plugin on a similarly large forum? Can I expect a performance hit while the large sitemap is being generated?

no one with the same problem :S?

That's the way it should be. Spiders, like Guests, are not logged in members. If Guests can't see a thread, neither can spiders.

To include those in a sitemap would be asking spiders to crawl threads which in fact they will never be able to "see".