Unsupported file format

I'm getting an 'Unsupported file format' error on google's sitemaps site. This is the details it gives:

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit. More

I dont know if I'm doing something wrong. But they are in .xml.gz format...since thats what it defaulted to.

Any ideas?

Hello Justin,

what is the sitemap URL you submit to Google?

http://www.se7ensins/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz

I think you made a typo in the URL above:

http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz



But, it gets a permissions error. Make sure you set the data directory permissions as outlined in the vBSEO Sitemap instructions.

Yeah, sorry about the url :P

Anyways, I've rechecked everything in the install readme and I've done everything correctly. Any other suggestions or areas I should look at?

If you can open a support ticket with FTP information, we can take a look.

Support ticket sent!

Thanks for the fix guys!

Any chance you can share the solution with the rest of us? I have the same problem... or the same symptom at least ;-)

update: make sure that permissions for your vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file are correctly set to 0666.

Turns out that my problem was that the position of the Rewriterule statement in .htaccess. I moved the line before another one and now it works.

Ok, great!