NEWBIE HERE with Issues On Vbseo Sitemap Do Hicky

First of all Hello Board Im Chad DieselMinded I Hail from Diesel Bombers - Powered by vBulletin 1000 members in 2 mths of heartbeat ,im sure i will soon be going full fledge with your software ,, for now I just installed vbseo sitemap generator from vb.org and this is whats happening

I followed the instructions , Everything seemed to work fine at first till i clicked the ...

• Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.dieselbombers.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

And its not there i got an error after futher expolation i found the file located at

vbseo_sitemap/data/siremax_index.xml.gz

Cool Cool ...... Figured it was a bug .....

Then I went to submit it to google and they wouldnt take it off the deep path so i Copied it from the data folder and pasted it on the root and it went fine ...

Same with yahoo it used the same file SWEET ...

I now have both listed how ever it appears your software will attomactially update my site map and submit it ,,, if it updates it at the vbseo_sitemap/data/siremax_index.xml.gz location its not much use to me is it?????

Am i suppose to keep regenerating a site map and over writing the one on the root and resumbit them to google and yahoo ? How often to do this?

Like i said b4 i dont think i have something right on this Can you please help me

TIA

DM

Hello,

make sure that you created .htaccess file in forums root as described in installation instructions.

I tired but it woint keep the "." infront of it


And when i draged and droped the File insted for the txt it wouldnt allow it in there i had to drop in the txt file and remove the txt part ,,, But i still cant get the "." to stay infront of it

IS this my problem?

When Trying to drop in the .htaccess(file) i get this error ..

Server Error: the URL .htaccess is invalid it may refeer to a nonexsitant file or folder or refeer to a file or folder thats not on this web

DM

Im using Front Page ill Try to file zilla it up

DM

.htaccess file is required, please try another FTP software to upload it.

When klooking on my root i see

.htaccess

And

.htaccess.orig

When using Front page the .htaccess files do not show in the root with fileziall i have 2 of them i will add what the instructions say to add to it and over write it using filezilla Do i need to resubmit my trees ?

You should modify your .htaccess accordingly then.

I have a .htaccess File on the forum root that if open in a text editor says..

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

Im not sure this was here before ? I tried to drag and drop the .htacess file in there using filezilla then i seen there was one there already i then just Closed the overwrite window no knowing if the one i had was the right one , when i check it by downloading and renaming .txt it was the same so its on there

DM

Great, your sitemap is working now: http://www.dieselbombers.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Sweet I will resubmit ..

And FYI dont use Front Page for this

DM

Forgot something

THANK YOU!

Hold on a second that may be the sitemap i pasted on there from the data foilder ... Ill delete it...... and try again

Ok I deleted my make shift sitemap and the links still working