Unsupported File Format - every other day

I get an Unsupport File Format for my last sitemap (I have three) every other sitemap generation cycle for Hot Coupon World.

Any thoughts?

I'm running sitemap 2.5 and vbseo 3.2

Mark

Hello,

do you have new sitemap created daily with a cron job? (check your reports list in vbseo_sitemap/ interface).

Yes, through vbulletin's scheduled task manager, it is set to run every day at 0400.

There are 50+ entries for every day in the log report for the sitemap.

Mark

Please try to download sitemap files when you get "file format" error and check if you can open them on your computer.

Nope - can't open the file.

http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums/sitemap_3.xml.gz

Mark

It seems to be opening fine for me, did you regenerate it?

No - I did not regenerate the file. Although I still can't open the sitemap. This would make it two days in a row for a bad sitemap.

What exactly do you see when trying to open it?

I just get a bunch of random characters. It looks nothing like xml.

Mark

Does it work correctly if you manually recreate sitemap now? If yes, please try to increase (double) your max_execution_time setting in PHP configuration.

Yes, it does generate on a manual push.

I mentioned earlier that I have a numerous entries in the report. Normally 50+ entries per run. I have attached a screenshot.

Is this normal?

Mark

No, this is not normal. Looks like you have specified "*" for "minutes" in Scheduled tasks manager, so it starts generating every minute. You should change that setting to "0".

OK - I updated the scheduled task to run only at 0400 instead of every minute from 0400 - 0500.

I also found an old vbseo sitemap generator install of the vBSEO - Create Google/Yahoo Sitemap.

May have been causing issues as well.

Mark

Yes, it should work correctly now.