[cellarius]

Hi,

I don't succeed in downloading my sitemaps (if I click the links to the files at Sitemap Reports -> 404) and neither Google Sitemaps nor Yahoo are able to find them. I double- and tripkechecked the following

- dir "data" chmod 777 (definitely)
- .htaccess at http://www.mydomain.de/forum/, at the moment containing only the 2 lines provided for this:

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

- yes, mod_rewrite does work on my server, and there are no conflicts with .htaccess at root level (only permanent redirs of obsolete pages there)
- sitemaps are generated and right there to see and download via ftp, and if I point Google Sitemaps to the full path -> Success.
- anyway: http://www.mydomain.de/forum/vbsesitemap.txt.gz (or sitemap_index.xml.gz) returns a 404

What might be the issue? Don't know where to look anymore.

Thanks for your help
Sven