Verifying your vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is Installed Correctly

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Without having the mod rewrite, your sitemap generator will not work. Also, your board still does not have the SEOd URLs. I would open a ticket with FTP and admincp access to troubleshoot your issue.

Alright I opened a ticket this morning!

Hopefully I will be able to get things up and running soon.

Thanks.

Responded to the ticket.

How to regenerate sitemap?
I can see someone said control panel /vbseo_sitemap/ but I am not finding this . Can someone be more specific?

Thank you

EDIT:

Oh, I found it

Can anyone answer this - how often should I regenerate my site map - or does it get done automatically and thus I can now forget about it?

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by systemsfortraders

Can anyone answer this - how often should I regenerate my site map - or does it get done automatically and thus I can now forget about it?

Thanks in advance.

Generate your sitemap manually for first time and then vBSEO Sitemap will generate your sitemap automatically

Thanks - done that and added it to Google webmaster tools too. I assume Google periodically looks for the new file too rather than having to be told - e.g. I don't have to update Google webmaster tools every week or so do I ?

Thanks again and sorry I should have covered this question in the original one !

Originally Posted by systemsfortraders

Thanks - done that and added it to Google webmaster tools too. I assume Google periodically looks for the new file too rather than having to be told - e.g. I don't have to update Google webmaster tools every week or so do I ?

Thanks again and sorry I should have covered this question in the original one !

vBSEO Sitemap will notify all search engines with your new sitemap

Thanks

You are welcome

welcome

Hi,

I ahve been scratching my head on this for a dew days
The sitemap generates ok and i get a email telling me about it, but I cannot access it in the forum root and nor can google

its a linux server, modrewrite is supported

this is my .htaccess file - any ideas?

# 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 /vbuploadfiles/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^Millennium Divers Club
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.millenniumdivers.org/vbuploadfiles/$1 [L,R=301]

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]

Hello,

make sure that you have 0755 permissions set for vbseo_sitemap/ folder.

Fantastic

thanks

when I went to the sitemap's link on my browser it didn't download?

how can I fix this
thank you

Originally Posted by CIGAROO

when I went to the sitemap's link on my browser it didn't download?

how can I fix this
thank you

What's your forum URL ? So I can check your sitemap