No, there is no db error.caps added. just html codes. I waited approximately 10 minutes but nothing happend. Actually, I was using zoints tags and sitemap version 2.2 at 2 months ago. ne error was happening at that time. all my tags was adding to sitemap with a zoints plugin. and I decided to use vb tags system , converted all zoints tag to vb tags with a convertor. and now we are here. just waiting waiting and nothing happens. If I disable to " include tags pages" , there is no problem. But I want to add the tags to my sitemap. so what should I try now?

[SECTION START] tags [8,056.2Kb mem used] [1,064s (+2s)]

ok I almost solve the problem. my sitemap URL number is 15.000 per file. I decrease it to 10.000 and it pass the point. I will try again...

thanksss

Installed. Works great!

Hey guys,

I have installed this plugin! It seems to work fine for me :)

Is there anything else I should do after installing it? Like anything to do with google webmaster or will google and all the other search engines find the files that this plugin generated on my site perfectly fine?

I got this message after running the generator:

How do I manually test the site map generation?

I don't want to wait until it creates a scheduled task at 2am.

Thanks,
Kevin

This works really well thank you.

You update the URL for Yahoo Site Explore.

The current URL in your plug-in is:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htmlfree/request/

The correct URL is
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Thanks.

@Abhik:
Post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=240

Are you using google chrome? I found that when I switched to a different browser it read it okay. With Chrome it seemed to have that error.

veyissen,

try to increase memory_limit and max_execution_time in PHP configuration.

kevinh,

you can manually create sitemap using vbseo_sitemap/ interface.

I keep getting this sitemap error message on my Google Webmaster Tools:


Googles help states:

My sitemap xml file is at: http://#####.co.nz/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz
and the .htaccess file is at http://#####.co.nz/ I have no Forum file so all sub files are off my root directory.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jack

Since you do not have a forum directory, your sitemap should be accessible at: http://#####.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml.gz - if it's not then the htaccess isn't forwarding correctly.

My htacces is :I have now moved my http://#####.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml.gz to my root directory.

I will let you know how I get on.

Many thanks

You shouldn't move it. The htaccess forwards each request at http://#####.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml.gz to http://#####.co.nz/vbseo_sitemap/dat...p_index.xml.gz (but there should not actually be a file at http://#####.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml.gz, it just forwards). In fact, you should not be able to even access http://#####.co.nz/vbseo_sitemap/dat...p_index.xml.gz directly if you put the other htaccess there. It should only be accessible at http://#####.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml.gz. Are you using Apache?

Don't know, why and where would I find out?

Cheers

I have move back my http://#####.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml.gz and Google webmaster tools say's everything is sweet, for now anyway :)

Nah, still got the same errors :down:

Any idea's?

There are various ways to check which internet server is running on your server. But usually if it's Linux, it's using Apache. If it's Windows, it's usually IIS (internet information server). One way to do it is using this site:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph
Insert your domain name at the top. Then at the results, you may get various different results but the OS and server listed at the top should show what the server is running now.

If you're using Windows with IIS then htaccess files don't work. There are still work-arounds for it (since I'm using IIS too) but you need to figure out which internet server you're using first.

Ogmuk- It's Apache.

Thanks for the link.

Does this affect me?

Ok, htaccess should work then. Check if it's called .htaccess, so that starts with a dot. Also check if the .htaccess inside vbseo_sitemap/data is present. This is a different one, which just says "deny from all".

The .htaccess from the vbseo_sitemap-2-5.zip, inside the htaccess directory, should be located at http://#####.co.nz/.htaccess - if you would try to load it from your browser it should say Forbidden. If it says "The page cannot be found" then it's not in the right place. Also check if http://#####.co.nz/vbseo_sitemap/data/.htaccess is present.

There might also be the possibility that your host doesn't let you use .htaccess files. In that case there is little you can do. You can test this with these steps: http://www.webune.com/forums/how-to-...abled-t40.html

I must say a BIG thank you to Ogmuk. You have been fantastic in helping me out with my problems getting my site working correctly.

Above and beyond the call of duty my friend ;)

the installation went smoothly, but i have no idea if it is working properly. can someone please confirm that it is working properly? i'd appreciate the confirmation.
thanks.

