Awesome - got it working.

I think part of the problem is I was using a text file and not a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file works with the rewrite test.

Can you tell me which specific directory I need to have the vbseo_sitemap htaccess file in?

My question is a little different - main site is Joomla and the Joomla main menu has link to the sites vbulletin forum (they are not integrated). Have Joomap and Jpromoter2 and wanted to know:
-is installing this redundant?
-if benifical would there be any conflicts with the above mods?
-any recommendations with this setup (Joomla/vbulletin)?

where is the file "read me"? How install it?

arena,

what exactly is the error you get?

Fireproof,

.htaccess should be created in forums folder.

angiulli,

it's included in the package.

thanks that worked great but just for tags and groups. Album URL's still show 0. I do have album.php enabled and also have them enabled for guests. I manually looked in sitemap file, album isn't there.

Thanks

Thanks. But for some reason, it's STILL not copying the files to the /forums directory. I don't know what else to do. I've verified that they get created successfully in the /vbseo_sitemap/data folder okay. But then they are stuck there.

This is what I have in total in my .htaccess file. I'm not sure what the other stuff is - it was already there - so maybe you can tell me if that's causing a problem or what it's for...

I do not have anything else or changes to the .htaccess, and have tried both htaccess. and htaccess.txt and neither word on my system. I have followed the instructions in the readme document several times, and still am not able to generate a sitemap.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I also can not access the http://www.yoursite.com/vB-root/vbseo_sitemap/ site either to verify that it is set up correctly.

I have uploaded all files, added the product through the AdminCP, scheduled the tasks, waiting for it to run for multiple days, tried .htaccess with and without the .txt, and also tried manually added the sitemap using the Google webmaster tools.

They won't be copied to forums directory.

Do you have the .htaccess in your forums root ? I don't think "RewriteEngine On" is required two times.

Forget about htaccess.txt. You just need .htaccess, copy it to forums root. If it doesn't work then you probably do not have htaccess enabled on your server. contact your host.

the url will be http://www.yoursite.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/ and NOT http://www.yoursite.com/vB-root/vbseo_sitemap/

replace vB-root with your forums directory.

A tip:-

I noticed we can easily link it with Google webmasters account so that we do not need to submit it their manually everytime.

1. First make sure you're .htaccess is working fine and sitemaps are generated.

2. Simply sign to Google Webmasters -> Dashboard -> Sitemaps -> Add General Web Sitemap -> and give your sitemap URL as http://www.yoursite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz and Add it.

This way your sitemap would automatically be updated.

3. You can do the same thing with Yahoo Site Explorer.

Go to Yahoo Site Explorer -> My Sites -> Manage -> and Add Website Feed as http://www.yoursite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Yahoo doesn't update/download sitemap automatically, so all you need to do is to Select your feed and click "Resubmit".

veenuisthebest,

try to replace "if(!vbseo_dbtbl_exists('album') || !function_exists('vbseo_album_url_row'))" with "if(!vbseo_dbtbl_exists('album'))" in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file.

Okay - I didn't think two were required, but wasn't sure if it had to be right next to the next line. I told you I'm a newbie. :p

I have the .htaccess file in my forums root, yes.

Regarding "they won't be copied to your forums directory" - then what is the rewrite actually doing? And what path should I be telling google my sitemaps reside in? I have it set right now to http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/...p_index.xml.gz, and then after I manually run the sitemap generator, and it returns the link to the sitemap, I click on it and get this error:

If the .htaccess file is located IN the mysite.com/forums directory does that mean I do NOT need the .htaccess file to have "forums" in it, like this:

Or should it still have forums in it, like this?
Sorry I'm so confused, but I know I can get this to work. :)

yes you do not need "forums" in it. As you can see your sitemap URL http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/...p_index.xml.gz works fine.

But the one you're requesting is /forums/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php (note the "forums" twice)

Remove forums from .htaccess and you're done.

Ahhhh...thank you. I think I have it working now. :)

"if(!vbseo_dbtbl_exists('album') || !function_exists('vbseo_album_url_row'))" doesn't exist in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php

all what I had added in the file was this

if(!function_exists('vbseo_group_url_row')){functi on vbseo_group_url_row(){}}
if(!function_exists('vbseo_tags_url')){function vbseo_tags_url(){}}
if(!function_exists('vbseo_album_url_row')){functi on vbseo_album_url_row(){}}

Can you PM me your admincp access to check this?

Im a using the vbseo 3.1.0 version .. with vb 3.7.3

and i dont want to upgrade vbseo right now to 3.2.0 ..

my question is ...

can i install this version of generator on 3.1.0 ? and what could happen if i cant do so ?

Show Reports List menu Not working

Been using with no issue for a couple of weeks - Now I am getting this error in Google Webmaster tools:

ahmedzbeda,

it should be used with vBSEO3.2.0.

arena,

what exactly is the error you get?

AzzX,

what is your sitemap URL?

Thanks for replying iojam

The sitemap url in question is http://www.ozsource.org/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Thanks.

