Katelynn,

you can move sitemap to domain root as described in http://www.vbseo.com/wiki/Sitemap:FA...To_Domain_Root

Pebbled,

what is the sitemap URL you submit?

The sitemap I'm submitting to Google is http://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Where obviously the only piece Google ask for in their input box is after the /

as in sitemap_index.xml.gz

I don't understand why it's only the 1st sitemap generated which displays errors and not the 2nd?

Like I say, I'm not a php coder :(

THANK you iojam ...

I Created .htaccess in domain root: (with the code)
I defined "Sitemap Files URL" option in vBSEO Sitemap Generator configuration to: "http://www.mysite.com"

And I then reopened the sitemap generator on my site and re-generated the sitemap.

Now for Google Web Master Tools, do I setup ONLY the one sitemap for /ROOT? Or should I have one for both sitemaps?
One for /ROOT http://www.mysite.com
and One for /FORUMROOT http://www.mysite.com/forum

I have my robot.txt file pointing to my sitemap in the "ROOT" location ... I hope that is right?

Thanks for the help! Trying to get those Threads and Posts listed in MSN, Google, and Yahoo so I can get some people to start really finding my site! ;)

Should I remove .htaccess information pointing to my forumROOT? sitemap generator?

Sorry for so many questions, thanks for the help!

Thanks

Hi,

I hope you can help me with this

I've installed vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator v.2.1 in my vbulletin

and I did everything as mentioned in the Installation Instructions

and everything went but

when I go to add my sitemap in google webmaster tools it gives me this error:

General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.


I don't know what's wrong and I hope someone can tell me how to get over this issue

I've installed this in another website and everything went ok and I hadn't any problem with it and it works just great and a few days later I installed it to my other website but I have this problem...

why do I have this problem with my new website and I didn't have it in my first one?

any idea about how I can fix this, please? because this problem is reall driving my crazy


thank you

thank you

Super Jinni,

What URL did you submit to Google?

Was it the same as mine, i.e. sitemap_index.xml.gz

Katelynn,

you can keep a sitemap in your domain root only now.

Super Jinni,

make sure that you created .htaccess file and that your server supports mod_rewrite.

Pebbled,

I meant what exactly is your (real) sitemap URL, including domain name? You can PM it to me so that I can check it.

thanks for your reply iojam

I've uploaded the .htaccess as mentioned in the installation instructions

and I believe that the service supports mod_rewrite because that already works with my first website just a few days before I installed the vbseo generator in the second website.. both websits are in the same server..

I don't know what's wrong.. and I hope you can really help me with this and solve this problem I face...

it's really driving me mad...

:erm:

not exactly

after I generated it it gave me url like this

www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml

no gz in the end

and I've tried both with gz and without it

and every time tells that sitemap file not found...


I don't know what's worng...