Trouble with redirect ?!?

Hi!

It looks like I am having some trouble with redirect, I can't access my sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz in my Domain root.

My forum is located at /members/forum/

Here is the .htaccess of the / folder:

Code:

Header append P3P 'policyref="http://www.domain.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="ALL DSP COR CUR ADM IVD OUR PUB IND ONL COM"'
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
AddType 'text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' html
AddType 'text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' htm
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

#Protect Images from HotLinking
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|png|pdf|flv|swf)$ - [F,NC]

#Rewrite subdomains to blogs
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domain\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|ftp\.|mail\.|3ddog\.|affiliate\.|affiliates\.)?domain\.com
RewriteRule .* http://www.domain.com/members/forum/blogs/%1 [L,R=301]

#Rewrite all subdomains to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|ftp\.|mail\.|3ddog\.|affiliate\.|affiliates\.)?dogtrickacademy\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

#vBSEO Sitemap Generator
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ http://www.domain.com/members/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

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

deny from 165.127.85.4
deny from 207.195.244.215
deny from 82.21.22.54
deny from 124.177.139.250
deny from 213.203.218.98
deny from 213.203.218.
deny from 66.69.146.
deny from 82.152.200.70
deny from 193.124.227.
deny from 201.160.218.
deny from 152.216.3.
deny from 196.220.10.3

Could anyone help?

Thanks!

How about specifying a relative path in the rewritten URL.
ie, changing :

Code:

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ http://www.domain.com/members/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

To:

Code:

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

Also, the sitemap index is accessible via sitemap_index.xml.gz
and not via sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz

Hi Shadab!

If I use relative path it tries to redirect the page to http://www.domain.com/home/user/public_html/members/forum/.....



Thanks for the sitemap_index filename. Is this how google checks up on it? I was looking at my google sitemap page and there was a big link to the sitemap.xml file (which did not exist)...

What isyour .htaccess file content in forums folder?

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

What isyour .htaccess file content in forums folder?

Here is the content of my members/forum/.htaccess file:

Code:

RewriteEngine On

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]


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

RewriteRule ^trickster/([^/\.]+).html$ trickster_$1.php [L]

Can you provide ftp access via support ticket for troubleshooting?

Update:
the issue resovled by changing the rewrite rule to:

Code:

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