Google Sitemap Error (Location?)

I'm getting these errors when google goes to grab my sitemap files... Currently they are placed in vbseo_sitemap/data/ but i guess they have to be at the root of my domain / to work properly going by this? (I have vbseo 2.2.1 installed aswell)

What do i need to do to fix this

The location of a Sitemap file determines the set of URLs that can be included in that Sitemap. A Sitemap file located at http://example.com/catalog/sitemap.gz can include any URLs starting with http://example.com/catalog/ but can not include URLs starting with http://example.com/images/.
If you have the permission to change http://example.org/path/sitemap.gz, it is safe to assume that you also have permission to provide information for URLs with the prefix http://example.org/path/. Examples of URLs considered valid in http://example.com/catalog/sitemap.gz include:
http://example.com/catalog/show?item=23
http://example.com/catalog/show?item=233&user=3453 URLs not considered valid in http://example.com/catalog/sitemap.gz include:
http://example.com/image/show?item=23
http://example.com/image/show?item=233&user=3453
https://example.com/catalog/page1.html URLs that are not considered valid are dropped from further consideration. It is strongly recommended that you place your Sitemap at the root directory of your web server. For example, if your web server is at example.com, then your Sitemap index file would be at http://example.com/sitemap.gz. In certain cases, you may need to produce different Sitemaps for different paths e.g. if security permissions in your organisation compartmentalise write access to different directories.

The .htaccess file allows it to appear that it is being downloaded from your forum root.

so when I add the sitemaps to the google webmaster area just put http://www.domain.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz

Do you run your forums from your site root? If so, then yes that is correct. You should be able to test it from your browser first to make sure it gets to the file correctly.

My forums is run from /forums .. I have this in my root .htaccess file to redirect to the /forums directory

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /forums [L]

however this will not allow me to pull the files from the root folder so I'm manually coping them each morning.. anyway around this?

Hello Dale,

you should submit http://www.domain.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz to Google.