Sitemap in www root

worked just fine for me with adding the web root .htaccess

thanks!!

When making the changes to the .htaccess folder to

Code:

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

in the main root Directory.

I then go into Sitemap setting in CP and Your Google Sitemap Index URL still reads http://taskforcealliance.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml is this normal? Shouldnt it be ditching the /forums/ bit ?

You should change "Sitemap Files URL" to http://domain.com

Hello,

So funny thing. I tried this tonight with two websites. The first one worked and the second site did not. Weird....

Here is my entire htaccess content:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

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

Google is rejecting my sitemap (errors) and type the address into the browser gives me error (404) as well.

I am placing this htaccess in root and my vbulletin installation is in forums/

Any ideas?

Hello,

you should put rewrite rules for sitemap generator to the *top* of .htaccess.

I did the same on my server, however I'm getting 403 errors when i access the sitemap index from the root. Ideas?

-t

What is your .htaccess contents/sitemap URL?

Here is my root .htaccess

PHP Code:

Options All -Indexes

#RedirectPermanent /index.htm http://www.wings900.com/news/index.php
RewriteEngine On


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



RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(ASPSeek|Deweb|Fetch|FlashGet|Getleft|GetURL|GetWebPage|.*HTTrack|KWebGet|libwww-perl|Mirror|NetAnts|NetCarta|netprospector|$
RewriteRule .* /404.shtml [R]

# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .*.txt.* [NC]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ /404.shtml [F,L]

RewriteRule www.wings900.com /news/themes/Wings900/images/orangestrip2-no-top.gif

RewriteRule help /cms/component/option,com_supportcenter/Itemid,127/id_workgroup,1/task,workgroup_view/ [R]

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


and my /vb (where vb is installed) .htaccess

PHP Code:

Options All -Indexes

# 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 /
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /vb/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [R]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

#this stops screen flicker in IE
#BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
#BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
#BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
#SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary

ExpiresActive On
#ExpiresDefault A18000
ExpiresByType image/gif A300
ExpiresByType image/png A300


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] 


http://www.wings900.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz is opened fine for me.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

http://www.wings900.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz is opened fine for me.

Look at that.. go figure.. i guess i changed enough around in the .htaccess files for it to work! lol