Nginx no htaccess and no downloads?

I can't use htaccess since I'm using nginx and skipped that step, now I notice there are no bots active in the download log, also Bing & Yahoo have failed the ping. What can I do?

Are there specific instructions for nginx ?

Hello ,

I am not sure what you are actually asking as bot activity has nothing to do with Downloads Log.
Yahoo discontinued their ping service.

Well the problem is no sitemap downloads. Do you have experience with nginx setup?

Edit: actually it does mention 'bot' there?

Hello,

I just checked one of your sites and I saw that the URLs are not being rewritten there. Did you add the vBSEO rules to your nginx configuration file for that *specific* instance? (find the download package->htaccess folder->nginx.txt file)

If so, then I still don't get the issue you're having here.

It's about the other site, I have one forum where I do not use vbseo atm for testing.

On the forum where rewrites work I need to get the Sitemap plugin working...

What are the rules you are using within the nginx config file?

This is what I have

--
server {
listen 85.17.59.138:80;
server_name forum.dutchbodybuilding.com;
root /var/www/forum.dutchbodybuilding.com/public_html;

access_log /var/www/forum.dutchbodybuilding.com/logs/http_access;
error_log /var/www/forum.dutchbodybuilding.com/logs/http_error;

index index.html index.php;

location /. {
return 404;
}

if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /vbseo.php last;
}

location ~ .php$ {
expires off;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

client_max_body_size 150M;


}
--

our default file is given:

Code:

location /forums/ {
rewrite ^/forums/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 last;

try_files $uri $uri/ /forums/vbseo.php?$args;
}

location ~ /forums/(.*\.php)$ {
rewrite ^/forums/(.*)$ /forums/vbseo.php last;
}
location /forums/vbseo/(includes|resources/html|resources/xml)/ {
    allow      127.0.0.1;
    deny      all;
}

You simply don't have the proper rules in place and they needed to be added

if you are in root you can remove the 'forums/' prefix

Thanks and I did look at the Sitemap instructions but couldn't find this. We'll try it.

vBSEO 3.6.0 Readme File
-> Installing under other servers
-> Nginx

I see, thanks.

Problem with this part:

--
location / {
rewrite ^/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /vbseo_sitemap/ vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 last;
try_files $uri $uri/ /vbseo.php?$args;
}
--


I get this error:

"[emerg]: invalid number of arguments in "rewrite" directive"

Do you get that error with the vBSEO default ruleset? or with a custom one?

You seem to be missing:

include fastcgi_params;

Somewhere. What is the full ruleset that you're using?

When I use the code from this post it works: howto for nginx ???

So why the one from the install package doesn't work I have no idea. Maybe you can guess.