Hi!
I appear to be having a somewhat similar problem to the earlier topic about RSS News Feeds Not Working. I have set up two of my own news feeds on my site and everything works great. However, when I try to set up a newsfeed from anywhere else like the BBC or CNN, it doesn't work on my webpage even though it does work in "preview". I think that I should mention here that I have only one newsfeed per page so I know that it's not a naming problem. If I try & load the page http://www.clan-macpherson.org/bbcnews.html, the page comes up, everything appears to start up but nothing shows up. I see a message on the status line of my browser that says "Transferring data from www.clan-macpherson.org . . " but nothing ever seems to transfer & it eventually times out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Howard Parsons
Howard Parsons
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There are two PHP functions which will need to be turned on by your host in your PHP setting. These are, allow_url_fopen and magic_quotes_gpc. Both are usually turned on by default but some hosts turn them off.
Howard Parsons
Registered User
28 posts
My site is hosted by GoDaddy.com. According to the cgi settings for my site, both allow_url_fopen and magic_quotes_gpc are enabled. So what now?
Michael Bresnahan
Registered User
2 posts
I'm having the same problem with my site and I did everything that you did. It would be nice to get this working.
Howard Parsons
Registered User
28 posts
I'm glad that I'm not the only one reporting this problem. I just wish someone from CC would say that they are looking into the problem.
Scott Swedorski
VP of Product Development
25,042 posts
Unfortunately there is not much we can do with that as the function we use in PHP is fully dependent on that setting. If you look at our script we create, there is only 3 lines of code. 9 times out of 10 people have said it was turned on but when we look it is always off. I am sure that may not always apply here but a suggestion to really make sure it is turned on.
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
Howard Parsons
Registered User
28 posts
Scott,
Actually, we're both right. The 2 PHP settings are indeed on the same page that lists what's on & off also mentions a PHP.ini file that may contain settings overriding those set as a default. After a quick rummage via FTP, I located php.ini - a file I'd never noticed before - and indeed,
allow_url_fopen was switched off. Having corrected that problem, the RSS news feeds now work.
Thanx for your help.
Howard Parsons
Actually, we're both right. The 2 PHP settings are indeed on the same page that lists what's on & off also mentions a PHP.ini file that may contain settings overriding those set as a default. After a quick rummage via FTP, I located php.ini - a file I'd never noticed before - and indeed,
allow_url_fopen was switched off. Having corrected that problem, the RSS news feeds now work.
Thanx for your help.
Howard Parsons
Scott Swedorski
VP of Product Development
25,042 posts
Great, glad you got it working!
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
Howard Parsons
Registered User
28 posts
7 months on, the Newsreader has stopped working and I am getting the "Oops" message - something that I did not get before. My PHP.INI settings are as follows:
register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = on
magic_quotes_gpc = on
include_path = ".:/ssi"
Any help/suggestions would be most appreciated.
Howard Parsons
register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = on
magic_quotes_gpc = on
include_path = ".:/ssi"
Any help/suggestions would be most appreciated.
Howard Parsons
BillR
Senior Advisor
3,144 posts
Howard,
I just loaded the RSS News Feed and tested it by clicking on several different sources in the list provided.
Have you tried creating a page with just a few sources selected from the list? Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
I just loaded the RSS News Feed and tested it by clicking on several different sources in the list provided.
Have you tried creating a page with just a few sources selected from the list? Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
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