If you are on a shared hosting and not understanding very well how to play with chown/chmod commands, I think the best you can do is unfortunely with 777 and make sure the .htaccess file is always present in the data folder, this will deny attacks from the web for sure but the weakness is if another customer is hacked and a worms infects the machine, that worm will have a write access here, this is not really your fault but the webhost than runs apache as php module, if you are on a VPS or dedicated server then you have to learn how to run php as cgi and you can go down to a stricter chmod like Im doing with 750, you can go down to php files to 400, works fine here, but not simple & easy to setup all this, 777 saves time but not your ass heh ;)

Yes i m on Shared hosting.....
Thx for the help, i will ask my host abt this, maybe he will help as he is my good frend...
But on my old shared server it was working fine even with 644 permisison to files and 755 permission to folders..

Thanks once again

Ok, Question...

Why is it that it makes the large files, in our case 100 of them with 50K in each, and Google says it only shows a MUCH LOWER amount submitted?

Example...
From Map Report - TOTAL URLS 5,086,481
Google Shows in Webmaster Tools - URLS Submitted 86,481 (Last downloaded 13 hours ago.)

If I go into DETAILS and look at a random sample of the file details in Google most show 0 URL's in sitemap....

Like for sitemap_1.xml.gz and sitemap_50.xml.gz Google shows...

Sitemap type Web
Submitted Dec 27, 2007
Last downloaded by Google Jan 3, 2008
Total URLs in Sitemap 0

Yet IN the the file that is on my server it shows all the data in each.

So kind of concerned tat maybe that Google does not like what is being made. Anyone have any ideas. Anyone else using a webmaster account as I am can care to look.

If you are running multiple servers with load balancer I suppose that googlebot might hit "wrong" server (not the one where sitemap has been generated).

Try by adding all your sitemaps which are in you index xml directly within the google master tool

This would be true except for the fact that in cases like this I make one master directory on our image server and then link the directories on each server to it. Thus all the servers have the same data directory. (Do the same for attachments, custom avatars, CSS files.) Thus not the case at all. The data is their.


Class101...Adding all the site maps are redundant. Google does find and use the list. Not to mention I have over 100.

From last nights run...Google Reports: Total URLs in Sitemap 98069

Can someone with a Google Webmaster account also check their numbers like I did? I would love to see if I am not alone in this.

Thank you.

Hmm for me I have in vbseo sitemap cp

Total URLs: 14327

Google webmaster tools

Sitemap statistics:
Total URLs: 14327
Indexed URLs: 4668

So my website isn't that big than yours but I see my links have all been detected, however not all yet indexed since it's reopened there is less than a month.

I had a similar problem recently after a server move. I had to delete all my sitemaps and rewrite them. Then everything was fine.

this is my report:

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Report Details
Generated Sitemap Details
Date 2008-01-08 13:05
Processing time 137.93 s
Total URLs 394,464 (-)
Forumdisplay URLs 376 (-)
Showthread URLs 19,368 (-)
ShowPost URLs 112,678 (-)
Archive URLs 14,260 (+175)
Member Profile URLs 64,406 (-)
Poll Results URLs 58 (-)
Blog Entries URLs 0 (-)
Sitemap Files
Index File sitemap_index.xml.gz
Sitemap File #1 sitemap_1.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 178.87Kb) 6,021.21Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #2 sitemap_2.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 185.90Kb) 6,042.15Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #3 sitemap_3.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 185.13Kb) 6,024.04Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #4 sitemap_4.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 184.49Kb) 6,020.82Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #5 sitemap_5.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 170.61Kb) 5,910.85Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #6 sitemap_6.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 131.45Kb) 5,532.19Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #7 sitemap_7.xml.gz (30,000 URLs, 131.14Kb) 5,531.92Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #8 sitemap_8.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.78Kb) 3,688.13Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #9 sitemap_9.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.90Kb) 3,688.09Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #10 sitemap_10.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.55Kb) 3,687.94Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #11 sitemap_11.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.60Kb) 3,688.13Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #12 sitemap_12.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 88.06Kb) 3,688.09Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #13 sitemap_13.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.58Kb) 3,687.94Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #14 sitemap_14.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.66Kb) 3,688.13Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #15 sitemap_15.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 88.03Kb) 3,688.09Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #16 sitemap_16.xml.gz (20,000 URLs, 87.56Kb) 3,687.94Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #17 sitemap_17.xml.gz (4,464 URLs, 20.16Kb) 824.20Kb uncompressed
Text Format File urllist.txt.gz (1,641.37Kb)
Search Engines Pings
Google FAILED
Yahoo FAILED
Ask FAILED
Moreover FAILED

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why i have

Search Engines Pings
Google FAILED
Yahoo FAILED
Ask FAILED
Moreover FAILED

??????????

in my google sitema tools i have sitemap with 394,464 urls....