[8wayRun.Com] XenUtiles (Tools)

[Jaxel]

I read some articles from others who experienced the same issue. It seems at some point Google changed their practice and does not allow sitemaps from nested directories. My sitemap was currently at www.terapvp.com/data/sitemap which means it only allows URLs from www.terapvp.com/data. I moved my xml files to my root directory, resubmitted and it worked, no errors.

So now my question is, how can I change XenUtiles to automatically place the sitemaps at my forum root directory?

You're not supposed to submit the individual sitemaps...

You're supposed to submit the sitemap index at: http://www.terapvp.com/sitemap/

 

[Ryan Kent]

my apologies. I went back and re-read this whole thread and I now understand about how I submit "sitemap" and everything else is taken care of.

My only remaining issue at this time is my media_1.xml file is not being accepted properly.

 

[ddmmh]

I read some articles from others who experienced the same issue. It seems at some point Google changed their practice and does not allow sitemaps from nested directories. My sitemap was currently at www.terapvp.com/data/sitemap which means it only allows URLs from www.terapvp.com/data. I moved my xml files to my root directory, resubmitted and it worked, no errors.

So now my question is, how can I change XenUtiles to automatically place the sitemaps at my forum root directory?

Just FYI I dont have the same issues, I did have problems a while back but the latest version runs really smooth for me.

Members doesnt work because I dont give permission for guests to view member profiles for privacy. So maybe you have some sort of permission issue?

 

[Ryan Kent]

The URLs are all valid. I tested them and they work. The permissions are set to where guests can view media and member cards. I tested and confirmed the links work for users not logged in. Sample links below:

http://www.terapvp.com/media/user-interface.16/

I appreciate the feedback. As I shared earlier, the permissions are set to allow anyone to view videos. You can test the link yourself.

 

[ddmmh]

I appreciate the feedback. As I shared earlier, the permissions are set to allow anyone to view videos. You can test the link yourself.

Yeah i read that after sorry. Hmm i dont know, anything in your error log? One thing I did do I believe was totally remove/uninstall xenutils, including files in the library, sitemaps, uninstalling it via the adminCP... the works... have you tried that?

 

[Oblivion Knight]

Not sure if it's been picked up on yet, but the Admin CP link is spelt "XenUtilies"..

Since I'm posting anyway, is there something I'm missing to disable the daily email being sent to my account regarding unconfirmed users? As my community is just starting up, I've disabled email confirmation since they tend to end up in spam boxes at the moment for some reason..

 

[Ryan Kent]

Yeah i read that after sorry. Hmm i dont know, anything in your error log? One thing I did do I believe was totally remove/uninstall xenutils, including files in the library, sitemaps, uninstalling it via the adminCP... the works... have you tried that?

I did check the error log and it is clean.

Let me be clear on the issue. The sitemap generates. I can see it and read it. The problem is Google does not accept it. If I manually move it to my XF root then manually point Google to the sitemap for media in my XF root, Google accepts it. It does not accept the one automatically generated from XenMedio in it's natural location.

For some reason the Route re-directing Google to data/sitemaps is not working properly. On the one hand Google imports the map, on the other hand they know it is not coming from the root so they give an error on the URL.

EDIT: I did not make any changes but somehow the issue appeared to resolve itself so...disregard, and thx for the advice.

 

[Jonathan David Bloom]

I get the following error on my Sitemap.

http://tniwwtcraft.com/sitemap

1. XenForo_Application::handlePhpError()
2. file_get_contents() in EWRutiles/ControllerPublic/Sitemap.php at line 8
3. EWRutiles_ControllerPublic_Sitemap->actionIndex() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 310
4. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 132
5. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /var/www/vhosts/tniwwtcraft.com/httpdocs/index.php at line 13

 

[x4rl]

Jaxel is there a way to add custom url (so that it could make a sitemap of that)?
Am after one for my booru

Thanks

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Submitting a sitemap is useless these days. Google won't tell you accurately what it lists and what it doesn't. The only way to know how many pages are indexed, is to do a in site search through Google. Sitemap makes no difference though these days, as Google is extremely efficient. If the page has a link to it, it will find it. If it doesn't have a link, and included in a sitemap, Google still will likely reject it as no links point towards it.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=156184&from=40318&rd=1

Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

• Your site has dynamic content.
• Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.
• Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
• Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Sitemaps don't seem as important as they were ... but could be helpful in certain situations it seems.

 

[pedigree]

I really don't understand the logic of why someone wants a great plugin but argues about $5.
The time you save with the Spam protection is worth $5 every day.

