RSS feed not working in categories

chabbs · May 25th, 2008, 06:47 PM

I turned on the spider friendly URLs and the RSS feed in the categories are not working. The RSS for the whole site is working and can be seen here Fresh Dames but for a category it doesn't form a proper xml file. You can see it here - Celebrity Pictures

I toggled back and forth with the SE friendly URLs and when the SE friendly URLs are turned on it doesn't work but when the SE friendly URLs are turned off it works. I think the issue is a malformed URL when it's in SE friendly URL mode.

Actually I just clicked on one of the URLs in the RSS feed that works and noticed that the URL is not the SE friendly version. So basically the RSS feed doesn't maintain the SE friendly URLs at all.

Michael P · May 25th, 2008, 09:41 PM

We made a slight change to the external.php script a short time ago; try grabbing the latest build and see if that update helps you.

chabbs · May 26th, 2008, 06:07 AM

I downloaded the latest build and uploaded the external.php file and it still doesn't work. Do I have to replace any other files?

Michael P · May 26th, 2008, 08:42 AM

The problem is a path issue with the vb header; try this:

in pp-inc.php at line 479:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Add the line in bold.

chabbs · May 26th, 2008, 12:13 PM

That's great, it worked!

In the RSS feed the URL is like this freshdames.com/photo-gallery/showphoto.php?photo=958 but within the gallery the same pictures shows up like this freshdames.com/photo-gallery/showphoto.php/photo/958, which is the SE friendly version. By having these two URLs it creates duplicate content. Is there a way to get the URLs in the feed to be the same as the SE friendly URL?

Thanks.

Michael P · May 26th, 2008, 12:46 PM

Sure. Line 74 in external.php would look like:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

chabbs · May 26th, 2008, 01:00 PM

That worked too. Thanks!

Will these modifications be added to the new build?