The problem is probably caused by individual Licence Number and download timestamp. So my Gold 3.5 file is slightly different from yours. I will PM you my files' header and footer for you to try patch again. I used Unified Context. You can try to force patch with this flag if needed.

I don't really have the energy and time at the moment to write step by step instructions. I will be abroad in a few days time. So I would rather spend time on the actually code.:)

ive managed to get this sort of working but dont understand step 3 it makes no sense whats so ever :(

any way it submitted my site map and i manually added it to google so i could track it BUT when i click status in google sitemaps it is showing this error:

Sitemap Errors
HTTP error

The server returned an error when we tried to access the URL provided. Please make sure the Sitemap URL is correct and resubmit your Sitemap.

whats happened here then?

Hi lierduh,

I can't seem to open my /archive map anymore? It loads for a while and than its a white screen forever.

I noticed there are alot of zip files there, so what's the deal, do I need to delete/clean out or something, is it getting to big, i can't access it now anymore :(

If you unzip the diff_for_modified_vb_files.zip and put all the files in one of your PC's folder. You should have files include: global_php - diff - 1_6.htm and index_php - diff - 1_5.htm. Use your browser to open these files. It will show you a graphic version of the difference you need to change. Check the the legend for the colour at the left bottom of the screen.

Pink: Removed from old file
Yellow: changed lines
Green: Added in new file

This is very very easy by the way.

What is the URL that Google said it is wrong?

i put in google this

http://www.talk-365.com/forum/archiv...ms_sitemap.php

ill try what you said tonight :D

Can you reply please :)

You should be submitting http://www.talk-365.com/forum/g_sitemap.xml

ok ive upoaded the sitemap to forums directory and submitted taht to google sitemaps admin and see if taht returns anything, does this mean that the actaull hack his failimng then? cos it tells you to put the sitemap file in the archive folder not in forum folder??

im confused

also ive opened the files up i the browser for the step 3 but what exactly do i do???

its says the differences from V1.4 what the hell is V1.4 do i add the extra code etc that is missin in 1.4 into my global files or what? this makes no sense :(

im thick

Since upgrading I've had major problems with this.. I'm running two forums and have had identical problems on each.

I test out the script and it generates the indexes correctly, however sometime down the road a few crons later the script somehow ends up generating a .gz for EVERY thread on my forum causing my /archive directory to contain thousands of .gz's and my index file to be almost a meg.

This seems to be the same problem that Triple_T is having.

Any ideas?

c'mon guys a little support here, this hack is too good to uninstall ;)

Ok, please list some examples of the file names and its contents. Without having the same problem. It can be hard for me to find the bug.

I honestly did not know what Triple_T was talking about though it makes more sense now.

I actually saw this today.

I couldn't get it to do it when I ran the cron manually from the admincp, but the scheduled task being run by the schedule did just this.

I had somewhere in the region of half a 100,00 files splattered around before I managed to kill the process (by nuking the MySql process and also restarting httpd). It took about 15 minutes running "rm -f *" against batches of 5,000 *.gz items at a time to delete them all.

I thought it was just me!

Anyhow... my cron job log output for this task is attached. Beware that the single logged job expands to 7.68mb of log file!

Fun :)

I have nailed down the bug.
Please download new version (V1.1a)!

Fantastic response :)

I shall test it straight away :D

Yup, this one has fixed it.

Thanks very muchly... it's damn early there, so I'm guessing that was a pre-shower fix, much respect for it.

very fast,thank you

Yes, it was a pre-shower release. :o :)

I am confused on step three. I have read the little diff sheets and the color charts but I don't get alot of it. Like on the yellow/changed line things.... do I change the code all together? Like on the index diff code chart on line 317, do I change that whole first yellow section on the left to the code on the right? or do I add the code on the right with it? Bah... very confusing since some of the code on other lines that it does this with seems to be exactly the same.

I use the text diff files.

And very basically:
Lines that start '<' need removing in your version
Lines that start '>' need adding in your version

I find text diff's much more friendly and when you start changing the code you'll find it's easier than you think. Just look at the code and you'll see lierduh is removing the PDA stuff, redirecting real people to the threads and making things nicer for such spiders.

I'll give this a shot again
and i get this error when i chmod the root and arcives to 777 as the instructions say :|

:ermm:

Yellow means change, why add?

The three lines before any coloured lines means: Fine these line, and change the lines after these three lines.
Then if yellow, change the whole yellow block on the left into the block on the right.

If you see green on the right, that means add lines. Green never appear on the left.

Same goes for pink, that never appears on the right because it means delete.

The coloured chart is even easier than the step by step instruction I think.:)

somehow i just install like the instruction, but i confuse... is it i need to submit manually or it will submit to google automatically?

The Instructions gave me a headache :p But part 3 is optional anyhow isnt it?

The part in the readme that instructs you to add a scheduled task is what will automatically send the sitemap to google on whatever frequencey you set the task at.

Hi, I installed this mod a couple of days ago (great mod!)

It was working fine for a while, then I just went to Google to track the status and it's telling me the index file is too big:

Hope you can help :)

James.

My forums seem to use:
/archive/index.php?t-10939.html
By the sitemaps created are
/archive/index.php/t-10939.html

Howdo i get it to generate them with a ? instead of an /

Looks you guys are still running the old version.

I sent a messages about the new version a few days ago, people who registered "Install" would have received the message.

Oops, I'll get it now, thanks :)

This is the only vB mod i've installed that I've forgotten to click install on so far :o clicked it now :)

Can you send me the message, i forgot to click install?

Alright, I did everything and installed it. Then I submitted this link to the google sitemap.

http://guardiansanctuary.net/forums/g_sitemap.xml

So I wait a day and then it says that it is ok but when I check on the stats, it says that it has generated some HTTP Error.

New beta script.

Threads containing newer posts will have higher sitemap priority with this new script.

hi, i have some "hidden" forums that i want to be shown in the archive, but not shown on the forums page!! what can i do??

Why on earth would you want this?

If you have them in the archives and Google indexes them (it will), then your hidden forums will be cached in Google and you will find it VERY hard to remove them from there.

If they're hidden from your members, why on earth would you want to publish them to the whole world and your members anyway?

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no no !! they're not hidden to members, they don't appear on the forumhome but they're active!!

I've been modifying the files manually each time there is an update. How would automate the process so I don't have to manually modify the files each time, but rather just run something like the 'diff' script so that it is automated?

With the newest updates at least all you have to do is upload the forums_sitemap.php and that will overwrite the old one with the new code, that's it.

Ok, but in general, is there a way to do something like that with plugins? Using a 'diff' type of method to implement code?

Yeah with products that will do the file edits for you but this mod doesn't support that yet and I don't know if it will but for now you would have to do it manually.

bump :ninja:

So far so good for me. Now instead of bots being all over the place they seem to only be looking at threads and the main page. :)

I haven't had any trouble with submitting to Google though. Actually Google seems to crawl my forums quite a few times per week anyway, so maybe I don't need to bother submitting it..

You should submit the sitemap. I had Google spiders, and it's not about attracting them, it's about getting them to be more efficient, to look at things they didn't know were there, to look deeper, and to get more of your content indexed.