[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Brathamike

I don't have mod rewrite and I still don't
see the site map and I still get a page that's not there
when I try to viewy site map

I still don't get it

If you don't have mod_rewrite enabled on your server, the standard solution contained in the installation instructions for the vbseo_sitemap add-on will not work.

In that case, try the following...

Add the following line to the robots.txt file in the root directory of your site or create a plain text file (ASCII/ANSI format) containing the line and upload it to the root of your site:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

This assumes your forum is installed in a subfolder called "forum". If the subfolder name is something else, change the line to reflect both your actual domain and the actual subfolder name.

If your forum is installed in the root directory, the line would look like this:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

If your forum is installed in the root of a subdomain, it would look something like this:

Sitemap: http://forum.yoursite.com/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

1. Note that in all cases you are pointing the spiders to the real location of the sitemaps index file, which tells the spider how many sitemap files to look for and their filenames. This index file is created automatically by the vbseo_sitemap cron job.
   
2. Note that what I'm suggesting in this post is to be used instead of the standard mod_rewrite solution indicated in the vbseo_sitemap installation insturctions.