rss to block feeds not loading

Has anyone ever had a problem with the forum feeds loading into the page blocks.

This started happening a week or so ago..

There have been no changes to the site at the time it started happening to trigger it..

Things were very stable and working smoothly when it started happening..

Apparently it is not a server issue. So there has to be something on my end..

Any ideas?

Another problem thats fallen on deaf ears. I have the same problem. There's so many unanswered posts on BoonEx its criminal.

Bump.... All of a sudden having this issue with RSS and Forum Posts on Front (Home) Page sine upgrade to 6.1.6.

I am looking into this but would love to see a little more activity on this thread here. If you have ideas then post them please.

Its unlikely that its "fallen on deaf ears"

Most people only answer questions that they know the answer for. Which is how it should be. You really don't want a couple hundred "I don't know" responses do you?

I am sorry i do not have an answer.

But you could try asking your host if they have made any changes. Such as PHP upgrades or server wide php config changes or even any firewall changes. You could also check the server logs and see if any errors are occurring.

I have running more sites under 6.1.6 and no problems. So it could be a server (software) issue like Deano says.

Hello everyone.  I was having a similar issue to where my Shout Box and external RSS feeds just all of sudden stopped working.  I contacted my host provider and they were able to fix the issue by enabling the 'read_line' variable in the global php configuration file.  I hope this will help...

been trying to locate read_line variable on php.ini but couldn't find it... maybe you could post the changes?

I contacted my host provider and all they said was - "We had enabled the function in the server configuration file to fix the issue."

been trying to look on this issue still no luck maybe if you can specified what was that function so you can help us, I know i'm not the only member who has this issue...

It can be one of two things.

allow_url_fopen is not enabled on your server. This can be enabled via php.ini if your server allows php.ini at runtime. (php.ini within local directories)

or...

your host does not allow circular references - ie you cannot call your domain url from within your domain. My host is setup like this - they refuse to change it claiming security as a reason, I think it's bcasue they are missing the reference to my domain in thier hosts file and are too dumb to be able to fix it - but that's besides the poi

Try posting the RSS feed URL directly into your browser, if it works the problem is most likely because your host is preventing loopback URL's - ie won't allow local scripts to access the fully qualified name.

Eg the URL for your RSS feed will be something like http://yoursite.com/inc/classes/BxRSS.php?your-rss-info but your host will not allow you to call http://yoursite.com from within your server (if that makes sense).

The usual solution is to use relative paths instead ie ../../inc/classes/BxRSS.php?your-rss-info but the htaccess url rewrite mucks these up (or it needs an entry to handle local paths added).

I also have this problem and it's a tad annoying that they should process local feeds this way. But life sucks and I'm used to it.

There is however half a solution - this is to aggregate your feeds on another site by using a script and then call this script instead. I say half a solution as this does not account for user verification and so cannot access feeds for hidden groups etc.

There was a post over at Boonex that outlined one solution you could use, including a script.

Or you can use the following script that I wrote. Simply paste the following into a text file and name it feedbouncer.php then save it to a different server from your Dolphin site

<?php

echo (readfile($_GET['feed']));

?>

Then - making a note of the RSS feed's URL that you require in the admin panel of Dolphin, it will be something like -

http://yoursite.com/inc/classes/BxRSS.php?your-rss-info

Simply replace it with the following (replace the urls with those that you require)

http://your-different-site.com/path-to/feedbouncer.php?feed=http://yoursite.com/inc/classes/BxRSS.php?your-rss-info

In essence it just echo's back the url. (You can test it by typing the url directly into your browser)

Simple huh? :)

Be aware that this may / may not work depending on the settings of the second server

HTH.

DM

Nice solution DeeEmm. I'll need to try that out. Thanks!