RSS Feed Posts not updating automatically

[nick-harper]

I know how to create a crontab job but this will obviously need a command.

Would this just be the rssposter.rss?

[renep]

You could wget /forum/cron.php. That's what the cronimage at the bottom of your page essentially does.

The cronimage code includes a random parameter, to prevent the request from being resolved by a cache (browser, proxy or reverse-proxy on the web server), I assume. I don't think you'd need that parameter in a wget on your server, unless you have Apache's proxy cache, Squid or something similar in front of vB.

[nick-harper]

I tried setting a cronjob but nothing....

If I update it by clicking "Run Job" it says it is done but doesnt add anything.

I have to reset the last checked time and then run the job before it finds anything!

[nick-harper]

Can anybody help?

This feature was one of the main reasons I use this software and it doesn't want to work.

[copiertalk]

Have you tried to just duplicate the scheduled task that is native to VB?

[David Grove]

Can you look in your scheduled tasks log to see if any of your tasks are running automatically?

[nick-harper]

Yes, my other tasks like sitemap etc are all running fine.

The issue is where I need to tick the reset last checked box before I can even do it manually.

[aciurczak]

I'm having a similar issue, but as traffic is going up on my forum, the problem is happening less and less. If you have enough traffic that the scheduled tasks are happening within a few minutes of when they are supposed to, this may be less of a problem. (look in admincp, scheduled tasks, and see when the next one is scheduled for. if it's in the future, you're fine. if it's a few days ago, you're not getting enough traffic for the scheduled tasks to be working properly).

What I also found is that if one of my RSS feeds is flaky; bad file or bad entry on the feed itself, that can hose the whole process and no feeds get updated. One thing that you may want to try is disable all feeds except 1, and make it the simplest feed (few articles, text only / no images, etc). See if it starts to run more reliably. Then as you get more confident that the configuration is correct, add more feeds 1 at a time, making sure that things are still working as you'd expect.

I think what was happening on my board is that the feeds were updating so infrequently because of low traffic, that when the job finally did run, there were so many feeds that it wanted to pull in that the mysql call timed out, and then nothing was added anyway.

[nick-harper]

How much traffic is actually needed though?

Does every site need to be massive before it will work?

I am getting around 100 unique hits a day.

[aciurczak]

I'd say 20 - 30 hits per hour. Any less than that and the scheduled tasks can't be relied upon to be running right when you'd expect them to. Go to your scheduled task section of the admincp and see for yourself if your tasks are backed up or are up to the current time.

[Rik Brown]

I'd say 20 - 30 hits per hour. Any less than that and the scheduled tasks can't be relied upon to be running right when you'd expect them to. Go to your scheduled task section of the admincp and see for yourself if your tasks are backed up or are up to the current time.

We're having the same problem here. We certainly have the traffic and we used rss in the past (dropped using it for about 1 year). All the other vb scheduled tasks work fine.

If I could simply run it by our server's cron I'd do it. -- Rik

[nick-harper]

This is not a Scheduled Task issue it is the actual RSS Feed issue

[mattyk72]

I'm having the same issue, it won't update on it's own I have to manually do it. Really frustrating that it's not working the way you think it should.

[afullcup]

We also have this issue and we certainly have enough traffic as a big board to not have that be the issue.

[Rik Brown]

Join the Crowd!

We also have this issue and we certainly have enough traffic as a big board to not have that be the issue.

Join the crowd! -- Rik