Why wont www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz work?

Iam so confused with what i should have in my .htaccess file. i have both vbseo 3.0 and sitemap generator. Also I cant get mywww.dentallabnetwork.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz
http://www.dentallabnetwork.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz to display anything, everything else seems to run fine. Will that keep sitemap generator from running properly? Thanks in advance.

Hello Travis
http://www.dentallabnetwork.com/forums/
your forums give me 404 error.

I had to delete my .htaccess file its giving me problems, its working again. (my site)

Did you run sitemap generator ?

yes, it runs with no problems.

here is what i have in my .hccccess file


# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.dentallabnetwork\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.dentallabnetwork.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

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

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

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

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

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

Remove those bottom 2 lines and see if that helps anything

I also see more duplicate content in that file, be sure your lines are unique

if i use the original .hccccess file from the zipped dl it doesn't work.

Hello Travis ,

What error do you receive when you use the default .htaccess ?

i get a ERROR 404 - PAGE NOT FOUND on forums page, then main page comes up as files but i use a redirect to the forums in the isp control panel.

Is this acceptable? http://www.dentallabnetwork.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz
I put the .htaccess file inside the forums folder. How will I know if everything is working ok?
Do i need a robots.txt file?

You cannot use the default .htaccess without fixing it to your needs....

Another problem is every time i change my .htaccess file the other .htaccess file in the data folder also in the root change with it. If my sitemap works using http://www.dentallabnetwork.com/foru...p_index.xml.gz does that mean its good for search engines? I am sorry I am new to all this.

Hello Travis ,

Yous hall upload vBSEO .htaccess to your forum root folder. So in your case you shall upload it to /forum/ folder. Your sitemap is working as it is expected