Posted on: 03/25/05 01:08pm
By: timf
I've been running Geeklog for about a year now - just recently tried adding rss feeds from other content providers - but I can't get external RSS feeds to work in my portal blocks.
works fine for one I created internally - i.e. - http://mysite.com/forum/forum.rdf works fine but for example:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss does not.
I've verified several feeds - they all come up in my browser - but always error out in portal block.
Log shows:
Geeklog can not reach the feed at http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss.
php.ini has fopen ON (verified by running phpinfo)
and just to be sure I added a .htaccess file containing
php_flag allow_url_fopen on in the oublic_html directory.
Also made sure Allowoveride is set to enable .htaccess in httpd.conf file.
I'm totally stumped!
wget http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss works fine - so my workaround is to do a cron job to dump it llocally then read the local file - but I'd really like it to work as designed!
Portal Block Issues
Posted on: 04/20/05 03:44pm
By: timf
bumpity bump
still having this issue - still not happy about the workaround
Portal Block Issues
Posted on: 04/20/05 05:31pm
By: rjrufo
Slashdot was having problems with their feed a while back. Maybe they're having problems again? Have you tried other feeds from other sites?
Portal Block Issues
Posted on: 04/20/05 05:46pm
By: timf
yep - have tried lots and lots and lots
(and slashdot DOES come up in a browser - and I can wget the feed and save it locally with a cron job or manually - just can't do it with geeklog)
Portal Block Issues
Posted on: 04/22/05 08:39pm
By: Anonymous (drali)
i had that problem on my site.
had to do with url grabs being prevented....ie, my server admins blocked em.
someone helped me with a weird workaround that copies the content to a tmeporary file...(therefore making it local)...and then displaying that.
http://humlink.mcmaster.ca