RSS Feeds

[Mike]

Hi,
I understand that our blog page should automatically be generating a
RSS feed but I can not find out how a user is meant to subscribe to
it. If you click on the 'subscribe' button one is presented only with
the feed I hard wired into the RSS block.

Had a look around but can not find any documentation on RSS - If I
have missed something please feel free to call me a ****

Regards
Mike

[mike waterworth]

If you have mod_rewrite enabled on the site go to your dynamic page and then /rss

That should get you the RSS for the page.

Then add that address into the lovely RSS module as a link and you're done.

M

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[Mike]

Hi Mike,
Sorry I do not understnad your comment 'If you have mod_rewrite

enabled on the site go to your dynamic page and then

/rssThat should get you the RSS for the page' :-(

My problem is that I have now seen that I need to specify the RSS feed
address as http://www.lawsocietychess.org.uk/eventblog/blog/rss/
(Scott says this in another similar topic) but as this generates an
error (page not found) I am scratching my head. As my other links
appear as '?s=...' I guess my address should really be
http://www.lawsocietychess.org.uk/?s=eventblog/blog/rss/ ??

regards
Mike

On Feb 11, 1:15 pm, mike waterworth <glastoha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have mod_rewrite enabled on the site go to your dynamic page and then

> /rssThat should get you the RSS for the page.

> Then add that address into the lovely RSS module as a link and you're done.
> M
>

[mike waterworth]

Mod_rewrite is the clean URLs.

Enable clean URLs and modify your .htaccess file, there is information on this in this group.

It only works if you are running on a linux host.

MikeW

[Kreezii]

If your host doesn't support clean URLs for your case in particular
it's:

http://www.lawsocietychess.org.uk/eventblog/?s=blog&m=rss

I've seen you've changed it to clean URL's but i post it for other
people, for example my host doesn't support clean URL's.

Kreezii.

On Feb 11, 3:02 pm, mike waterworth <glastoha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mod_rewrite is the clean URLs.Enable clean URLs and modify your .htaccess

> file, there is information on this in this group.
> It only works if you are running on a linux host.
> MikeW
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Mike <neuros...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> > Sorry I do not understnad your comment 'If you have mod_rewrite
> > enabled on the site go to your dynamic page and then
> > /rssThat should get you the RSS for the page' :-(
>
> > My problem is that I have now seen that I need to specify the RSS feed

> > address ashttp://www.lawsocietychess.org.uk/eventblog/blog/rss/

[Kreezii]

By the way i've noticed that Pixie doesn't let me save the changes
when i try to put the URL in the publish section of RSS Plugin, it
says "Please make sure you have entered a valid URL. (go back »)".
I've changed the value from the database directly, but it should be
possible to do from the Pixie Admin page.

[Scott]

Hi
This is caused by a crappy validation function, if you open up admin/
lib/lib_validate.php and replace:

function validateURL($url, $description = '') {
$result = preg_match ("/^[a-zA-Z]+[:\/\/]+[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+\\.+[A-
Za-z0-9\.\/%&=\?\-_]+$/i", $url);
if ($result) {
return true;
} else {
$this->errors[] = $description;
return false;
}
}

with

function validateURL($url, $description = '') {
return true;
}


that should fix it for now.

Scott