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Problem with PHPbb Forum sitemap!

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Haxelsson

Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 4

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: Problem with PHPbb Forum sitemap!

Hey i recently change my location of my forum, before the forum location was in the root now its in a subfolder: http://www.webbplanket.se/forum/

Now i get errors in google analytics:

Code:

http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=13 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=14 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=16 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=19 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=22 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=23 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=32 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=33 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/groupcp.php?g=34 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/index.php?c=2 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/index.php?c=3 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/index.php?c=5 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/index.php?c=6 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/index.php?c=7 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/index.php?c=8 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewforum.php?f=12 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewforum.php?f=18 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewforum.php?f=27 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewforum.php?f=28 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewforum.php?f=29 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewforum.php?f=34 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=387 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=510 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=513 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=518 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=520 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=541 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=575 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=579 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=703 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=735 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=751 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=754 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=756 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=771 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=772 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=778 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?p=792 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?t=118 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?t=34 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-12
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?t=75 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?t=81 404 (Hittades inte) [?] 2007-jan-13
http://www.webbplanket.se/viewtopic.php?t=93

What shall i change in my sitemap.php?

Line 44-53:

Code:

// YOU HAVE TO SET THE CORRECT PATH FOR PHPBB IF YOU WANT
// TO USE THIS SITEMAP SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF THE PHPBB FOLDER
// AND TO LOOK AT LINE 70 too ;-)
$module_root_path2 = $module_root_path = $phpbb_root_path = './';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);
// Start session management
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);
// End session management

What shall i do to fix this? I moved my forum from http://www.webbplanket.se/ to http://www.webbplanket.se/forum/ because im currently building a website now and i still want to keep my forum but in a subfolder.

dcz
Administrateur - Site Admin

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 13994

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: Problem with PHPbb Forum sitemap!

Well all is normal, these pages do not exist any more and are not HTTP 301 redirected, so, they end up 404.

Your sitemaps is working nicely with correct path and urls : -http://www.webbplanket.se/forum/sitemap.php?fid=10

But Google will continue to try the older ones.

You can upload these two file at the root level to redirect the older links :

viewtopic.php :

Code:

<?php
/**
*
* @package phpBB SEO redirection suite
* @version $Id: phpbb_seo_class.php,v 1.0 2006/12/09 13:48:48 dcz Exp $
* @copyright (c) 2006 dcz - www.phpbb-seo.com
* @http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU General Public License v2
*
*/

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
// You need here to set the correct path to your forum !!!
$phpbb_root_path = './phpBB/';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

//
// Start initial var setup
//
$topic_id = $post_id = 0;
$url = '';
if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_TOPIC_URL]) )
{
$topic_id = intval($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_TOPIC_URL]);
}
else if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['topic']) )
{
$topic_id = intval($HTTP_GET_VARS['topic']);
}

if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_POST_URL]))
{
$post_id = intval($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_POST_URL]);
}

$start = ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['start']) ) ? intval($HTTP_GET_VARS['start']) : 0;
$start = ($start < 0) ? 0 : $start;
if (!$topic_id && !$post_id)
{
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, 'Topic_post_not_exist');
}
$server_protocol = ($board_config['cookie_secure']) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
$server_name = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '\1', trim($board_config['server_name']));
$server_port = ($board_config['server_port'] <> 80) ? ':' . trim($board_config['server_port']) : '';
$script_name = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '\1', trim($board_config['script_path']));
$script_name = ($script_name == '') ? '' : $script_name . '/';
$root_url = $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . '/';
$phpbb_url = $root_url . $script_name;
if ($topic_id) {
if ( !empty($db) ) {
   $db->sql_close();
}
$url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . "=$topic_id";
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", TRUE, 301);
header("Location: " . $phpbb_url . $url);
exit();
} elseif ($post_id) {
if ( !empty($db) ) {
   $db->sql_close();
}
$url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_POST_URL . "=$post_id#$post_id";
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", TRUE, 301);
header("Location: " . $phpbb_url . $url);
exit();
} else {
if ( !empty($db) ) {
   $db->sql_close();
}
$url = "index.$phpEx";
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", TRUE, 301);
header("Location: " . $phpbb_url);
exit();
}

?>

And viewforum.php :

Code:

<?php
/**
*
* @package phpBB SEO redirection suite
* @version $Id: phpbb_seo_class.php,v 1.0 2006/12/09 13:48:48 dcz Exp $
* @copyright (c) 2006 dcz - www.phpbb-seo.com
* @http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU General Public License v2
*
*/
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
// You need here to set the correct path to your forum !!!
$phpbb_root_path = './phpBB/';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

//
// Start initial var setup
//
if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_FORUM_URL]) || isset($HTTP_POST_VARS[POST_FORUM_URL]) )
{
$forum_id = ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_FORUM_URL]) ) ? intval($HTTP_GET_VARS[POST_FORUM_URL]) : intval($HTTP_POST_VARS[POST_FORUM_URL]);
}
else if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['forum']))
{
$forum_id = intval($HTTP_GET_VARS['forum']);
}
else
{
$forum_id = '';
}

$start = ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['start']) ) ? intval($HTTP_GET_VARS['start']) : 0;
$start = ($start < 0) ? 0 : $start;

$server_protocol = ($board_config['cookie_secure']) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
$server_name = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '\1', trim($board_config['server_name']));
$server_port = ($board_config['server_port'] <> 80) ? ':' . trim($board_config['server_port']) : '';
$script_name = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '\1', trim($board_config['script_path']));
$script_name = ($script_name == '') ? '' : $script_name . '/';
$root_url = $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . '/';
$phpbb_url = $root_url . $script_name;
if (!empty($forum_id)) {
if ( !empty($db) ) {
$db->sql_close();
}
$url = "viewforum.$phpEx?" . POST_FORUM_URL . "=$forum_id";
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", TRUE, 301);
header("Location: " . $phpbb_url . $url);
exit();
} else {
if ( !empty($db) ) {
$db->sql_close();
}
$url = "index.$phpEx";
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", TRUE, 301);
header("Location: " . $phpbb_url);
exit();
}

?>

Just make sure you replace phpBB/ with the real phpBB folder name in these, and upload them at the root level, everything should be HTTP 301 redirected for topics and forums.

I guess you can juste disallow /groupcp.php in robots.txt.

Google will find the new ones in time Wink

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Haxelsson

Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 4

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Problem with PHPbb Forum sitemap!

Thank you so much!

I updated my robot.txt file to Wink

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /groupcp.php

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