Sitemap not saving

I always get a daily email saying the site map has been updated, but i cant find it anywhere on the server. The default location my email tells me its saved to is:

http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/forum/sitemap_index.xml

nadda, nothing. Can someone help me figure out what may be going on?

My .htaccess files looks like this:

Code:

# 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 /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mazdaspeedforums\.org
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/forum/$1 [L,R=301]

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

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

that location is actually a rewrite of /vbseo_sitemap/data/

Ok, so how do i extract this site map than so i can set this up in my google webmaster tools? I still cant see if its actually generating anything because when i log into my server with my FTP connection, NONE of the dates are updated. Obviously, if data is being written, the new date and time should be displayed, which it is not. Something isnt right and hasnt been from day one.

doesn't look like its working.


make sure the above /data folder is chmod 777 so its writable, and then run it again.

note, it might end up as
http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/foru...p_index.xml.gz if you have compression on (a good thing)

Looks like that fixed it. Permissions issue. thanks