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I successfully generated my sitemap and am now attempting to submit it to google. I provided them the following link http://domainname.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

It detected my sitemap and then a few minutes later returned some errors about certain addresses weren't allowed. These particular address were ones that I added to to the extra-urls.txt. They are addresses of the content on my main site, not within the /forum folder.

How can I fix this so they all get submitted successfully?

Thanks

Hello Joey,

according to google sitemap protocol you can only add the URLs that reside on the same level as your sitemap or below, i.e. they should be starting with http://domainname.com/forum/ (http://domainname.com/page.html is not allowed in this case).

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OK, having another problem. I regenerated my site map and went to the URL of the XML file. The index file is displayed but it's showing that my sitemap files are in a location that does not exist.
When I goto http://www.mydomain.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz that file does not exist there. It's in the /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data folder. I know for a fact, google wont be able to download these since they dont exist.

What am I doing wrong here?

Similar to sitemap_index, sitemap_X.xml.gz files are stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, but can still be accessed via forums root as long as you have mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess file (default vBSEO's .htaccess already has these rules).

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If that was the case, I should then be able to browse to http://www.mydomain.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz and have it pull up my file correct? When I go there, the page cannot be found.

Here is my entire /forum/.htaccess file contents.


# 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\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


What am I doing wrong here?

Yes, /forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz should work fine and it actually seems to work with your domain for me (I just tried this).

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I am able to pull the sitemap up via browser now but ran into another problem. See the other thread I created.

One day I'll get this right...LOL