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ScubaSteve
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When I use contect syndication to create a RSS feed from my geeklog, I only have the option of doing it for "Events". What am I doing wrong? Should I not be able to select other sections i.e. Stories? 
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ScubaSteve
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I have set $_CONF['backend'] =1 ;
However, the geeklog.rss file is empty and I have the premissions set correctly. Using the content syndication menu in the admin section, I am able to create a feed for "events" only and that works correctly.
Why is the geeklog.rss file not being populated??
However, the geeklog.rss file is empty and I have the premissions set correctly. Using the content syndication menu in the admin section, I am able to create a feed for "events" only and that works correctly.
Why is the geeklog.rss file not being populated??
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ScubaSteve
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Anyone?
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THEMike
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You only get the options to create per-topic story feeds, or all topic story feeds when you have one or more topics that have anon read permissions.
I suspect that none of your topics grant read permissions to the anonymous user.
I suspect that none of your topics grant read permissions to the anonymous user.
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ScubaSteve
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Quote by 1000ideen: Are the permissions correct for the subdir /backend ? Try 777
They are set to 777.
You only get the options to create per-topic story feeds, or all topic story feeds when you have one or more topics that have anon read permissions.
That is probaby what is causing it.....never thought to check that.
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ScubaSteve
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Ok after looking around, while I have anonymous access turned off for everything at the site, most of my stories still have anonymous access checked.
Should this allow the story to be written to the rss feed but in order to follow the link and view the whole story, you would have to log in?
Is this not the way it should work?
Should this allow the story to be written to the rss feed but in order to follow the link and view the whole story, you would have to log in?
Is this not the way it should work?
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ScubaSteve
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I figured it out. I had anonymous access turned off at the topic level.
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ironmax
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Was checking the RSS feeds on my site to discover that my RSS Reader couldn't connect to the site. I was able to use the direct link thats in the reader on the browser and seen the content. What could be causing the reader to not connect and yet the browser can. I don't use proxies.
RSS feed http://www.spacequad.com/backend/spacequad.rss
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RSS feed http://www.spacequad.com/backend/spacequad.rss
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1000ideen
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Please try RSS validator http://rss.scripting.com/ there are errors in your characters.
I noticed that a podcatcher programme like "Juice" hangs up when a single character is not correct in a feed. E.g. the feed is declared as UTF-8 but there are non utf-8 signs in it.
The question is HOW did you do this?
I got a similar problem with my feed http://www.hallomarkus.de/backend/podcast-technik
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À
I noticed that a podcatcher programme like "Juice" hangs up when a single character is not correct in a feed. E.g. the feed is declared as UTF-8 but there are non utf-8 signs in it.
The question is HOW did you do this?
I got a similar problem with my feed http://www.hallomarkus.de/backend/podcast-technik
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À
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ironmax
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Quote by: 1000ideen
Please try RSS validator http://rss.scripting.com/ there are errors in your characters.
I noticed that a podcatcher programme like "Juice" hangs up when a single character is not correct in a feed. E.g. the feed is declared as UTF-8 but there are non utf-8 signs in it.
The question is HOW did you do this?
I got a similar problem with my feed http://www.hallomarkus.de/backend/podcast-technik
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À
Okay I managed to fix one of the items it was complaining about and that was the needed mime type in the web server. For the rest of them, they are listed below and can't figure out where they are being picked up from. I looked in the config.php file and made a small change for the %Z and changed it to EST, but that didn't help. It was still reporting the same error even after recreating the rss file. Your link to rss.scripting.com was broken or script timed out.
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This feed does not validate.
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Response includes bad HTTP header name: "this site created by" [help]
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line 12, column 56: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:37:20 Eastern Standard Time [help]
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:37:20 Eastern Standard Time</pubDate>
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line 18, column 56: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:25:00 Eastern Standard Time (10 occurrences) [help]
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:25:00 Eastern Standard Time</pubDate>
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Dirk
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Your site is sending this as an HTTP header:
I don't think spaces are allowed in the name of an HTTP header field and it should probably start with an X- anyway:
The other error seems to be fixed now? RFC822 doesn't allow for "Eastern Standard Time" as a timezone. It should be (and is now) "EST".
