srosenber..

just wanted to let you know that i have joind the party... thanks for all your help, you put in a lot of time helping me

now that i am in, i have a few more questions.

i am using the sitemap plugin, is there anyway for you system to index that and spite it out in xml format, that way i can submite that to google sitemap so it gets indexed

Thanks

please give me a easy tutorial How to install this I put siteindex_v1.0 folder in root

& add .htaccess code

& when I visited the url I get 404 error

I dont understande that part in which you told some thing to edit

what to write in

$path = "<path of your Elgg Install>";

home/username/public_html ??  ot http://sitename.com

please explain me

The instructions are not hard to follow, if you know how to navigate a Linux directory structure, and they do require that kind of minimal knowledge.  They are fairly straightforward and where they were not, it was corrected in the blog, or by the comments.

SiteIndex goes in your base Elgg folder, the place where you installed Elgg.  Based on where you installed it, it may look something like:

/home/username/public_html/elgg

In the .htaccess file within this directory, which is required for Elgg to work.. pop in the rewrite rule using the instructions provided.  (Make sure that the name of the SiteIndex directory, matches that in the rewrite rule!)

$path... Your path is /home/username/public_html/Elgg, or something to that effect. 

It can't get any simpler.

thnakyou Now its done

the problem was about the $path string Ok fixed thankyou for such great plugin

hi srosenberg:

I joined the party also..  i added the rewrite rule and changed the path to

/home/uname/public_index/site/

how long should i wait till ur code will start to write to the xml.gz file....

cuz at google webmaster, i get a "not found" error..

thakns in advance

if i access www.mysite.com/siteindex.xml.gz, i get this

You don't have permission to access /SiteIndex_v1.0/siteindex.php on this server.

It looks like a permissions problem to me.  Make sure that the siteindex.php is executable. chmod 755 siteindex.php should do it.

hi rosenberg!

nops, its all ok.. i tried with 755ing the siteindex.php, doenst work..

i deleted some lines from .htaccess, ran the link, added again.. works..

thanks :)

great script and thanks for the script but

huh i did it all the ways but no use. please write installation steps clearly.

my elgg script installed on the root folder ex : under public_html/

and i installed the script under /public_html/siteindex/

under the .htaccess i added the following code

#Rewrite Rules for Planphoria SiteIndex
RewriteRule ^site([A-Za-z]+).xml(|.gz) siteindex/siteindex.php?m=$1&g=$2

and under siteindex.php
i added the root path : example : "/home/username/public_html"

i tried to excute the script with http://mysitename.com/siteindex/siteindex.php

nothing happend! no effect! just blank script. .gz file not created in my siteindex folder.

please help how to install the script.

jagadish.p

by default my siteindex.php php file permission is 644 and all sites scripts in my server all to 644 only. i tried to changed the permission to 755 and i got the following error

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@netkushi.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

and i tried to change the siteindex directory permission to 777 also but no use. please help me to install the script.

thank you,

jagadish.p

So your path is /home/username/public_html ?  not /home/username/public_html/elgg   or something to that effect?  chmod 755 should work.

Sweeeeet! Works like a charm.

My .htaccess file doesn't like the RewriteRule. Returns a 500 internal server error. I'm with Fatcow. Any sugestions?

That doesn't sound right considering that Elgg requires rewrite rules to work.. if Elgg works, this should work.  something is up with your configuration.

I don't have a clue how to troubleshoot it. My elgg installation seems to work very reliably.

Well the fact that you are on Fatcow doesn't help me.  Knowing the path to where you have placed the SiteIndex directory, and seeing the tail part of your .htaccess file may help me.

Did you set the path appropriately per the instructions?

This is the path to my elgg install and Siteindex directory is:

$path = "/hermes/web05b/b683/moo.gasdoc/";

It is the same as appears in "Site Administration" section of elgg.