Your sitemap looks ok, I've submitted it to Google and got no errors:

Is it possible to have this tool ONLY generate the URL list for the forum (so that I can add that to the URL list for the rest of my site before I run my own sitemap-generation script)?

In other words, my site consists of two sections:
1) an informational site
2) the forum which sits in the forums directory

Whenever I add anything to my site, I add the new URL into a text file that contains all URLs of my site ... I then run a server script which then generates my google sitemap file. What I'd like to do is have this tool generate the text-only URL list for my forums section (and not generate the whole sitemap) ... I would then add that URL list to the URL list for the rest of my site, then run my sitemap-generation script. Is that possible?

That's similar to what I asked before and need an answer on as I'm not really familiar with seo tools - only my question was that the main part of the site is Joomla which has a menu link to the vbulliten forum (no bridge or integration other than the forum is a subdomain) - so the question was if you run seo (Jpromoter) on the main site does it pick up the forum too? In other words would be redundant to run this mod on the forum side or would this help?

Thanks for looking - It is ok now - must have been an issue with google.

I use lighthttpd server, so should I replace the
to
or do I need to add it beneath the rewrite rule in htaccess ??

I have installed everything. I get the following record:

I submitted and got results,
2008-09-15 05:56 2.52 s 139 - Yes Yes
but they sitemap links give me 404 error

I have uploaded lighthttpd_rewrite renamed it as .htaccess and uploaded them. I found no such files (sitemap.xml and urllist) on forum directory.

I had created manually - sitemap_index.xml.gz, sitemap_1.xml.gz

When clicked on those file after once again running sitemap generator, the files are getting downloadable and there's only a blank file while in reports it show as - 139 URLs, 26.43Kb) 26.12Kb uncompressed,

chmod permission for forum directory is - 755, data folder is 777 only the folder and not the files under it

Can I know what should be done now ?

gregmlb,

vBSEO Sitemap Generator has a built-in option to create text based sitemap (urllist.txt file with one URL per line).

realmr,

in case of lighttpd rewrite rules should be entered in existing lighty config file (lighttpd.conf) on your server, not in .htaccess file.

Run Sitemap Generator error help please

If I clear the directory I still get the error. I do have a question since I did install the full version of VBSEO after having sitemap installed. Do I need to modify the VBSEO htaccess?

If I clear all of the files and rerun the generator it makes it all the way to the end then I get this:

no vbseo's .htaccess is already modified for vbSEO and Sitemap generator both. so you just need to upload the .htaccess that came with vBSEO package.

try disabling Generate Yahoo-Compatible Text Sitemap in vBSEO sitemap settings.

I installed this version with vb 3.73pl1.

Starting the cron job manually for the first time gave me a memory allocation error with over 1 gig wanted by the script.

I then cleared the data directory from *.gz and started again - worked.

However, the cron job is doing very strange things.

Let's say I have 48 sitemaps in data with #48 being below my limit of 50000 URLs. It then just adds a #49 with URLs from vbseo_sm_vba.php - no forum URLs added or changed, which is not correct.

So I set up a batch clearing the directory from *.gz prior to the cron job - same behaviour, but now I just have that #49, the index (correct with all files) and a Yahoo list (also only few URLs) in there.

Having the cron job run a second time does exactly the same again. I have to clear the directory manually, login and run the job. That's the only way everything is ok.

Any hints on this one?

I am a vbseo owner but do not use it currently, not installed.

I get this error when looking for the sitemap

I have installed it all correctly on my other forums but this one seems to be a pain and not working, ive run the sitemap generator and it looks ok :

But still not working please help

Im running on Godaddy hosting, i know its not the best but i know it works as my other sites work fine.

It says, Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.officechai.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

• but when i open filezilla, and go to this path, /public_html/forum, i dont see that xml.gz file. if i dont find it, how will google? but yes, i can see a similar file in /public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data
• what is the path I should give to google? It says, You have recently submitted one or more Sitemaps for this site. Processing Sitemaps may take some time. Check again later to see if pages from your Sitemaps are included in Google's index. and the file path I filled int that text box is forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz
• moreover google only accepts xml format, what is that xml.gz format? Do i have to convert it before submitting to google?
  

Which step is correct and which is incorrect; how should i rectify the incorrect one. thanks for the product, and your time to us.

I believe its like a ghost file generated by the script, if you click on the URL it shows the site map is there, thats what google will see.

Google accept .gz too

This worked but how do I correct the yahoo sitemaps?

Thanks for the help,

You do not need to *correct* any yahoo sitemaps. They do not accept .txt files anymore, so the same index.xml.gz would work fine for Yahoo

I just installed the VBSEO sitemap and I followed the directions perfect. But when I go to access my Sitemap reports (I go to http://www.mysite.com/Forum/vbseo_sitemap) I get this error message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mysite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


I installed everything where it needed to be installed. I see VBseo in my control panel and I can see the settings. But when I click on reports I get that same error message. Is it because any reports havent been made yet since its scheduled to run at 2am?

Would anyone know whats wrong?

Sorry But Bump for my post too, still not working