[Forum] Location of the SiteMap files?

[neal007]

I thought the sitemap stuff had to reside in the root of a site? Is it allowable to have the sitemap information that vB 4 generates in a sub-folder such as ./sitemap?

[Chuta]

Hello Neal,

You can set a custom route under vB Options -> XML Sitemap -> Sitemap File Path.

[neal007]

Thank you, and I have done that, but it was brought to my attention, the info below:

http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#location

[Eternal_]

What is an example of what to put in this field in the vB Options -> XML Sitemap -> Sitemap File Path.

I keep getting an error

[neal007]

I put in "./sitemap"

[Eternal_]

I put in "./sitemap"

I tried that and /sitemap and ../sitemap and nothing seems to work. Do I need to go to my ftp client and make a new directory folder labeled sitemap and it will work? Do I need to change permissions or something?

ok made the directory with permissions 755 and used ./sitemap and it worked. Now what?

[vinzphua]

That's it. Nothing left to be done. The submissions will be made automatically.

If you have a Google Webmaster Tools account, go check whether your sitemap has been submitted. If you look Site Configuration -> Sitemaps you will see a list of submitted sitemaps. You may have to click "Show Submissions: All" on the right of the page, above the list of sitemaps. You should see "forum/xmlsitemap.php" listed once your forum submits the list to Google.

[voglermc]

I've tried every possible setting for this and still get an error.
./store_sitemap

[XLCR GODFATHER]

getting same error ./sitemap and all variations with permissions set at 755

[Inspector Gadget]

I also am getting an error no matter how I try to save a site map I get error :You did not enter a valid value for this setting.
My site files and forum are setup in my root folder you know the www or Public Html folder...I have no clue. I am attempting to set it to save the sitemap so Google will index my site.
Please advise in English..lol

[Trevor Hannant]

Have you tried permissions set to 0777?

[Inspector Gadget]

And that brings me to the other post...

I need a little more information about permission 777 like where are you even able to choose that? And what are you talking about?
lol
Ok sometimes I am totally clueless. Sorry
And which is it 777 which I see you wrote or 755 that I see a couple post above that?\
See how easy this really gets screwed up and confusing?

[Trevor Hannant]

In your FTP program or hosting control panel, you will be able to set the permissions on directories and files. We recommend using 0777 for the directory you're using for the sitemaps.

[Inspector Gadget]

Ok I will try that so Let me see if I got this right...

Oh and thanks also...

So I go into my FTP program and set up 0777 permission for a root folder... ( I was just going to save to / Then whatever the Board should save the file as.

Then I should be able to go into VB control panel and add the / to file path and that should be it?

[Inspector Gadget]

Ok what I have done...

since as I mentioned my site is root of html
I have granted 777 to the folder, is this ok? I did this in my CPanel for my site.
Next I went to the forum admin cp then tried to paste this in for the location...
/public_html/store_sitemap
first I tried it with just /public_html then received an error so I tried as I listed above, no matter what I attempt to place in I get the same error
Error:You did not enter a valid value for this setting.