Google/Yahoo sitemaps for TNG site?

[Bruce Whealton]

Hello all,

I was wondering if there are extensions or core features that would create a sitemap of a TNG site? I'd like to submit my information to the Google and Yahoo and ask.com search engines. Just like using Wordpress, or a CMS, are dynamic sites, that change often, so would TNG. So, it isn't the same thing as creating a sitemap for a static site.

Are there tools to do this for my TNG installation?

Are there any other Search Engine tools and features?

Thanks,

Bruce

[Barry Ennever]

See my post today here which I hope may help. Kind rgds.

[theKiwi]

there is a TNG sitemap creator tool somewhere here in this forum...

http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic=900

there are pages and pages of it...

but here's a link directly to the download

http://www.bythedrop.com/download.php?view.6

The forum thread should provide enough information to run it.

Roger

[Bruce Whealton]

there is a TNG sitemap creator tool somewhere here in this forum...

http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic=900

there are pages and pages of it...

but here's a link directly to the download

http://www.bythedrop.com/download.php?view.6

The forum thread should provide enough information to run it.

Roger

Ok, I was looking through the forum and didn't notice that the sitemap creation tool needed to be in the admin folder. It then tried to write an xml file to the domain root directory/folder and not to the folder for the TNG installation. This could be fine, except that I cannot give write permission to a file that doesn't exist yet. It gave me the following error message

"Writing file (final)Cannot open /home/whealton/public_html/tngsitemap1.xml"

I don't know how it could open a file that doesn't aleady exist - maybe it is possible but it didn't work.

Please let me know what you think.

By the way, does this create the sitemap dynamically when new content is added? And then can it let the search engines know about updates?

thanks,

Bruce

[Bruce Whealton]

Ok, I was looking through the forum and didn't notice that the sitemap creation tool needed to be in the admin folder. It then tried to write an xml file to the domain root directory/folder and not to the folder for the TNG installation. This could be fine, except that I cannot give write permission to a file that doesn't exist yet. It gave me the following error message

"Writing file (final)Cannot open /home/whealton/public_html/tngsitemap1.xml"

I don't know how it could open a file that doesn't aleady exist - maybe it is possible but it didn't work.

Please let me know what you think.

By the way, does this create the sitemap dynamically when new content is added? And then can it let the search engines know about updates?

thanks,

Bruce

Let me address the questions above. Hopefully someone else will benefit from what I learned. I'll use my domain as an example to illustrate. The Next Generation (TNG) Genealogy software is in a sub-directory or folder under the root named myFamilyTree, so the full path in this example will be http://whealton.info/myFamilyTree/

The sitemap must be created manually by browsing to

http://whealton.info/myFamilyTree/admin/cr...sitemap_6.3.php

Note that the sitemap generator must be in the admin directory of my TNG installation, which is

http://whealton.info/myFamilyTree/admin/

I'm writing this kind of detail because of the problems I've had in many areas using the software where one thing or another seemed clear but it wasn't.

Next, for this to work, you must create a blank file, an empty file and name it: tngsitemap1.xml - just create a file on your computer with nothing in it and save it with that name. Put this in the root folder on your domain. Give it permissions of 777 so that it can be written to from the application. It may only need 755 but I sometimes run into problems with that.

Note, don't put it in the sub-directory where you installed the TNG software. In my example, I put TNG into http://whealton.info/myFamilyTree/ but I put this sitemap into http://whealton.info/

That is what the software requires - the createsitemap_6.3.php that the sitemap be created and placed in the root folder of the domain, not the root folder for the TNG installation. Also, note that for this application to work a blank tngsitemap1.xml file must exist and have the permissions that allow it to be written to from the application, which means it needs permission 777.

Then once the sitemap is generated and placed in the root folder for the domain, I had to copy it to my application folder. When I submit my sitemap to google it lets you add the sitemap filename which must exist in the root of the installation folder for my application - TNG. So, I tell Google to crawl my site by telling it that I have a website at: http://whealton.info/myFamilyTree/ Then google asks me to submit the name of my sitemap and it has already filled in this information: http://whealton.info/myFamilyTree/

and then giving me a blank field to enter the sitemap filename. There is no option to tell Google that my sitemap is actually in the domain root folder, so that is why I have to copy the sitemap to that folder from the domain root folder.

Bruce

[desiredbard]

Hi All

Maybe I am posting this in the wrong thread but first

the TNG sitemap Creater works ab fab even with the type....google listed within the week

However I run TNG in a subdomain

eventhough the creator sais it created the maps in my subdomain rootfolder it acttually stores it in the main site root and i have to copy it over

Any suggestion on how to avoid this

Second of all this usefull tool,should be handier to dind and maybe get a listing on the tng main page or be incorporated in an update???