If I clear the directory I still get the error. I do have a question since I did install the full version of VBSEO after having sitemap installed. Do I need to modify the VBSEO htaccess?

If I clear all of the files and rerun the generator it makes it all the way to the end then I get this:

no vbseo's .htaccess is already modified for vbSEO and Sitemap generator both. so you just need to upload the .htaccess that came with vBSEO package.

try disabling Generate Yahoo-Compatible Text Sitemap in vBSEO sitemap settings.

I installed this version with vb 3.73pl1.

Starting the cron job manually for the first time gave me a memory allocation error with over 1 gig wanted by the script.

I then cleared the data directory from *.gz and started again - worked.

However, the cron job is doing very strange things.

Let's say I have 48 sitemaps in data with #48 being below my limit of 50000 URLs. It then just adds a #49 with URLs from vbseo_sm_vba.php - no forum URLs added or changed, which is not correct.

So I set up a batch clearing the directory from *.gz prior to the cron job - same behaviour, but now I just have that #49, the index (correct with all files) and a Yahoo list (also only few URLs) in there.

Having the cron job run a second time does exactly the same again. I have to clear the directory manually, login and run the job. That's the only way everything is ok.

Any hints on this one?

I am a vbseo owner but do not use it currently, not installed.

I get this error when looking for the sitemap

I have installed it all correctly on my other forums but this one seems to be a pain and not working, ive run the sitemap generator and it looks ok :

But still not working please help

Im running on Godaddy hosting, i know its not the best but i know it works as my other sites work fine.

It says, Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.officechai.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

• but when i open filezilla, and go to this path, /public_html/forum, i dont see that xml.gz file. if i dont find it, how will google? but yes, i can see a similar file in /public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data
• what is the path I should give to google? It says, You have recently submitted one or more Sitemaps for this site. Processing Sitemaps may take some time. Check again later to see if pages from your Sitemaps are included in Google's index. and the file path I filled int that text box is forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz
• moreover google only accepts xml format, what is that xml.gz format? Do i have to convert it before submitting to google?
  

Which step is correct and which is incorrect; how should i rectify the incorrect one. thanks for the product, and your time to us.

I believe its like a ghost file generated by the script, if you click on the URL it shows the site map is there, thats what google will see.

Google accept .gz too

This worked but how do I correct the yahoo sitemaps?

Thanks for the help,

You do not need to *correct* any yahoo sitemaps. They do not accept .txt files anymore, so the same index.xml.gz would work fine for Yahoo

I just installed the VBSEO sitemap and I followed the directions perfect. But when I go to access my Sitemap reports (I go to http://www.mysite.com/Forum/vbseo_sitemap) I get this error message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mysite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


I installed everything where it needed to be installed. I see VBseo in my control panel and I can see the settings. But when I click on reports I get that same error message. Is it because any reports havent been made yet since its scheduled to run at 2am?

Would anyone know whats wrong?

Sorry But Bump for my post too, still not working