vBulletin 4.x Sitemap 2.6 - sitemap_index.xml.gz redirects to Forum Home

[redlabour]

Hi,

after generating the first Sitemap after upgrading to vBulletin 4.0.6 and Sitemap 2.6 http://www.politikstube.de/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz redirects me to /forum/forum.php. Same for http://www.politikstube.de/forum/vbs...p_index.xml.gz .

Google of course tells me that the File is then a HTML Files and not a *.xml (you know - the redirect to forum.php ).

What could be wrong?

Forum URL:

http://www.politikstube.de/forum

.htaccess (from /forum/ ):

DirectoryIndex index.php

# 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 /forum/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.politikstube\.de
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.politikstube.de/forum/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|redir\.php|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images|vbse o_sitemap)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

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

####Charset
AddDefaultCharset Off

####Gzip
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)(js|css)$ redir.php?file=$1$2&type=$2 [L]
</IfModule>

####ETags
FileETag None

####Expires
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000
ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000
</IfModule>

robots.txt :

# Allow Archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 60

User-agent: Teoma
Crawl-delay: 90

User-agent: *

Disallow: *.php
Disallow: *.js
Disallow: *.jsp
Disallow: *.cfm
Disallow: *.asp
Disallow: *.aspx
Disallow: *.cgi
Disallow: *.jpg
Disallow: *.png
Disallow: *.gif
Disallow: *.jpeg

Disallow: /forum/admincp/
Disallow: /forum/arcade/
Disallow: /forum/archive/
Disallow: /forum/banner/
Disallow: /forum/images/
Disallow: /forum/clientscript/
Disallow: /forum/cpstyles/
Disallow: /forum/cron/
Disallow: /forum/customattachments/
Disallow: /forum/customavatars/
Disallow: /forum/customblogattachments/
Disallow: /forum/customgroupicons/
Disallow: /forum/customprofilepics/
Disallow: /forum/customprojectattachments/
Disallow: /forum/imagehosting/
Disallow: /forum/images/
Disallow: /forum/includes/
Disallow: /forum/irc/
Disallow: /forum/mobiquo/
Disallow: /forum/modcp/
Disallow: /forum/packages/
Disallow: /forum/pjirc/
Disallow: /forum/sb/
Disallow: /forum/signaturepics/
Disallow: /forum/vb/
Disallow: /forum/vbseo/
Disallow: /forum/xml/
Disallow: /forum/xperience/
Disallow: /forum/ajax.php
Disallow: /forum/album.php
Disallow: /forum/albumall.php
Disallow: /forum/announcement.php
Disallow: /forum/arcade.php
Disallow: /forum/attachment.php
Disallow: /forum/calendar.php
Disallow: /forum/cron.php
Disallow: /forum/editpost.php
Disallow: /forum/global.php
Disallow: /forum/image.php
Disallow: /forum/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forum/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forum/login.php
Disallow: /forum/member.php
Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forum/misc.php
Disallow: /forum/moderator.php
Disallow: /forum/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forum/newreply.php
Disallow: /forum/newthread.php
Disallow: /forum/online.php
Disallow: /forum/poll.php
Disallow: /forum/postings.php
Disallow: /forum/printthread.php
Disallow: /forum/private.php
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/register.php
Disallow: /forum/report.php
Disallow: /forum/reputation.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forum/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forum/subscription.php
Disallow: /forum/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forum/usercp.php
Disallow: /forum/usernote.php
Sitemap: /forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

BTW - what CHMOD should vbseo_sitemap/data and the file have?

[Brian Cummiskey]

Your sitemap rule is in the wrong place in the htaccess file. It needs to come before the vbseo rules. Consult your download htaccess file for reference. It should load after that.

/data needs to be 666 or 777, and there's an htaccess file in there that stops direct execution.

[redlabour]

Hopefully after a few years now (!!!) some of your Staff will fix this in the Manual. :( Could save Hours if the Manual didnt tell me to drop the line to the bottom of the .htaccess and to set CHMOD to 777.

Ok, works now ...... thanks.

[Brian Cummiskey]

The sitemap rule is included in the default file.... there are no changes necessary to it, and thus no instructions about 'droping the line to the bottom' anywhere in the instructions. Upon upload, the data/ folder should be automatically chmodded to 777 on most systems. If not, a warning will appear in the vbseo_sitemap/ reporting area alerting you that it is not writable.