how to install sitemap in my forum

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

http://www.XXXXXX.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz I get this output:
I have a german site. So I try to translate it in the (my translation)

That's only a message telling that there is no stylesheet attached to the sitemap, which is not required. Feel free to submit it to Google.

[Parker Clack]

Ok. I have vBSEO 3.1.0 and Sitemap Generator v2.1 on my server. I have read everything in the install docs and have found all the files that were generated for me in the /vbseo_sitemap/data directory. In my Sitemap settings I have left the Sitemap Files directory blank as suggested in the form but nothing shows up on the report page. If I put in the url to my data directory I the form I get a Permissions error to the directory even though it is set to 777. Also, there is no sitemap_index.xml in that directory. All that is in there are sitemap_1.xml.gz to sitemap_203.xml.gz.

If I go to Google and try to upload a sitemap and point it to the index.xml file there is no file to direct it to. Which file should I use?

Also, in the directions of both vBSEO and Sitemap it says to put the .htaccess file in your forum root. I am not really clear if this should go in http://mysite.com or http://mysite.com/forum but I do know that if I put it in http://mysite.com nothing gets rewritten. If I put it in http://mysite.com/forum everything seems to be working just fine.

Thanks,
Parker Clack
Using vBulletin 3.5.4
vBSEO 3.1.0 Gold
vBSEO Sitemap Generator v 2.1

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

what are the last output lines when you run Sitemap Generator via vbseo_sitemap/ interface?

[Parker Clack]

I am not sure what you mean by the last lines. I didn't sit around and wait for the sitemap generator to go through its paces as it created 213 .xml files and then ran the next time as a cron. Would this be in the log file?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Please try to execute it manually in browser so that we can check if the process completed successfully. That should not take very long.

[charlesa6]

Hello ,

You can download it from https://www.vbseo.com/downloads/ then check the readme.html file located inside docs folder for detailed instructions.

When I click download section then click the link to my site it's showing 63 members 18 guests, but the actual members is 6 and the guests is 18. If I click to my site without the Vbseo download link I will get exact figures reported.
Is there any way I can get that high numbers reported on my side without click on vbseo link to my site? I'm not getting enough spiders on my site, I don't know why maybe I'm just starting out or I need more powerful configurations or what?
Any feedback or suggestion on this.