vBulletin Google Site Map

There are a few vBulletin Google Site maps around, but none as comprehensive as this that I have seen. This vBulletin Google site map is based on Kalius's work on discussed on his site and at Digitalpoint

FYI, the vBulletin Google Site Map modification contains at least one potential remote file include exploit. You are hereby notified that you should uninstall this modification, including the removal of the vBulletin Google Site Map PHP files from your server. The author of the modification has been notified, and the vBulletin Google Site Map thread has been moved to the Modification Graveyard forum.

Best,
vBorg Staff

vBulletin Google site map
with ability to add extra urls
(c) by T2DMan - Michael Brandon

8Nov05+13hrsGMT - update. Added support for Yahoo Sitemap & bug fix
7Nov05+13hrsGMT - update. Thanks for your help.

I have attached 1 version with 2 different preset configs for your convenience. vBSEO and non vBSEO configs.

Configure in the vbgsitemap-config.php file.
$base=""; // "" if in root, $base="forum/"; //if in the subdirectory forum

It now works well with forum permissions, and the vBulletin's scheduled task system. I have personally installed the reviewed vBGSiteMap on a site with over 200,000 urls. Copes with the large number of urls with no problems.

The vBGSiteMap works well with vbSEO, and it lists all the old url's to allow Google to spider the old url's and so find the 301 redirects to the new, and so delete the old url's from its index.

Compared to the previous versions

• Sitemap files now written into their own directory - means this can be safely chmod 777 - thanks Sarah King
• config and class files separated out
• new help file written
• many corrections made to the code - amazing what sitting on a piece of code can do, and amazing what you can learn from personally installing on many different servers.
• Can now work on mysql versions from 3.23.58 to 5+
  

Specifications

• works with v3.03 - 3.5
• access to this file is password protected

the same password as the database via the vBulletin includes/config.php file

• creates an index file and multiple gzipped site maps to less than the maximum permitted by Google (I have in fact restricted it to 3k url's, rather than 50k as my browser takes a while to process the file when checking it)
• creates a gzipped file containing the urls for Yahoo Sitemap

• the site map files are created in the /vbgsitemap/files directory which needs to be chmod to 777

adds

• forums - with paginations of forums (excluding redirects and password protected forums)
• threads - with pagination of threads (excluding invisible threads=soft deleted, and threads inside password protected forums)
• archive forum pages with paginations
• archive versions of threads with paginations
• members

extra

• extra urls from other program types
• add a new url per line onto file.txt, and a gzipped file will be created for it, and added to the site index file.

How to install

• unzip the files
• copy the vbgsitemap folder to your root directory
• chmod the vbgsitemap/files directory to 777
• copy vbgsitemap.php to your root directory
• copy the includes/cron/vbgsitemap-cron.php file to your vbulletin includes/cron/ directory
• look over the configuration options on the /vbgsitemap/vbgsitemap-config.php file
  • $base="" or "forum/" - if your forum is the actual root, or in the forum directory etc.
  • $addthreadarchive=false; - whether you want the archive version of the threads to be added or not.
  • the rest should not need to be changed
  • change to $xtrafile="file.txt"; if you have additional urls that you want included from another package, get a list of those url's and add them to file.txt.
• Then access the /vbgsitemap/index.php file in your browser to get things happening.
• The username/password is the username/password of your database.
• Add the resulting one index file to Google sitemaps: http://www.yourdomain.com/vbgsitemap.php
• Add the other file to Yahoo sitemaps
  http://www.yourdomain.com/vbgsitemap/files/urllist.gz
• A cron job can be setup in the vbulletin scheduled tasks
  
  
  • ./includes/cron/vbgsitemap-cron.php
  • depending on the number of posts/new threads to your forum, set to run daily or weekly etc. The cron will automatically ping Google and return success/failure into the cron log.

[mfizzel]

Pretty soon there will be no free hacks but simple template mods

[StarBuG]

Originally Posted by Cedric_FP

Agreed. Essentially, we were used. Taken advantage of.

Agreed.

I think it is fair to have a product for sale if you spend hours to develope it.
But if you used vb.org for beta testing a final working version should be released here for free and THEN you can charge for every new update, extension etc.

That is fair to us and fair to you.

You owe us that much!

StarBuG

[Unexplained.tv]

I agree wholeheartedly that T2DMan owes us a final build release.
If T2DMan wishes to charge for his work, then do so after you have released a final build to those of us who believed this was going to continue being a free add-on- leaving it in beta here is very unprofessional of you. (If you would have originally stated that the Beta was free and the Final version was a Paid add-on then, that may have been a little different.)

You may not like the idea, but you are the one who created this situation for your own self.

Take the right initiative and make up for this error; then you can begin charging for the next final build and actually regain a lot of respect that you may have lost here. The Rating for this thread and add-on is going down... this shows what the members here actually feel and believe about your recent actions.

[T2DMan]

Seems like I have got myself into a bit of a mess.

I have ears, and I listen. Then free it shall be.

[lazytown]

I knew you weren't a bad guy and I usually choose the right people to have a good opinion of... You made the right call and I think will be rewarded in the long run.

Thanks
-Vissa

Originally Posted by T2DMan

Seems like I have got myself into a bit of a mess.

I have ears, and I listen. Then free it shall be.

[Vtec44]

T2Dman,

Thank you. I'm sure people won't disagree that you can make money from your hard work beyond 2.3 version.

[Unexplained.tv]

I'm not set out against him making money on his hard work- I just felt that VB.org and the members here deserved at least a final build and I personally thank you for having a change of mind.

[Cedric_FP]

Thank you, T2DMan I was getting ready to expect some kind of money-hungry answer, but I'm glad to see that not everybody is like that.

[Cedric_FP]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbseo_url_forum() in /home/fiction/public_html/vbgsitemap/index.php on line 164

That's what I'm getting... any ideas?

[NeutralizeR]

^ Same here...