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Old 02-11-2008, 06:43 PM
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Sitemap Location

Im having a problem getting the sitemap generator to save the created sitemap in the specified location. I am specifing the location to be www.xxx.com. In the root directory basically... but it continues to save it in www.xxx.com/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data

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Hello Brandon,

It is being created in the correct location.

The .htaccess directive tells visitors to xxx.com/sitemap.xml.gz that it's there, when it's really in /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/
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Old 02-12-2008, 12:58 AM
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it is not possible to direct google webmaster tools to that directory though... when trying to add a sitemap with webmaster tools it says it must be in the root directory. Please advise. Thanks in advance
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Indeed, that is correct.

The .htaccess directive tells visitors to the sitemap at root level that it's there, when it's really in /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/.
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right.

you submit domain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz to google.
with the htaccess rules,
domain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz actually points do the vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, grabbing the correct file for google, much like domain.com/forum/t123/ actually goes to showthread.php?t=123 and so on.
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my current .htaccess rules contain nothing but the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(forumdisplay\.php)/[^/]+-([0-9]+)/.* vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&f=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^leanbulk\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.leanbulk.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

Is this what needs to be included in order to direct google to the /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/ location or do I need to add a command?
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You aren't using the default vBSEO or vBSEO Sitemap .htaccess.

That factor makes a difference, and negates almost everything I have said. I apologise for making that assumption.

You need the sitemap rule from the default .htaccess.
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This modification was done per your staffs advice in order to redirect and rewrite previously listed google indexed pages...which I will add has worked great. This has been the case for 3 weeks now. Do you think it is safe for me to restore the defult vbSEO/sitemap .htaccess file? And if this is what you think needs to be done, are you referring to the .htaccess file included in vbseo 3.1 download? Furthermore, is there two separate .htaccess files? one for vbseo and one for vbseo site map generator?

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one last thing... the above notation is in the root directory .htaccess file... the .htacess file in the /public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data directory reads: :"deny from all"
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yes, it goes in ROOT htaccess. leave the one in the data folder alone. (that way no one can browse to that directory and view the files and all the bot hits directly)
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You aren't using the default vBSEO or vBSEO Sitemap .htaccess.

That factor makes a difference, and negates almost everything I have said. I apologise for making that assumption.

You need the sitemap rule from the default .htaccess.

can you confrim this is the "defult" htaccess file you are referring to before I make this change.

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
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 /
#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]
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simply put, all i need to do is replace my current htacess file with this exact htaccess file.. nothing more, nothing less, no changes?
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Hi Brandon,

As long as this line is in the .htaccess, the redirect will work.

PHP Code:
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*.(xml|txt)(.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$[L
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When site map generator runs the sitemal_index.xml goes in the /public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data directory... i can only submit the sitemap_index.xml file to google webmaster sitemap location if it is in teh root directory... is there a way for vbseo sitemap generator to automatically put this in http://www.xxx.com/sitemap_index.xlml instead of http://www.xxx/forum/vbseo_sitemap/d...emap_index.xml

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you should submit

site.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

the htaccess rule will direct that to the vbseo_sitemap/data/ directives
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