[TriMe]

Originally Posted by iojam

Fireproof,

you can check if mod_rewrite works on your site as described in http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-i...my-site-21502/

I am having horrible problems trying to get the mod rewrite to move my sitemap_index.xml.gz to the forum root.

I tried the mod_rewrite check as stated above using this code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R]

and didn't work so I contacted my host and he said that its written incorrectly. He put this code in instead, and it worked.

Options +FollowSymLinks
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^testpage.html$ http://www.google.com [NC,L,R=307]

I was forwarded to google's site.


In the VBSEO instructions I'm supposed to put to put this in my .htaccess file to move the sitemap_index.xml.gz file:

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

but since the google code was written incorrectly for it to work on my site, maybe the other RewriteRule code is written incorrectly as well.

I can see sitemap_index.xml.gz in my /vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder (and the folder has 777 permissions) and the generator and pings all work.



I'm really frustrated and hope someone can help me out.

TriMe