Quick Site Map Question

We are still not sure what to do with this link

http://www.puremarketprofits.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

It leads to our forum home page.

Is it supposed to do that?

What are we supposed to do with that link?

Thanks in advanced.

I do believe we are using the .htaccess file belonging to vbseo.

I'm not sure what the .htaccess file should have, but we do have this code installed:

Code:

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

What else are we missing?

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

Is that the entire contents of the .htaccess located in your forum root?

No, do you want to see all of the contents?

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

Sure, to check it.

This is all we have there at the moment:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forum.puremarketprofits.com$

RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
#RewriteBase /upload/

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

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

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forums.puremarketprofits.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.forums.puremarketprofits.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.puremarketprofits.com/forums/ [R=301,L]

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

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

Remove those last two lines, for sure. If you look up above, the sitemap rule is already included with the default vBSEO rules.

Alrighty, thanks.

Originally Posted by MarketTimes

Alrighty, thanks.

Ok, that appears to have done it.


So what good will this do?

Another thing.

We have renamed or admincp and modcp for security reasons.
Should we update the names of these sections in the .htaccess file where it says admincp|modcp|?

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

Yes

Thanks!