Just stopped working???

Hello All

My VBSEO sitemaps have been working fine for ages

I checked my google sitemap page the other day, and all sitemaps across both of my websites are on error.

The error i get from google is

Empty Sitemap
Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your Sitemap.

When I try and re-run the sitemap program, I get the following with a 500 internal sever error.

[homepage] [3,389.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [3,390.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 27, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [3,390.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 67, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [3,407.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 98, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [3,407.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 3, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [3,408.7Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 4, total threads: 5495, pages: 220 [3,409.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 23, total threads: 11, pages: 1 [3,562.7Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 35, total threads: 159, pages: 7 [3,563.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 52, total threads: 243, pages: 10 [3,568.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 6, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [3,575.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 7, total threads: 4591, pages: 184 [3,576.0Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 8, total threads: 1135, pages: 46 [3,703.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 60, total threads: 61, pages: 3 [3,734.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 10, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [3,736.1Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 11, total threads: 654, pages: 27 [3,736.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 12, total threads: 305, pages: 13 [3,755.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 13, total threads: 378, pages: 16 [3,766.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 57, total threads: 94, pages: 4 [3,776.9Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 85, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [3,780.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 100, total threads: 7, pages: 1 [3,780.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 101, total threads: 20, pages: 1 [3,781.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 102, total threads: 15, pages: 1 [3,782.4Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 103, total threads: 7, pages: 1 [3,783.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 104, total threads: 15, pages: 1 [3,784.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 105, total threads: 11, pages: 1 [3,785.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 14, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [3,785.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 53, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [3,786.4Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 93, total threads: 15, pages: 1 [3,787.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 90, total threads: 17, pages: 1 [3,788.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 91, total threads: 23, pages: 1 [3,789.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 89, total threads: 10, pages: 1 [3,789.7Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 92, total threads: 8, pages: 1 [3,790.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 86, total threads: 14, pages: 1 [3,791.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 87, total threads: 19, pages: 1 [3,792.1Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 88, total threads: 11, pages: 1 [3,792.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 96, total threads: 9, pages: 1 [3,793.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 15, total threads: 216, pages: 9 [3,794.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 16, total threads: 308, pages: 13 [3,800.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 25, total threads: 638, pages: 26 [3,809.5Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 45, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [3,827.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 46, total threads: 30, pages: 2 [3,828.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 47, total threads: 37, pages: 2 [3,829.6Kb mem used] [0s (+-0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 48, total threads: 28, pages: 2 [3,831.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 43, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [3,832.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

Internal Server Error

On my 2nd site, i just get the instant 500 internal server error, without none of the above???

This all happened after I changed from ioncube to zend.

Nothing else has changed as far as im aware.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Paul

Hello,

please check your server's error log for more details about the error.

The error log shows:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ZendFastCGI
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 13/02/2007
Time: 11:25:06
User: N/A
Computer: WEB
Description:
Can not read response from C:\Program Files\Zend\Core\bin\php-cgi.exe - [109]


It's a Windows Server 2003 box with IIS6. We run several other .php sites (forums & ecommerce stores) which all work absolutely fine with php-cgi.exe so maybe it's something to do with trying to create the actual .gz compressed archive file (which is unique to vbseo sitemap) that is causing it?


Thanks

Paul

Probably the script simply times out. Please try to increase max_execution_time setting in php.ini and timeout setting for scripts in IIS config.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Probably the script simply times out. Please try to increase max_execution_time setting in php.ini and timeout setting for scripts in IIS config.

The script execution time is set to 30 secs. The error happens almost instantly

The error occurs since the host moved to using Zend Core (which installs PHP 5.2.1 RC2) and to the Zend version of vbseo.



Thanks

Paul

You can try to execute vbseo_sitemap.php from command line and check its output.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

You can try to execute vbseo_sitemap.php from command line and check its output.

Running it from the command line just opens it in text editor or IE depending on which application is specified for the .php extension?

I have noticed that when we try to run the generator the .txt log file gets created ok - it seems to error just before it creates the actual .gz sitemap itself.

Running it from the command line just opens it in text editor or IE depending on which application is specified for the .php extension?

I suppose you have IIS server, you should associate php files with php.exe command line interpreter.

For the past week or so, only one site is getting pinged.

Do you mean that sitemap is not generated on you 2nd site? If so, please try to create it manually via vbseo_sitemap/ interface.

http://yourforumpath/vbseo_sitemap/

Check here: Yahoo problem

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

I suppose you have IIS server, you should associate php files with php.exe command line interpreter.

Well the good news is that this works - the .gz sitemap file get created successfully - thank you.

The event log lists the following error each time it is run though:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: (100)
Event ID: 1000
Date: 24/02/2007
Time: 16:24:11
User: N/A
Computer: WEB
Description:
Faulting application php.exe, version 5.2.1.1, faulting module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.42, fault address 0x0001e7b9.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 70 68 70 ure php
0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 35 2e 32 .exe 5.2
0020: 2e 31 2e 31 20 69 6e 20 .1.1 in
0028: 6d 73 76 63 72 38 30 2e msvcr80.
0030: 64 6c 6c 20 38 2e 30 2e dll 8.0.
0038: 35 30 37 32 37 2e 34 32 50727.42
0040: 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 at offs
0048: 65 74 20 30 30 30 31 65 et 0001e
0050: 37 62 39 7b9

Most importantly we do now have a way of creating the sitemaps as I can create a batch file to run the script. Is it possible to still get it to automatically ping Google form the batch file though?

Thanks