Use Sitemaps

[Grinderhand]

Not necessary to change those lines - they're commented out anyway.

If it was working for you, just uninstall the sitemap and remove the x2yzseo_sitemap directory in your forum root and the one xml as noted above.

 

[Error47]

What will I accomplish after uninstalling the sitemap? Are you saying now that I don't have to uninstall x2yzseo vbseo?

 

[Grinderhand]

No, you don't have to install x2yzseo, just the sitemap. If you haven't already uninstalled it, before you do, check the write permissions on the /x2yxseo_sitemap/data directory. It should be 777 if you followed the install instructions.

 

[Error47]

I don't have a /x2yxseo_sitemap/ directory, I have a /vbseo_sitemap/ directory.
And I just changed it to 777 now.

 

[Grinderhand]

Well, shit, that explains why it's not working. Change the following line in your .htaccess file and you should be fine.

change

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ x2yzseo_sitemap/x2yzseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

to

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

Then run your sitemap generator in admincp and see if you can view them in your browser as explained above.

 

[Error47]

Ok, I changed that. I ran the sitemap generator and it still give me page not found when I look for http://myforum.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz .

and for some reason my FTP client cannot connect to my host now.

 

[Grinderhand]

Argh! Ok, do the most of the files within the vbseo_sitemap directory begin with the prefix vbseo_ or no?

 

[Error47]

yes they all have vbseo_ in them

 

[Grinderhand]

Ok, one hurdle done. Now, check the vbseo_sitemap/data directory and make sure that the sitemap files are indeed there. You might have to do this in cPanel due to the .htaccess in that directory that "denies all".

 

[Error47]

in the vbseo_sitemap/data :

sitemap_index.xml.gz
sitemap_1.xml.gz
urllist.txt.gz

 

[Grinderhand]

PM me your sie URL please.