Hi dcz,

I'm so frustrated! I'm pretty sure it's that creepy hoster! When I want to view example.com/sitemap.xml or example.com/sitemaps.xml or example.com/urltext.txt, I get a 404 error.

This is my .htaccess:

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RewriteEngine on

# Standarddomain definieren
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

# SEO URL [mgutt]
RewriteRule !\.html$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-([pt])([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewtopic.php?$1=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewforum.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /index.php?c=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-u([0-9]+)\.html$ /profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+),([^/,]+),([^/,]*)([^/]*\.html)$ $1$4?$2=$3 [QSA,N]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-([pt])([0-9]+),([^/,]+),([^/,]*)([^/]*\.html)$ viewtopic$5?$1=$2&$3=$4 [QSA,N]
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-f([0-9]+),([^/,]+),([^/,]*)([^/]*\.html)$ viewforum$4?f=$1&$2=$3 [QSA,N]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\.html$ /$1.php [L]

########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES         #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES      #
#########################################################
# SITEMAP SITE TXT
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-gx-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ sitemap.php?xml=$1&$2&$3 [L]

I also tried it without

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# SITEMAP SITE TXT
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-gx-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ sitemap.php?xml=$1&$2&$3 [L]

as this seems not to be in my installation file. And I also tried the version with /:

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# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES      #
#########################################################
# SITEMAP SITE TXT
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-gx-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php?xml=$1&$2&$3 [L]

When I deactivate URL-Rewriting, example.com/sitemap.php works without any problem. But as far as I know, I can't submit a .php file to Google. And the forum URLs also do not get rewritten when URL rewriting is off. (The topic URLs do get rewritten, caused by mgutt's MOD.)

Do you have an idea what I can have done wrong? Or should my friend (it's his board and he doesn't want to upgrade to Olympus yet) talk to his hoster?

Regards
Wolfgang

Is it working with other urls ?

I know you tried, but since there is a slash in front of paths in rewriterules for the forum rewriterules, you should use on for the gym rewriterules as well.

I do not see any obvious reasons why this would not work.

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Thank you, dcz!

Yes, the rewriting of the board URLs works very well. Just sitemaps.xml and urllist.txt causes error 404 - with and without the slash in front of paths in rewriterules.

I will talk to the hoster and report back.

Regards
Wolfgang

I was talking about the other GYM urls, such as a forum sitemap ?

By the way, there is no problem if you submit sitemap.php to SEs, as long as the url listed in the sitemaps are correct (urls to the topics and forums).

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