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Originally Posted by Ogmuk

This is a sitemap for your forum, not your entire website and since you can submit multiple sitemaps to search engines, it will help get the more popular threads indexed quicker.

1) Insert a password for people to access vbseo_sitemap/index.php because it's publicly accessible now. (AdminCP -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Settings -> vBSEO Sitemap Interface Access Password)
2) Check the value of "Sitemap Files URL" (also in AdminCP -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Settings). It should be empty.
3) AdminCP -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Reports -> Run Sitemap Generator
4) Check if /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz is there. If it is then it's a .htaccess problem.

thank you very much for the step by step instructions. i did everything you suggested and after running the sitemap generator, i do see this:
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 294 [3,222.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

and this:
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 1 [3,223.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

Sitemap has been created

i'm assuming that it's good to go.