Moving Hosts : vBSEO question

Hi everyone, Im in the process of moving from shared hosting to a VPS host

Im wondering if this will have any effect on VBSeo and if there is anything I need to do?

Many thanks

As long as it is on the same domain name, your vBSEO should still work

Thankyou for the prompt reply Michael.

Yep, Domain and everything is identical.... so it wont have any effect with the search engines?

Well I guess that all depends on your downtime. I know Briansol has a nice post somewhere, need to dig for it on the best way to change servers.

Hopefully I wont have much Downtime, I read this over at Vbulletin.com, which I hope will also work,

Move your site including vBulletin and use a 302 or temporary redirect on the old site to redirect your users to the IP address of your new site. Once the DNS propagates, they will be automatically directed to the new server and old on will become irrelevant

ignore that 302 stuff... it's not what you want to do at all. do this:
Is it possible to do a seamless move of servers?


also, some things to keep in mind:

• paths in vb acp. /home/yoursite/whatever may not be the same on your new server. update accordingly.
• chown issues on script-generated files (such as the sitemap). These directories will need to be chowned to your new servers "owner" (or, just renamed to something else and let the system re-create the correct folders next time it runs. (vbseo_sitemap directory subfolder /data/ , /hits/ and downloads.dat)

I think Im nearly done, I put the new Name server info into GoDaddy, now I guess its a waiting game, Im still seeing the site on the old server though here...

Im hoping everything will work, the new host copied over everything exactly.... only thing that changed was my password which I then changed in the VB Config.php.

Im not sure what you mean about "Chown Issues" , How do I do that?

Thankyou for helping

Not sure what "CHown" means, but I have the following errors for the sitemap from my CPanel Log:

[Sun Jan 11 14:46:19 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.102] PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/XXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 47
[Sun Jan 11 14:46:19 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.102] PHP Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/XXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 46
[Sun Jan 11 14:46:19 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.102] PHP Warning: fopen(/home/XXXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

any ideas how I can fix that? Nothing changed at all, all my paths are identical, only thing that changed is the sql data base password, everything else is the same,



EDIT: I just notice when I go to my site map Index URL that its not working, I see the following instead:

Warning: fopen(/home/XXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/mlptpne/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 45

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/mlptpne/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 46

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/mlptpne/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 47
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How can I fix that, I didnt change any of my paths with the move at all....... shouldnt it just work?

Originally Posted by ssandgirls

Not sure what "CHown" means, but I have the following errors for the sitemap from my CPanel Log:

[Sun Jan 11 14:46:19 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.102] PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/XXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 47
[Sun Jan 11 14:46:19 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.102] PHP Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/XXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 46
[Sun Jan 11 14:46:19 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.102] PHP Warning: fopen(/home/XXXXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

any ideas how I can fix that? Nothing changed at all, all my paths are identical, only thing that changed is the sql data base password, everything else is the same,



EDIT: I just notice when I go to my site map Index URL that its not working, I see the following instead:

Warning: fopen(/home/XXXX/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/mlptpne/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 45

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/mlptpne/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 46

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/mlptpne/public_html/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 47
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How can I fix that, I didnt change any of my paths with the move at all....... shouldnt it just work?

Maybe if you delete Data folder in vbseo_sitemap/data delete it and re upload the data folder
after upload CHMOD 777 the '/data/' folder and generate the sitemap Manual for first time

You should set 0666 permissions to vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file.

Thankyou so much, Im now seeing what I should be

Should I manually run the site map now also?

Yes, I'd recommend that

Thankyou for your help, The sitemap appears to have Downloaded ok, however I cannot access the bot activity log, I get these errors on the page instead:

Warning: file([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/hits/20081218.log) [function file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 191

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 191
3812008-12-18----------
Warning: file([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/hits/20081219.log) [function.file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 191

Warning: implode() [function implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 191
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Hello, please make sure all of the files ending in .log in your ./vbseo_sitemap/data folder are chmoded to 666.

Hi there Michael , Yes I just checked, and they are all 666

still same error...

The download log works but the activity log gives all those above errors.

Also in the VBulletin Control Panel, the VBSeo Sitemap settings , when I click that, I get a blank blue screen.

Thankyou for helping