I wish I got $5 every day for running stopforumspam.com 2011 is running at about 70c/day

 

[Kaiser]

Jaxel,

Whenever I turn on botscout integration no one can register, everyone gets a server error while trying to register, any idea? But when I turn of the botscout integration, its fine.. the SFS integration works.

And also I checked my server error logs.. its filled with things like this:

Zend_Uri_Exception: Invalid URI supplied - library/Zend/Uri/Http.php:156
Generated By: Unknown Account, 34 minutes ago

Stack Trace​

#0 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/Zend/Uri.php(143): Zend_Uri_Http->__construct('http', '//www.stopforum...') #1 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/Zend/Http/Client.php(270): Zend_Uri::factory('http://www.stop...') #2 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/Zend/Http/Client.php(253): Zend_Http_Client->setUri('http://www.stop...') #3 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/EWRutiles/Model/StopForumSpam.php(78): Zend_Http_Client->__construct('http://www.stop...') #4 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/EWRutiles/ControllerPublic/Register.php(27): EWRutiles_Model_StopForumSpam->submitData(Array, 'dMmTvn3PUWtD7E?') #5 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(310): EWRutiles_ControllerPublic_Register->actionRegister() #6 /home/adminbbo/public_html/library/XenForo/FrontController.php(132): XenForo_FrontController->dispatch(Object(XenForo_RouteMatch)) #7 /home/adminbbo/public_html/index.php(13): XenForo_FrontController->run() #8 {main}

Request State​

array(3) { ["url"] => string(36) "http://adminbb.org/register/register" ["_GET"] => array(0) { } ["_POST"] => array(13) { ["username"] => string(6) "minery" ["email"] => string(17) "nikkynn@gmail.com" ["password"] => string(8) "nikkynid" ["password_confirm"] => string(8) "nikkynid" ["dob_month"] => string(1) "2" ["dob_day"] => string(2) "15" ["dob_year"] => string(4) "1985" ["gender"] => string(0) "" ["timezone"] => string(13) "Europe/London" ["captcha_question_answer"] => string(2) "BB" ["captcha_question_hash"] => string(40) "47513e0b36154b5995a286ecfdb700f76a860358" ["agree"] => string(1) "1" ["_xfToken"] => string(0) ""

Is this normal?

 

[cmeinck]

Having trouble accessing the sitemap from /forum/sitemap. I've created the folder /data/sitemaps and CHMOD '777'. I've run the cron job a few times and it creates sitemaps. When I access mysite.com/forum/sitemap, I get the following:

Server Error

file_get_contents(/****/****/public_html/forum/data/sitemaps/index.xml) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory

1. XenForo_Application::handlePhpError() in EWRutiles/ControllerPublic/Sitemap.php at line 8
2. EWRutiles_ControllerPublic_Sitemap->actionIndex() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 310
3. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 132
4. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/everythc/public_html/forum/index.php at line 13

 

[Ryan Kent]

Having trouble accessing the sitemap from /forum/sitemap.

/community/sitemap/ is not a REAL directory... just as /community/forums/ and community/media/ are not real directories. They are XenForo routes.

In this case, /community/sitemap/ is a route to /community/data/sitemaps/index.xml

The index is a sitemap index that will automatically handle the _1, _2, _3 etc of sitemap files. The idea of the route is to make it easier for people because they only need to send 1 simple URL. You guys are over complicating things.

you should be accessing it from www.YourSite.com/sitemap

 

[cmeinck]

you should be accessing it from www.YourSite.com/sitemap

My forum is not in the root -- I've got wordpress there. When I look in my /data/sitemaps direction, there is no index.xml file. As Jaxel mentioned in your quote, "/community/sitemap" is a route to /community/data/sitemaps.xml". I think my paths are correct. It's the trouble with index.xml not being created, which is odd. Not sure why it's not happening.

 

[Ryan Kent]

what is the name of the install directory for your site?

 

[cmeinck]

what is the name of the install directory for your site?

/forum/

Odd that it's not creating index.xml.

I'm going to try to reinstall, see if that somehow fixes something.

 

[cmeinck]

I've sorted out my problem. I reduced the number down from the default 50,000 to 10,000 and it then created a number of sitemaps along with the index.xml. Submitted and Google is happy (which makes me happy).

 

[Ryan Kent]

I dont' have to write an API... Zend's object oriented design permits extending classes. Basically the API is already written.

Jaxel can you please share how we can access or use this API?

I am in the process of adding a couple pages to my site and I want to ensure they get indexed. Also, I am using LN Blog and I want to ensure those pages are indexed as well. I will surely take a good look at XenDiario once it is available, but at least for now I am using the currently available solution.