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.htaccess wasn't in root folder.
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I've installed the GYM sitemaps & RSS, and it's a great mod. I've encoutenred a problem with the rewritng rules. I do not use any URL rewrite mods, so it's only for the sitemaps. I'm currently working on a localhost installation with XAMMP and MOD_REWRITE is enabled. my phpbb installation is in a folder called "community".

here is my htaccess:

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /community/

#####################################################
# GYM Sitemaps & RSS
# Global channels
RewriteRule ^rss(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/?$ /gymrss.php?channels&$2&$4&$6 [QSA,L,NC]
# HTML Global news & map
RewriteRule ^(news|maps)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /map.php?$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# END GYM Sitemaps & RSS
#####################################################


#####################################################
# GYM Sitemaps & RSS
# MTML Module additional modes
RewriteRule ^(news|maps)/([a-z0-9_-]+)(/([a-z0-9_-]+))?/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /map.php?$2=$4&$1&start=$6 [QSA,L,NC]
# Main feeds & channels
RewriteRule ^rss(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?(/([a-z0-9_-]+))?/([a-z0-9_]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /gymrss.php?$9=$8&$2&$4&$6&gzip=$10 [QSA,L,NC]
# Module feeds
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-[a-z]+([0-9]+)(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/([a-z0-9_]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /gymrss.php?$8=$1&$3&$5&$7&gzip=$9 [QSA,L,NC]
# Module feeds without ids
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/([a-z0-9_]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /gymrss.php?nametoid=$1&$3&$5&$7&modulename=$8&gzip=$9 [QSA,L,NC]
# Google SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^sitemapindex\.xml(\.gz)?$ /sitemap.php?gzip=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# Module cat sitemaps
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]+-([a-z]+)([0-9]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /sitemap.php?module_sep=$1&module_sub=$2&gzip=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# Module sitemaps
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_]+)-([a-z0-9_-]+)\.xml(\.gz)?$ /sitemap.php?$1=$2&gzip=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
# END GYM Sitemaps & RSS
#####################################################

anytime I try to show sitemap.xml, I get a 404 error. What am I missing here? thanks for the help.

tolmarc wrote:I do not use any URL rewrite mods, so it's only for the sitemaps.

Meta-comment: Google doesn't care what the sitemap URLs look like, so why are you bothering? Anyway, something like this would work and alot easier to read then the above:

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RewriteRule ^sitemaps.xml$ /sitemap.php [QSA,L,NC]

HB, thx for the quick reply.

First of all I want to learn how this mod works, and actually I'm curious about integrating RSS feeds into the forum.

my .htaccess now is as follows:

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /community/
RewriteRule ^sitemaps.xml$ /sitemap.php [QSA,L,NC]

And I still get 404. what else can I check?

Would be better to keep the full .htaccess to be able to use every URL of GYM sitemaps properly.

This .htaccess is correct if used in www/community/, usually in this case, the right slash is not required and can even cause the 404 you're currently experimenting. Try to get rid of all of them, the first rewriterule :

RewriteRule ^rss(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/?$ /gymrss.php?channels&$2&$4&$6 [QSA,L,NC]

Becomes :

RewriteRule ^rss(/(news)+)?(/(digest)+)?(/(short|long)+)?/?$ gymrss.php?channels&$2&$4&$6 [QSA,L,NC]

And so on.

Thanks guys for all the help, but still no luck. I've edited the .htaccess and it still doesn't work. Should I check something else? maybe I'm missing something on the basic settings.

Maybe It has something to do to work with XAMMP? maybe it doesn't support URL REwrite?

Out of the box XAMPP doesn't support rewrite. You must modify httpd.conf as shown below.

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...
#LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
#LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
#LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Already did this before. Any simple check I can make in order to check that this is working fine?
A simple rewrite rule maybe? I'm have knowledge of php and phpbb, just not on htaccess rules.

http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/advance ... t1219.html

SeO wrote:To load mod Rewrite with Xampp :

Open <xampp-directory>/apache/conf/httpd.conf and replace :

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#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

With :

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LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

And then :

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<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride none
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

With :

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<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

Simple test for mod rewrite : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/apache- ... vt847.html

.htaccess wasn't in the root. I though I should put in /community/ folder.

by the way, how can offer RSS feed automatically for every forum, like the one in firefox address bar?

GYM sitemaps does, but you need to mod all your templates for them to show up, as explained in the install file.