bye, Dirk
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This Site Created By: Spacequad AntiSpam ServicesI don't think spaces are allowed in the name of an HTTP header field and it should probably start with an X- anyway:
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X-This-Site-Created-By: Spacequad AntiSpam ServicesThe other error seems to be fixed now? RFC822 doesn't allow for "Eastern Standard Time" as a timezone. It should be (and is now) "EST".
bye, Dirk
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ironmax
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Quote by: Dirk
I don't think spaces are allowed in the name of an HTTP header field and it should probably start with an X- anyway:
The other error seems to be fixed now? RFC822 doesn't allow for "Eastern Standard Time" as a timezone. It should be (and is now) "EST".
bye, Dirk
Your site is sending this as an HTTP header:
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This Site Created By: Spacequad AntiSpam ServicesI don't think spaces are allowed in the name of an HTTP header field and it should probably start with an X- anyway:
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X-This-Site-Created-By: Spacequad AntiSpam ServicesThe other error seems to be fixed now? RFC822 doesn't allow for "Eastern Standard Time" as a timezone. It should be (and is now) "EST".
bye, Dirk
Finally, thanks Dirk for the insight. I had entered info into the custom HTTP headers on IIS and didn't realize this was causing problems for validation. I may have not entered the correct values, eitherway I just removed it and This Site Created By that the validator was complaining about, disappeared. As for the timezone issue, I had to go into the registry on the server to change the long array that says the full name of (location) Standard Time and (location) Daylight Savings Time on these two lines to a abbreviated 3 character set to allow the validator to pass the page. The following registry settings will allow for the change.
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This is the key that is modified on 2000 and XP for that matter.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones
Look for the time zone you want to change and then click on that key. Then open the Dlt and Std keys one at a time to change the value to a 3 letter set. Example: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Eastern Standard Time Value Data EST and EDT respectfully.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation appears to be the time zone setting that is currently in affect on the machine.
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1000ideen
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Quote by: 1000ideenI got a similar problem with my feed http://www.hallomarkus.de/backend/podcast-technik
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À[/p]
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À[/p]
I just wonder what`s wrong with my feed? Is this a bug?
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ironmax
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Quote by: 1000ideen
Quote by: 1000ideenI got a similar problem with my feed http://www.hallomarkus.de/backend/podcast-technik
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À
It is declared as utf-8 but contains wrong signs as it seems. I noticed it is those signs which I wrote in the FCKed. The editor turned ä into ä which basically correct but the feed reads À
I just wonder what`s wrong with my feed? Is this a bug?[/p][/QUOTE]
I don't know if this will help you, but look here and it'll give you more details. By the way, your feed does load up in RSSReader. So it works as far as I can tell.
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http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hallomarkus.de%2Fbackend%2Fpodcast-technik
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This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.
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Feeds should not be served with the "text/plain" media type [help]
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Your feed appears to be encoded as "iso-8859-15", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII" [help]
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line 35, column 0: Invalid HTML: EOF in middle of construct, at line 1, column 1 [help]
<description><img width="91" height="187" align=" ...
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line 65, column 10: title contains bad characters (2 occurrences) [help]
<title>GroÃ\x9fmembranmikrofon - Kleinmembranmikrofon</title>
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line 71, column 48: description contains bad characters (3 occurrences) [help]
<description>Also, immer wieder lese ich von GroÃ\x9fmembranmikrofonen. Das hö ...
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Source: http://www.hallomarkus.de/backend/podcast-technik
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1000ideen
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Right, I can also see it in Firefox2 but it has strange signs. Actually the site is utf-8 and also the feed ist utf-8 but just now I noticed that the source code of the feed reads:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-15"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
So there seems to be a bug with the content syndication and utf-8. Can somebody confirm that?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-15"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
So there seems to be a bug with the content syndication and utf-8. Can somebody confirm that?
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1000ideen
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Ah, I just replaced manually iso-8859-15 with utf-8 and it verifies 100% o.k.
Erm, I just reset all the settings of the feed, wrote utf-8 instead of UTF-8 and so on and now it works automatically.
That was a self repairing bug.
Erm, I just reset all the settings of the feed, wrote utf-8 instead of UTF-8 and so on and now it works automatically.
That was a self repairing bug.
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