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Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

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.

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.

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:

Not Found

The requested URL /forums/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php was not found on this server.

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

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:

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Or should it still have forums in it, like this?

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Sorry I'm so confused, but I know I can get this to work.