Sitemap URL is 404 on vBulletin 4.0.6 & Sitemap 2.6

Hello all,

When I attempt to access my sitemap, i.e.:

http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I see my standard 404 error page. Now I am under the impression that this is actually a rewritten URL - so on checking my web.config (this is a Windows server) - I have the following relevant entry:

Code:

<rule name="Imported Rule 1" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$" ignoreCase="false" />
  <action type="Rewrite" url="vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap={R:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>

So that all seems to be good.

I have also checked the contents of:

root/vbseo_sitemap/data/

and this seems to have all the files you would expect, last file modified was sitemap_29.xml.gz at 02:02 this morning.

So, does anybody know what could be causing this?

I'm not 100% sure about yoru ruleset... i will flag this for the devs to look at as i'm not familiar with iis7.

Your sitemap doesn't appear to have completed since 8.20 and only shows 4 sitemap files. If you're seeing 29, something is wrong with the generation, likely timing out. Frankly, 4 sounds better than 29.
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load it up:
.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=sitemap_index.xml.gz

and you can see what i'm looking at.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

load it up:
.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=sitemap_index.xml.gz

and you can see what i'm looking at.

Oddily enough, if I load that up I get the following well formed sitemap:

Code:

<sitemapindex xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/09/siteindex.xsd">
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-08-20T02:02:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_2.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-08-20T02:02:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_3.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-08-20T02:02:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_4.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-08-20T02:02:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

On checking this morning, I now have a sitemap_30.xml.gz file in the data directory - generated at 02:03:00 (GMT)

Hello,

please try to change this line:
<match url="^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$" ignoreCase="false" />

to:

<match url="^(sitemap_.*\.xml\.gz)" ignoreCase="false" />

Hi Oleg,

I have made the suggested change and unfortunately it had no effect.

EDIT : I have attached my web.config (unedited, so all URLs are intact)

Mm.. can you provide a temporary access to rewrite rules on the server to try different variations (via support ticket)?