quick site map question

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

I currently have no htaccess in my forum root because I placed the info in my http.conf file. So do i just need to tell my host to add the above info to the http.conf file, or do i create an htaccess in my root and put the above in it? thanks!

If you have added the default vBSEO rewrite rules to your http.conf, then that already includes this line, and nothing further should need to be done.

ok, i have installed the sitemap generator and i guess it's working. Well i generated the map supposedly and then submitted it to google, i then checked my sitemap download log and it shows this:

Sitemap Downloads Log
No Date Sitemap File Bot IP User-agent Action
1 2007-01-05 19:29 sitemap_index.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
2 19:30 sitemap_index.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
3 19:31 sitemap_10.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
4 19:31 sitemap_12.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
5 19:31 sitemap_9.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
6 19:31 sitemap_13.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
7 19:31 sitemap_15.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
8 19:31 sitemap_4.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
9 19:31 sitemap_7.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
10 19:31 sitemap_8.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
11 19:31 sitemap_1.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
12 19:31 sitemap_2.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
13 19:31 sitemap_6.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
14 19:31 sitemap_5.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
15 19:31 sitemap_14.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
16 19:31 sitemap_11.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record
17 19:31 sitemap_3.xml.gz Googlebot 66.249.65.116 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +Webmaster Help Center) Remove record

Is that good? working? and where is the file i need to submit to yahoo?

Thanks!

ok this is on my google webmaster page

sitemap_index.xml.gz Sitemap Index Web 10 minutes ago 9 minutes ago OK 709588

Yes, that is fine.

You should submit urllist.txt.gz to Yahoo.

great! ok got it submitted to yahoo. Last question is in my settings i was a little fuzzy on this:

"When Google spiders the old url's, it gets 301'ed to the new url's so the old url's re removed from Google. Include this option until you note that most old url's have gone from Google."

I set it to yes, but am not exactly sure if i should have done that. I'm assuming i should leave that on YES until i notice no more old url's in google..

I'm assuming i should leave that on YES until i notice no more old url's in google..

Yes, that is correct.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Yes, that is fine.

You should submit urllist.txt.gz to Yahoo.

this file was located in my /data directory... I sumitted
the entire URL but yahoo rejected saying it
could not be located...

am I doing something wrong?

Submit it from your forums directory, just like the Google sitemap files.