Thanks.

Do you have to have vbSEO for this to work?

No, you don't. It's entirely independent.

thanks.

sudhi,

try to exclude Tags URLs from sitemap in options.

Hi there,

Thanks, installed. When I run site map generator from the sitemaps log in home, everything runs fine with no errors.

It shows this for the site map link: Your Google Sitemap Index URL .... when I click on the link to the site maps I get a page not found, but the site map was created and submitted successfully.

I hope this is not a stupid question but, when I go to my server and look in the "Data" directory folder the "sitemap_1.xml.gz" is there in a zip file? Is this correct? Is this the file I submit to yahoo?

Thank you in advance...:up:

Edit: Also there is an htaccess file that is there that says "deny from all" should I leave it there?

I just installed a fiew days ago and was wondering how often do the bots download the "sitemap_index.xml.gz"? I have checked the downloads log and are all empty.

Hi there,

Did you upload the .htaccess file that needs to go in your forum root?

Your comment that the sitemap URL gives a not found error leads me to suspect that you didn't.

Hi there Kall thanks for your response.

After combing through all of these posts I did see that quite a bit. I was not sure because I have many different htaccess files in different folders (including my "Admincp" folder) and in the root server, and I don't want to have any of them over command each other.

I added:
to my htaccess file in the main index of the server. That did not work.

I know just uploaded a new htaccess file to my forums root with the same code in it, I can now access the data folder when I click on my sitemap URL from the ACP and get this:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

Is this correct now?

One question that is burning in my mind is, does an htaccess file only control the folder that it is in? What if I have a folder that is below another folder that has another htacces file in it? Will the one in the upper folder have command over the lower folder or like I mention: the htaccess file controls only the folder that it is in?:confused:

When I go to: Sitemap Downloads Log

And try to delete logs I get this:
Is this normal? And do I need to worry about deleting the logs? Do I have to change the htaccess file to delete logs?

Edit:

Never mind,

Found the fix for this at: http://www.vbseo.com/f67/sitemap-dow...tml#post197608
Why doesn't the coder fix the index.php file and upload it, so that the download is updated, and people do not have to manually change the code in the index file?

Do you know the answers for the htaccess questions that I stated in the previous thread?