!!blue Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 I'm always getting excited when I hear about something new (tho RSS is prolly not that new, it's *new* to me). Anyhow, there's so much information online about this that's it's overkill. Can someone tell me how I can create a page on my blog that will have RSS headlines from various sites? I know that you can click on the XML button on a certain site if they offer RSS feeds, but.. well, do I just copy & paste that code into a new page? What would that page be saved as? How would it be automatically updated if I copied & pasted? it's prolly easier than I think it it, there more info online on how to create your own RSS feed then how to include one or more into a page. thanks a mil, !!blue Quote
brian Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 Actually it's not easier than you think, that is a bit more difficult. However, there is a plugin that will do it. It's called MT-RSSFeed, and you can get it from here. Of course, you have to add the tags into your MT page, and whatnot. If you have any trouble, let me know via PM, I can walk you through it, since I have been using MT forever now. Quote
!!blue Posted January 12, 2004 Author Posted January 12, 2004 Brian, Well, I tried taking on the task on my own cuz at work I get interrupted... a lot. Anyways, I tried following a tutorial from How to Feed and I get one error that is not in the instructions: >MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x8357d94) mt-rssfeed: http://www.movabletype.org/index.xml could not be cached as /home/server/public_html/movabletype/db/rss.httpwwwmovabletypeorgindexxml. at plugins/mt-rssfeed.pl line 394. MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x8357d94) mt-rssfeed: http://www.alistapart.com/rss.xml could not be cached as /home/server/public_html/movabletype/db/rss.httpwwwalistapartcomrssxml. at plugins/mt-rssfeed.pl line 394. it looks like it can't grab the xml code to save it in another file to show it in the html... or something.... absolut greek to me ... any ideas? anyone? thanks, !!blue Quote
DarqFlare Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 Hmm. Looks interesting... I'll take a peeky at it a bit later if it hasn't been solved yet. I would like to know that as well... (I noticed RSS feed here and thought maybe there might have been useful information for me... I just revamped my website's RSS feed to function like the MT Blog index.rdf file). Quote
DarqFlare Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 It looks like it's trying to cache the incoming file before building it into another file... And the cache isn't working. It could possibly be trying to save it as a filename that it can't save it as. Quote
!!blue Posted January 12, 2004 Author Posted January 12, 2004 Yeah, the instructions said to create a folder (db) under my mt folder and the folder is what is giving me that error ... I think... do you think I have to change the permissions on the folder? I don't know. Right now it's 550 (read/execute for User & Group only). thanks, !!blue Quote
!!blue Posted January 12, 2004 Author Posted January 12, 2004 I feel like such an idiot, but u live & u learn right? I had to change a line in the mt-rssfeed.pl file and I didn't change one thing. Originally I had: my $RSSFEED_DATA_DIR = "/home/server/public_html/mt/db/."; Well, server had to be my website name. D'oh!!! And I did change the permissions on the DB folder after all too. Man, I tried everything; but of course the last thing u try is the last thing that works right before hope jumps out the window thanks everyone, !!blue Quote
DarqFlare Posted January 12, 2004 Posted January 12, 2004 lol, I had come back here to suggest the CHMOD, lol... Quote
!!blue Posted January 13, 2004 Author Posted January 13, 2004 charle97, DargFlare great minds think alike now I'm off to gather more RSS feed links... Quote
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