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XML SiteMap File is bad on two sites since upgrade.  I have read every thing on this forum and tried all with no good results.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hello,

the sitemap seems to be empty. Can you open sitemap.xml via FTP and check if it contains URLs inside?

They are empty.

Please make sure that you have 0666 permissions set for sitemap.xml/ror.xml and recreate sitemap.

They are.

Permissions are 666, builds new empty file.  I need to get this fixed.  Google is not indexing two of my sites.  I would like to do a clean install.

Will deleteing all of the generator directory be enough to do a clean install?

What other files (is there a list of install files), that are not in this directory, do I need to get rid of to do a clean install?

Which files sould I keep (database access etc..)?

You can do the following:
- rename existing generator folder to "generator2"
- remove sitemap.xml and ror.xml files in domain root
- re-create empty folder named "generator" and upload fresh generator files to it, set data/ folder to 0777
- re-create empty files sitemap.xml and ror.xml and set permissions to 0666 to them again.

Which files do I keep for database access?

Are sitemap.xml and ror.xml the only files outside of the generator directory?

Sitemap generator doesn't have database access parameters, it crawls your site without connecting to db.
Yes, those are the only files outside of generator folder.

I did all above and it worked on [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ], but not on [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]. I have my host looking into it and will report any solution I can.

Please PM me generator URL/login to check that.

The problem was in the .htaccess file.  vbseo must have wrote this rule to the file when I installed it.  I removed the plug-in for vbulletin about the time the problem started, but never knew the .htaccess file was changed.

This is the extra code in file:
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Hello,

I'm glad you got it sorted!