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Old 07-19-2006, 02:25 AM
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Unsupported file format

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

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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?
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Old 07-19-2006, 08:54 AM
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Re: Unsupported file format

Hello Justin,

what is the sitemap URL you submit to Google?
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Old 07-19-2006, 12:40 PM
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Re: Unsupported file format

http://www.se7ensins/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz
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Re: Unsupported file format

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.
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Re: Unsupported file format

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?
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Re: Unsupported file format

If you can open a support ticket with FTP information, we can take a look.
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Support ticket sent!
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Thanks for the fix guys!
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Any chance... ?

Any chance you can share the solution with the rest of us? I have the same problem... or the same symptom at least ;-)
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update: make sure that permissions for your vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat file are correctly set to 0666.
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It was .htaccess

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.
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Ok, great!
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