Verifying your vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is Installed Correctly

I posted this same message in the announcement section on this website and have since found this, so sorry for putting my question in the wrong place. I just installed the VBSEO sitemap and I followed the directions perfect. But when I go to access my Sitemap reports (I go to http://www.mysite.com/Forum/vbseo_sitemap) I get this error message: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mysite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I installed everything where it needed to be installed. I see VBseo in my control panel and I can see the settings. But when I click on reports I get that same error message. Is it because any reports havent been made yet since its scheduled to run at 2am? Would anyone know whats wrong?

try re-FTP'ing the files up. Sounds like maybe one file got cut off half way through transfer or something.

Additionally, did you add the line to your htaccess file? It sounds like you're on IIS... which may not necessarily support htaccess files depending on your version/ISAPI filter version.


To directly answer your question, No, you would still be able to access the reports area even without it running yet.

When i go to http://www.eximiusclan.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

What i get is a white page with this: http://www.eximiusclan.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz 2008-09-23T05:33:38+00:00

Am i missing anything or is supposed to work that way?

That looks correct to me.

Tkx Michael i just wanted to make sure it was well done (so many ppl with doubts about it).

we also need to add sitemap1.xml.gz sitemap2.xml.gz etc ? or only the index one ?

Originally Posted by konstantinos

we also need to add sitemap1.xml.gz sitemap2.xml.gz etc ? or only the index one ?

only the index. It will contain links to the others which google will find and crawl

Hey folks, I'll chime in with my problem. Hopefully it's a quick fix. When I follow the link to http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/fo...p_index.xml.gz I get a 404 page. I took a look in the admincp to see if my homepage url was in lower case, and it was. What else should I look for to fix the problem?

What are the contents of your .htaccess file?

Code:

# 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=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ 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]

This is in the http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/ folder

What if you try changing:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)

To:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap/)

Code:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
- <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="Index of /schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/site.../siteindex.xsd">
- <sitemap>
 <loc>http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/fo...temap_1.xml.gz</loc> 

 <lastmod>2008-10-16T19:12:20+00:00</lastmod> 

 </sitemap>


- <sitemap>
 <loc>http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/fo...temap_2.xml.gz</loc> 

 <lastmod>2008-10-16T19:12:20+00:00</lastmod> 

 </sitemap>


- <sitemap>
 <loc>http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/fo...temap_3.xml.gz</loc> 

 <lastmod>2008-10-16T19:12:20+00:00</lastmod> 

 </sitemap>


 </sitemapindex>

This is what I get now. Is this correct?

That is how it should look yes.

Thanks Michael! I appreciate it very much.

Hi - I just checked my google sitemap and i found an error. the http://gomorocco.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz doesn't exist anymore, i tried and generate a new one and it's not working for me, what am i missing?