How-to set up RSS feed

[dssart]

Is there a thread somewhere on how to setup an RSS feed? I did a search, came up with a lot of questions. I see the switches in my adminCP, but I'm not about to start flipping switches without a good guide.

[Steve Machol]

A feed for your vB forums or an incoming feed? Did you check the online manual?

[dssart]

Sorry, what I want to do is syndicate the content for select groups on my forum. So a person can import the feed from my forum into a RSS reader.

[Steve Machol]

Here's the online documentation:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/vboptions_group_external

All they have to do is use this URL:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/external.php?type-rss2

Of course you have to enable this here:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> External Data Provider

[dssart]

thanks!

[kildjean]

Hello!

I run a site called iGamix. In my site I have RSS configured and running as you can see here:

http://www.igamix.net/foros/external.php?type=rss

I have a friend who owns VBulletin like me, and has a weird issue with his RSS setting.

I know I have to enable the setting in "vBulletin options" ==> "external data provider".

But after I turn everything on and try the RSS I get an error saying "Safari can’t open the page “feed://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2” because it could not load any data from this location."

I also tried importing his feed from my main portal site, and I get a similar error. When I go into his feed, www.gen7.us/foros/external.php?type=rss i get a blank page.

I also try to load it into my other RSS reader and it doesnt accept the link because it cant read the data.

You can try it here on his site:

http://www.gen7.us/foros/external.php?type=rss

Also, I dont know if this might affect it but he is running vba CMPS...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. THanks.

Gilbert (Kildjean)

[Steve Machol]

The problem is that you don't allow guests to view your forum threads or you have no threads.

[kildjean]

Steve;

I verified that the site content and threads are visible from a Guest account. I know for a fact that the thread that we are trying to broadcast has content and data on it.

What else can be going wrong?

[Steve Machol]

And I have verified that all your forums are 'Private' and not viewable to guests. That is the problem.

http://www.gen7.us/foros/

[kildjean]

Yeah... I verified that and you were right... I changed the unregistered (or those who have not logged in) to be able to see the posts coming from the news feed... and now the rss is working well.

Now I wanted to ask one more thing...

Is there a place in vbulletin where I configure the length of the lines in the feed?

When I receive his feed in my site, it shows only 1 lines of news, where the original post has several lines. How do I do that?

[Steve Machol]

There is no option in vB to do that. I believe this is controlled by the feeedd itself.

[kildjean]

i understand, but i guess my question is, is there an option that controlls how much info the feed displays, this is from the site generating the feed.

[Steve Machol]

I don't know. Again this would be on the sending end, not the receiving end.

[kildjean]

I am asking about the sending part.

I think you are not understanding me...

ok let me rephrase.

gen7.us (the site publishing the rss) runs on vbulletin.

What I want to know is, if within vbulletin options, there is an option or a tool, to manage what type of information or how the thread is being publish in rss and I can control how many lines go out?

[Steve Machol]

No, there is no such option.