I've tried to do the compare html, but its much harder than just making a txt file, saying remove here, add here, place under this, place over that etc. As far as I know this hack is implete or just not designed for 3.5.0 .. although I'm sure its a good hack for RC3 users, gold I can't get it to work.

We are really having fun with permissions, aren't we?
Your permissions are wrong, and by the sound of it, you do not fully understand chmod.:) The good thing is at least you explained what you have done instead of saying: "I have the errors, tell me how to fix".

Please list your directory permissions here. (two #ls -l output) Let me guess, you changed the permission for the files, not the DIRECTORIES as my instruction. You said you changed your root? (I highly doubt,:) do you mean '/' or the base directory of your vB install? When you have 750, what are the ownership of the directory? User ownership and group owership? It is very weird to set a web directory to 750, usually you would need to at least have 751, or 755.

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Instruction I will include in the next readme file:

The script will need to write files to two directories.

1) The base vB directory
2) the archive directory.

You will need to change the DIRECTORY permissions for these two directories.

Let's presume your directory structure is:

~public_html
('~' means it is under your user home directory, the acture directory should be something like: /home/your_isp_user_name/public_html)
~public_html/showthread.php
...
~public_html/archive/
~public_html/archive/index.php
...

You need to do:

1) change the permission for the vB base directory. So
#chmod 777 public_html
(or #chmod 777 ~public_html if you are not already under your home directory)

2) change the permission for the archive directory. Do
#chmod 777 public_html/archive
(or #chmod 777 ~public_html/archive
or #chmod 777 archive
if you use some kind of web based control panel)

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I really wish someone who can write a better instruction for changing directory permissions for me. 50% of the problems using this hack are permission related.

I meant the web server log. Please ask your host about it. You ask them where can you access to the web log for your web site they host.

I have cpanel system, was using wsftp to chmod the directories. As per your instructions. by Root I ment public_html .. its a cpanel permission thing, as base permission. anyway I did what you asked in your intructions(readme, not whats above), but for some reason it was greifing, I've never had an issue with chmod till trying to do this script, I figoured it was RC3 issue not vb3.5.0 .. I'll give it a shot again with your info about :)

.. in instructions above, the only thing I missed was permissions on /forum/ from how you explained it above. I'll try again and post results.

my setup is pubic_html/forum/archive .. your saying in your setup in relation to mine to do /forum/ = 777 and /archive/ = 777, which is what I'll try next, currently I'm in sleep typing mode.

I second that!

It's been a few days now, guess what

http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&q=...e+zoeken&meta=

9.640 listed already, coming from 642 just 2 days ago!!!!!!

Man this hack rocks, you deserve to win hack of the month + hack of the year for all I care :D

ps: just need a better explanation for step 3, I couldn't do that one.

I have a problem though... you're making a sitemap gz for each forum, well, some of my forums are big:
Could you add spanning?

So we'd start with:
http://www.bowlie.com/forum/archive/sitemap_4_1.gz

And when we passed an arbitrary value (make it a setting in the file in case Google change it later) we would move onto:
http://www.bowlie.com/forum/archive/sitemap_4_2.gz
http://www.bowlie.com/forum/archive/sitemap_4_3.gz
through
http://www.bowlie.com/forum/archive/...p_4_9999999.gz
etc

As it stands, Google is now refusing to pay attention to my mine as the one that exceeds it basically causes the whole thing to error.

Oh, and mine contains 50,214 URL's ;) That one forum :D

Does this workd on 3.5.0 Gold?

What are we looking for when this script runs. I see alot of zip files or whatever in the archive section but nothing in the other sections..is this right

yep up and running