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I'm not getting any reports from my sitemap generator. Any advice?

Need a little more information

For starters, what version of the sitemap are you using? I would downoad the latest version, available in the downloads section here, to make sure you have the latest build of version 1.7.

Other than that, What reports are you not getting, and do you have vbseo installed as well?

Another question is did you define which e-mails you want to receive the e-mails from vbulletin settings >> vBSEO Yahoo and Google Sitemap setting ?

Sorry about the lack of information. I'm running vBulletin 3.6.4, vBSEO 3.0.0 RC8 and Sitemap Generator 1.7.

I followed the installation instructions in the "read me" for Sitemap Generator but left out the following 2 steps because I was told if I was running vBulletin 3.6.x I would not need to do them.

Open your 'vbroot/.htaccess' file and enter the following code:Apache and mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

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

lighthttpd
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)" => "/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1" )
D. To Configure:

1. Go to your ADMIN CP > vBulletin Options > vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator
2. Edit your settings as desired
3. Important: Enter your Direct Script Run Code (this is also your password for your automated reports)
4. Go to your ADMIN CP > Scheduled Tasks > Add New Scheduled Task
5. Edit new task options:

• Title: vBSEO - Create Google/Yahoo Sitemap
• Filename: ./vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
• Set task schedule according to your forums activity. For instance, to generate a daily sitemap at 2AM set:
  • Day of the Week: *
  • Day of the Month: *
  • Hour: 2 (or any other)
  • Minute: 0 - - -

I'm really new to this and don't know a whole lot about it but I'm learning. I did enter an e-mail address in Sitemap Generator settings in Vbulletin but I'm really not sure what everything else should be set to.

Thanks for all the help from a very confused newbie

Hello,

do you see the reports via vbseo_sitemap/ interface though?

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These are all the options I see for the sitemap generator. Sorry to sound so dumb with this stuff but I really don't know much about this but I really am trying to learn.

You need to go to

http://www.yourdomain.com/yourforumfolder/vbseo_sitemap/

I get the following 403 message when I want to access


You don't have permission to access /vbseo_sitemap/ on this server.

Where do I have to make changes? in htaccess? If yes, where there?

Try adding index.php to the end.

http://yourforumurl/vbseo_sitemap/index.php

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Still the same error :(

Do you have .htaccess file in vbseo_sitemap/ folder? If so, you should remove it.

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yes..now it works...thank you