The bottom part of my .htaccess file is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on

# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
#RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^action\/([A-Za-z0-9\_\-\/]+)$ engine/handlers/action_handler.php?action=$1

RewriteRule ^export\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([0-9]+)$ services/export/handler.php?view=$1&guid=$2
RewriteRule ^export\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/$ services/export/handler.php?view=$1&guid=$2
RewriteRule ^export\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([A-Za-z0-9\_]+)\/$ services/export/handler.php?view=$1&guid=$2&type=$3&idname=$4

RewriteRule ^\_css\/css\.css$ _css/css.php

RewriteRule ^pg\/([A-Za-z0-9\_\-]+)\/(.*)$ engine/handlers/pagehandler.php?handler=$1&page=$2
RewriteRule ^pg\/([A-Za-z0-9\_\-]+)$ engine/handlers/pagehandler.php?handler=$1

RewriteRule xml-rpc.php engine/handlers/xml-rpc_handler.php
RewriteRule mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi engine/handlers/xml-rpc_handler.php

RewriteRule ^tag/(.+)/?$ engine/handlers/pagehandler.php?handler=search&page=$1
###########Rewrite Rules for Planphoria SiteIndex#######################
RewriteRule ^site([A-Za-z]+).xml(|.gz) siteIndex/siteindex.php?m=$1&g=$2
</IfModule>

Hi, I have finished the installation process, however I receive a blank screen when I go to http://path to host/siteblog.xml in Firefox.  I have verified that "Path" is correct (step 6) as it contains the folder: Engine.

I have tested the rewrite rule using  a simple test page e.g. siteblog.xml does forward to the test page.  However, when I configure htaccess to forward to siteindex_v1.0/siteindex.php, a blank page is displayed.

Please advise.  Thank you for your time.

I have resolved the problem described in my post above.

Phil, what is the exact path of where you have SiteIndex installed?

The document root of my site is:

/home/users/web/b683/moo.gasdoc/

The elgg install is in that directory.

The path to the SiteIndex directory is:

/home/users/web/b683/moo.gasdoc/siteindex/

I tried both root paths in siteindex.php and get the same error which appears to relate to the .htaccess edit. If undo the edit elgg works again.

The elgg installer for some reason discovered the document root as:

/hermes/web05b/b683/moo.gasdoc/

and it works using that setting in site administration.

The issue is a capital I in siteIndex in the rewrite rule.  Change the capital I to a lower case one and you should be in business.

Unfortunately, I'd already noticed that, and no change.

Ok.. unfortunately I am not seeing everything you are seeing (or are able to see), so lets talk about what the rewrite rule actually does and maybe that might help.

Basically, the objective of the rewrite rule is to convert a request from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc that comes to your server in the form of http://www.yourdomain.com/siteindex.xml&nbsp; or  http://www.yourdomain.com/siteindex.xml.gz and rewrite the request to go to the siteindex.php script.

If we look at the rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^site([A-Za-z]+).xml(|.gz) siteindex/siteindex.php?m=$1&g=$2

The first part of it:

^site([A-Za-z]+).xml(|.gz)

It basically says to rewrite any request that begins with "site", it captures the next string
of characters between "site" and .xml and assigns that to variable $1, and if the string ends
in .gz (and this is optional defined by the | character) it assigns that value to variable $2.

So based on the way that siteindex.php is written, this rewrite rule can accept any of the following (with or without the gz extension)
in addition to siteindex.xml:

    sitemain.xml.gz = Root URL, basic public areas and User Identified Loose Pages
    siteprofiles.xml.gz = Public facing User Profile elements and associated RSS
    sitepages.xml.gz = Public facing Elgg pages
    sitegroups.xml.gz = Public facing Elgg Groups
    siteblogs.xml.gz = Public facing Elgg Blogs
    siteevents.xml.gz = Public facing Elgg Events
    sitefiles.xml.gz = Public facing Elgg Files
    sitebookmarks.xml.gz = Public facing Elgg Bookmarks
    sitecategories.xml.gz = The list of possibly searchable Tags and Categories
    siteblogarchive.xml.gz = Public facing personal blogs, linked to by month
    sitegrblogarchive.xml.gz = Public facing group blogs, linked to by month

The second part:

siteindex/siteindex.php?m=$1&g=$2

This is the location of siteindex.php from the elgg base directory, which should be executable by the web server (chmod 755 if you are not sure).  The stuff after the question mark are parameters for the siteindex.php script that are pulled from the access request (variables $1 and $2 mentioned earlier).

If you are experiencing a 500 error, it may be because something is not set right so you can see the directory where siteindex.php resides.

You should be able to go to http://www.yourdomain.com/siteindex/siteindex.php and touch the script.  If this does not work, the rewrite isn't going to work either, and that is something that you need to figure out.