Forum OpenACS Q&A: lars-blogger: RSS feed broken

hi,

i'm running oacs 4.6.1 with postgresql 7.2.4 and installed lars-blogger [1] everything works fine, except for the rss-feeds. i have to instances of lars-blogger mounted, and neither provide a feed.

there is a www/rss/ directory in the package containing an index.vhu file with the following expression

ns_returnfile 200 text/xml [rss_gen_report_file -summary_context_id [ad_conn package_id] -impl_name pinds_blog_entries]

which seems rather sensible, but when i access [2] i get:

The requested URL was not found on this server.

i haven't found any rss-application in the oacs packages which i could mount explicitely but there is mention of rss-support when viewing the Package Manager page.

any ideas?

thanks.

tom

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[1] http://tomster.org/
[2] http://tomster.org/blog/rss/rss.xml

I haven't looked at this code in a while, but iirc you have to explicitly tell the rss-support package that you want it to generate xml for each applicable package context (package_id).  In theory, lars-blogger should do this behind the scenes when you create new blogs, but maybe it doesn't.

Try mounting the rss-support package and surfing to its main index page.  There you should be able to set up a subscription manually.  You may also find the rss-support documentation, in doc/index.html, helpful.

one thing i forgot to mention:

when surfing to the rss-support adminpage i only have the option to view my subscriptions (Report Generation Subscriptions) which shows none, but i can't find any place to actually *add* one.

so perhaps the ball is in your field, afterall, and not lars's?

Yeah, try the 4.6.2 version and use the "Setup an RSS feed" link.

First of all make a backup of both all your files and the db.

<blockquote> untar the 4.6.2 ball into and over the existing installation
replace the existing installation with a fresh untar and move
the modified .adp and .tcl files manually back
</blockquote>

If you have lots of modified files then you would propably like to look into using a local CVS repository approach, using 'vendor import' for importing OpenACS code into your project. See http://pinds.com/acs-tips/openacs-setup for a good description how to do that.

<blockquote> set up a new instance with a new database
</blockquote>

No. After upgrading the files to the new versions go to /acs-admin/apm/packages-install and select those packages that have an 'Upgrade' comment. The apm will then present you with a list of sql upgrade scripts that it is about to run. The upgrade scripts contain data model changes, e.g. 'alter table add ...' when a new column has been added to a table. Confirm and cross fingers.

Note that there is a serious effort to make the upgrade scripts work between _final_ releases, e.g. 4.6.1 and the not yet released 4.6.2, not between beta versions, although they most likely work. If not please file a bug report.