Multiple, compressed xml sitemaps. What do I have to do?

[paul3]

My site is pretty huge, so I know that multiple map files will be produced, I also want them compressed, so I checked this option.

Now, do I only have to create the single sitemap.xml (or sitemap.xml.gz) file, and give them 666 permissions, or do I have to guess how many need to be created, and manually add that number of files?

Or, does the program create sitemap files automatically if more than one are needed?

Completely confused by this aspect!

Thanks in advance!

[admin]

Hello,

in case if Sitemap Generator has enough permissions to create files in target folder (which is not the case usually, but you can set 0766 permissions for this folder manually), it will create all sitemaps automatically. Otherwise, you should create all sitemap files (1,2,etc) and set permissions for them.

[paul3]

Thanks.

Can you tell me, are the sitemaps generated as it goes, or is the data stored up and sitemap(s) written when the crawl is finished?

[admin]

All sitemaps are generated after the process is completed (it is required to keep all crawled info until it is finished to avoid duplicates etc).

[paul3]

Thought so.  Thanks again.