Moved to hostgator - .htaccess for sitemaps not working

I just moved to hostgator, my problem is accessing my sitemaps from the root directory using .htaccess.

In my root directory .htaccess I have:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks

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

In my /forum directory I have:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks

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]

What happens is that the URL:

http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

does NOT work, its calling vbseo.php and giving me a Page not found 404 error. I dumped the $_GET array below to see and it appears to be trying to call the vbseo_getsitemap.php script.

Code:

Page not foundArray (     [sitemap] => sitemap_1.xml.gz ) 

[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
[REQUEST_URI] => /sitemap_index.xml.gz     
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /home/me/public_html/mysite/forum/vbseo.php
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php

However, http://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz, does work.

If I stick some debug in vbseo_functions_url.php I am able to see the SERVER info above; which leads me to believe that possibly the request for vbseo_getsitemap.php is redirecting to vbseo.php.

The first one should not work and should be removed from your htaccess file and your webmaster tools.

Your sitemap at google needs to match the path.
http://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz is the correct url as your forum is installed in /forum.


If you want stuff in root, you should move your entire fourm to root.