Need heklp with RSS issues

[JourneyDeep]

Hello all,

Been a while since I last posted on here, but thought i would give it a shot. I am still running an older version of vbulletin and recently upgraded as far as I could, to 3.6.7 PL1. I don't know if this is an issue with the upgrade, but I have noticed that some RSS links are broken. The main feed works, but feeds for any new sub forum I create fail.

Here are the feeds that work:

http://www.wyoming-rc.com/forums/external.php

http://www.wyoming-rc.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=10

Here are the broken feeds:

http://www.wyoming-rc.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=9

http://www.wyoming-rc.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=23

As you can see, the forum is located at www.wyoming-rc.com/forums



Any ideas on this? ANY help woul be appreciated! :D

[kh99]

Check the "Thread Cutoff" value under External Data Provider in the settings. What I see is that all the links work, but the ones you say are broken contain no items, and when I go to your site and look at forums 9 and 23 I notice they don't have any recent posts.

[JourneyDeep]

It's set at the default, 30 days.

I tried changing it from 30 to 1 ( the lowest for busy forums) ... and all the way up to 180 with no change. I went up in small increments before reaching 180, did not know what the max could be set at.

Josh

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UPDATE: I create two test threads in forums 9 and 23 with no positive results.

[kh99]

The results are cached, so if you only change the cutoff day setting then access the same url, you won't see any change in the results. As a test, you can force it to make a new request by changing certain parameters on your request, for instance like this: http://www.wyoming-rc.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=9&nohtml=1 and you see the Rss Test thread you started. So I think your problem probably was the cutoff and after the cache expires it will start working.

[JourneyDeep]

Awesome. So my site doesn't get very much traffic in the small state of WY. What would be a recommended setting for us? For the thread cutoff and cache lifespan.

[kh99]

I don't really know, I don't have a lot of experience with feeds (but hopefully someone else will chime in). I don't think the cache time will matter too much - probably best to leave it something other than 0, but if you don't have too much traffic (and I assume not too many people requesting your feed) then it probably doesn't matter. As for cutoff, if you set that to something high someone who monitors your feed for the first time will get old threads, so I guess it's up to you whether or not you want that.

[JourneyDeep]

anyone have the answr?

[JourneyDeep]

bump for answers!

[kh99]

You might try asking at vbulletin.com as well, if you haven't already.