xmlsitemap in vbulletin 4.0.3 is not passing Google upload?

[tech0925]

Hello everyone,

I have searched high and low for the answer to this for over a month now. Everyone was friendly and helpful with my last question so I thought I would give this a go as well.

When I create a sitemap with vbulletin and notify Google by adding it to my webmaster account it gives me the yellow caution. I am pointing it to xmlsitemap.php. I have the actual files in sitemap_store/sitemaps are here. I read that the xmlsitemap.php is suppose to point google to this folder. It appears that part is working. However, for some stupid reason vbulletin builds some of the main forums (the ones that hold the other topic forums) with the date of 1969. This is causing an incorrect sitemap date in Google.

Does anyone anywhere know how to fix this problem? I even installed vbseo and it still kicks out the 1969 date on some of the forums. If you know how to fix this it would be awesome!

Thanks

[tech0925]

I finally found a quick fix for that issue. However, it still fails Google's validation b/c of the permanent 301 directs from one url to the rewritten vbseo url.

Basically the sitemap is still building the old urls instead of the new redirected urls. Anyone know how to fix that?

[phranque]

write a script to replace each 301-redirected url with the ultimate permanent replacement url.

[tech0925]

Thank you phranque. Any suggestions on how to do that? I am a newbie when it comes to writing scripts.