On which domain did you install it? If it's the domain from the signature then it's not working. This URL should give a sitemap and it doesn't: http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz

Check if the sitemap files are here: http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz and if you have a .htaccess in http://www.sportsgatherings.com/forum/ which forwards each request to the data/sitemap_index.xml.gz url.

Thanks

* Thanks & Installed * :up:

i installed this and ran it.. nice but i thought this was also required to make links look nicer like giving them a title so i don't have to do it with BB code... anyone ?

That is a feature of vBSEO product, not vBSEO Sitemap Generator.

thanks for the quick response, unfortunately, i don't know how to get it fixed. all the folders/files seem to be in the correct location.

before you (or anyone else) answers that question, i want to go back to the domain issue you brought up. i have a sitemap as you saw on my main site, which is sportsgatherings.com so do you think i need to create a sitemap for sportsgatherings.com/forum? technically since it's off the same domain, i wouldn't need to right? usually the reason why people would want this mod installed is because their site is a forum from the get go as opposed to a blog/website like mine is. let me know, thanks again.

This is a sitemap for your forum, not your entire website and since you can submit multiple sitemaps to search engines, it will help get the more popular threads indexed quicker.

1) Insert a password for people to access vbseo_sitemap/index.php because it's publicly accessible now. (AdminCP -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Settings -> vBSEO Sitemap Interface Access Password)
2) Check the value of "Sitemap Files URL" (also in AdminCP -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Settings). It should be empty.
3) AdminCP -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Reports -> Run Sitemap Generator
4) Check if /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz is there. If it is then it's a .htaccess problem.

Google and Yahoo! fails, what is wrong?

thank you very much for the step by step instructions. i did everything you suggested and after running the sitemap generator, i do see this:
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 294 [3,222.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

and this:
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 1 [3,223.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

Sitemap has been created

i'm assuming that it's good to go.

It's not working yet. Check if this file exists on your server:
/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I see it in my server (I use filezilla), but the sitemap_index.xml.gz is a winzip file. Should this be extracted?

Can you make this so it works with "Check Version"?

No, that's fine. Your server keeps giving a 404 though. I am checking this URL:
http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz

You can start with temporarily removing or renaming the .htaccess in forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/ to exclude the possibility that this .htaccess file is causing this problem.

I removed the .htaccess file from forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/. However, I noticed that when I open the htaccess folder, this folder contains the .htaccess file along with htaccess.txt, isapi_rewrite.txt, lighttpd_rewrite.txt, and zeus_rewrite.txt. I see those 5 files in the folder, but I don't think I uploaded those 4 txt files into my forum/vbseo_sitemap/data folder. Should I try reuploading all 5 files or are those 4 txt files irrelevant? Previously the 4 .txt files were not uploaded, only the .htaccess file was before I deleted it.

Worry about that htaccess after it's working.

http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz
This is working now because you removed the htaccess.

Now the next step is to get the forward from http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz to http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz working with the .htaccess.

1) Upload the .htaccess from the zip, in the htaccess folder to http://www.sportsgatherings.com/forum/ or if you already have a htaccess there, edit it and add the 2 lines.
2) Check if http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz works now.
3) If it does, upload the .htaccess from the zip: upload/vbseo_sitemap/data/.htaccess to http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru..._sitemap/data/
4) Check if http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz still works. http://www.sportsgatherings.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz should now give an error. If so, then you're done.

I noticed that there are 2 .htaccessfiles when I extracted the zip file from here.
The 1st is located in the htaccess folder that contains .htaccess (123 bytes) and 4 txt files.
The 2nd is located in the uploads/data folder that contains .htacess (13 bytes) and index.php.

When I look at my /forum root, I already have a .htaccess file in there (121 bytes). When I upload the .htaccess (123 bytes) from the htaccess folder to the root, do I rename it and just upload it? If so, that is what I did. I also uploaded the.htaccess file (13 bytes) from the uploads/data folder to my forum/vbseo_sitemap/data. I think I'm still getting errors.

I am getting this error:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Shouldn't need to rename it. It's already called ".htaccess". Unless you are using htaccess.txt and renaming that to .htaccess. Which is the same thing.

Better to delete that until you get the first 2 steps working. That htaccess is making it more difficult to troubleshoot. If I were you I'd turn off the custom error pages on your server for now until you get this thing working. It's hard to see what's going wrong when I'm not seeing the precise error.