sitemap no more pinging since upgrade 2.0 => 2.1

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we have just upgraded to 2.0 to 2.1 and

Code:

Google ping: FAILED.
Yahoo ping: FAILED.
Ask ping: FAILED.
Moreover ping: FAILED.

known bug ? I have just uploaded new files and imported the xml as usual..

fixed it,

had to change

allow_url_fopen = Off to On

I guess the ping method changed.

Yes. That option is also required to be On for vBulletin's option of upload an avatar (or a post attachment) from a URL to work.

ho ok thanks for the info Keith, reason I did not caught it previously was probably my board is actually off under construction with VPS under setting up, thanks for the clarification

My provider does not allow allow_url_fopen = On - even for Managed Servers. Is there any alternative - the pings worked well with the old sitemap version.

Markus

CURL - DreamHost but I think you'll needd some code changes, cant' help you unfortunely to mod the sitemap PHP code, no enough knowledge, you may look at a VPS solution to administrate yourself you httpd smtp etc that's free of restrictions
Have been like you in a shared environment some times ago and have been bored of all restrictions that didnt run my site as I want, since VPS all is so better

Hello,

you can copy'n'paste vbseo_query_http() function code in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file from older Sitemap Generator version.

I replaced

PHP Code:

    function vbseo_query_http($url)
    {
        return @implode('', file($url));
    } 


in the new version with

PHP Code:

    function vbseo_query_http($url, $retcont = false)
    {
           ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 5);
           $purl = parse_url($url);
        $connsocket = @fsockopen($purl['host'], 80, $errno, $errstr, 5);
           $start = 0;
           $timeout = 50;
           while($start < $timeout)
           {
            $start++;
            if ($connsocket)
            {
             $start = 100;
             $out = "GET ".$url." HTTP/1.0\n";
             $out .= "Host: ".$purl['host']."\n";
                $out .= "Referer: http://".$purl['host']."/\n";
             $out .= "Connection: Close\n\n";
              $inp = '';
             @fwrite($connsocket, $out);
             while (!feof($connsocket)) {
                $inp .= @fread($connsocket, 4096);
             }
             @fclose($connsocket);
            }

        }

        preg_match("#^(.*?)\r?\n\r?\n(.*)$#s",$inp,$hm);
        $headersstr = $hm[1] ? $hm[1] : $inp;
        $headers = split("\r?\n", $headersstr);
         list($proto, $code) = sscanf($headers[0], '%s %s');

        return ($code==200) ? ($retcont ? $hm[2] : true) : false;
    } 


from the old one.

The ping result is still "FAILED".

Markus

Try to replace the last line with:

PHP Code:

        return $hm[2] ; 


Oleg I think you should introduce in a next version the possibility to switch from the new url pinging to the old one, I see a few peoples on vbulletin.org having problems with v2.1 due to some crap shared hosters restrictions on this php.ini setting.

Yes, both methods will be included in the next version.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Try to replace the last line with:

PHP Code:

        return $hm[2] ; 


Thank you - that worked:

Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: Successful.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: FAILED.

Moreover ist not that important to me...

Markus

someone could help me please sitemap is no more PINGING again but this time I have allow_url_fopen still on On and I notice my RSS urls feeds that are being autoposted on the forum are no more parsed and posted, should be related to the same issue I have with sitemap but I do not seewhat's happening, what I changed is blocking sitemap llinks and rss feeds links being checked but there's nothing in my lighttpd logs and php_logs, I'm in a chroot I have probably changed something wronlgy but cant see what yet , chmods are oks

Did you apply the modification mentioned above?

no not needed , I have changed something other I think not related to sitemap but probably to PHP or lighttpd because the vbulletin RSS feeds systems is also no more posting new feeds but can't find out why yet