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    403 forbidden

    I've submitted my sitemap into googles sitemap program, verified my site, but when linking to my sitemap i get a 403 forbidden error. I've chmoded it all to 0777 and still nothing

    url submitted was : http://www.sitenamehere.com/forums/v...p_index.xml.gz

    What did i do wrong?

    Also just to make sure did i submit the correct url to Yahoo?
    http://www.sitenamehere.com/forums/v...sitemap.txt.gz

    Thanks for the help

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    You should submit this url:

    http://www.sitenamehere.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

    The .htaccess file in your forums directory makes the sitemaps appear to be located there. Don't specify the full path to the datat directory.

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    AH HA! i knew i missed something.

    Thanks keith

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