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jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

This is driving me up the wall -- I can't seem to get my rss, rss2, or rdf files to work properly. It didn't work when I installed b2 a couple of months ago, and then today I decided to sit down and try to fix it.

I went through all my code, went to the CVS and made sure all the related files were the most recent, and then all of the sudden, after tinkering with it for over an hour, it worked!

I should probably have left things well enough alone, but then I went into b2config and changed the following section to 0 instead of 50, just to see what it would do:

mikelittle · Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 376 Location: UK

Hi Jadeddaisy
The problem is the & (ampersand) in the URLs. It should be converted to an entity like &

Check the RSS validator http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jadeddaisy.net%2Fblog%2Fb2rss.php

Maybe you need to set $rss_encoded_html to 1 in b2config.php?

Hope this heps,

Mike
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jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

Just tried that, nothing's changed...same exact entry, and the validator link you posted gived looks the same, as far as I can tell...
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Mister44 · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:17 am Post subject:

what is $blogfilename in b2config.php set to?

jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

I originally had it as 'index.php' but a few weeks ago I changed it to be blank; $blogfilename = '';
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Mister44 · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject:

change it back to index.php

Cyberian75 · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 1019 Location: Oregon

jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

I did try changing it back to index.php, and it doesn't work, even in combination with the other suggestion posted earlier.

I left it blank, because I use blogrolling and set b2 to ping weblogs.com. I want it to ping with 'http://jadeddaisy.net/blog' since that's the URL people generally use to link to me. If I set it up with index.php then b2 pings with 'http://www.jadeddaisy.net/blog/index.php' and I don't show up on people's recently updated lists.
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Cyberian75 · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 1019 Location: Oregon

I don't recommend leaving it empty even if your blog works that way. It's because lots of b2 functions use that variable, and if it's empty, it will cause problems somewhere.

Regarding blogrolling, I believe you can define your URL in Preferences, and the URL you set in there will show up in others' blogroll.
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jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

No, the URL you set in preferences is used by blogrolling internally only. People choose which URL to link to a site with on their own, and if they choose one that's different from what blogrolling has, they won't be able to display the proper updates from the site. I could change my URL in their preferences, but then I would have to email about a million people to change their links, and that doesn't sound like my idea of a good time.

That being, said, I believe that blogrolling also pulls updates from blo.gs, so I'm setting b2 to also ping that site. Since I can define what URL I want to ping with in b2config, hopefully blogrolling will still get the proper updates from my site even if I change the other option back to index.php.

Back to the main issue; I've changed everything everyone's asked me to change, and the rss pages still aren't working. Sad

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Cyberian75 · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 1019 Location: Oregon

Don't you use "Blogroll Me" functionality?
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jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

Yes, but I've had my blog up on that URL since December '01 (was using GM for the first 8 months or so) and have only been using blogrolling for a month.
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Mister44 · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject:

ok the problem is that the proper characters are not being escaped by the call to convert_chars() in get_content_rss().

Why I don't know without looking in your code.

Has it ever worked?

jadeddaisy · Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 116

In my first post on this topic I explained that.. Smile

It had never worked until yesterday when I was tinkering with it, then I changed that one option and it was broken all over again, even if I change that option back.

If there's any pieces of my code you want me to post, I can do that...
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Mister44 · Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:14 am Post subject:

If you diff against the cvs code, do you have changes in any of the rss functions or convert_* functions?