I am trying to get my sitemap to write to vbroot/. but it is writing it to vbroo/vbseo_sitemap/data/

How do i fix this?

or is there a way to get it to write to the root of my site?

bruss,

please try to modify your vbseo_getsitemap.php file:
FIND:
ADD ABOVE:
enzoten,

sitemap files are physically stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, but you will access them with vbroot/sitemap_xx.xml.gz using the rewrite rule entered in .htaccess.

I could not find a .htaccess file in my forum root and created one with the needed code. The second I did, the forum went down. I removed it and the forum was up again.

Is there a certain way to do this if you don't have a .htaccess file already? Would there have been a .htaccess file there that was just invisible I overwrote? And lastly, and what would I have done by overwriting any previous .htacess file?

TitanJeff,

it is possible that .htaccess file in invisible in your ftp software. To resolve this, you can create empty .htaccess file and upload it to your forums root.

Yes. I found an invisible setting and could see it. Once I removed it, the forum starting working again.

I assume there wasn't one there previously. Why would one I create have caused this?

Thanks.

TitanJeff,

it is possible that your apache doesn't have mod_rewrite installed or your server config doesn't allow rewrite directives in .htaccess files. You can contact your hosting suport regarding this.

Thank you vBSEO.com

Don't know but am asking him now. Thanks for your help. I'd love to get this working.

EDIT: Just got word from my host that they do allow rewrite directives so I assume I goofed something up. What would be the best way to create this file? I'm a mac user and used a plain text editor to create the file. Thanks.

coffee,

you are welcome! :)


TitanJeff,

it should work with plain text editor.
PM sent

"Unsupported File Format" again, sorry. I've read the postings about this topic and couldn't solve my problems ...

When looking at the sitemap generated by the generator I recognize hyphens that in my opinion do not belong there - so my guess is that this is the reason for the problem? If so, how to change it?

Here is how it looks like in the sitemap generated:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">
- <url>
<loc> ...


Thanks.
Franz