RSS Feeds from other sites Onto My Site, Each as a Separate Article?

[kh99]

I don't really know why it might have been working then stopped. You didn't make any changes? It was you who was thinking about creating more feeds by duplicating the rows in the database, wasn't it?

I suppose it could have something to do with the content of one of the feeds, but that's just a guess.

You can't make that change I mentioned via the admincp, so if you don't want to ftp anything I'm out of ideas. You could try truncating the rsslog table (since I can't think of anything else to tell you), or delete all your feeds and re-enter them, but if you do that you may end up posting duplicates of any items that are currently in the feeds (since it uses the rsslog table to keep track of what's been posted already).

To be honest you may need someone with access to your site who can go in and debug it and see what's wrong, but you'd probably have to pay someone to do that.

[Dave234]

I think it must be the content of one of my feeds.

I didn't change anything in the database.

I definitely don't want to mess with the ftp.

I will switch off all of the rss feeds when I get back home, and see what happens.

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In between entering the RSS feeds and there being this problem arising, I didn't do anything else to my website.... Does that mean anything? It isn't like once I reach a certain number of RSS feeds there would suddenly be a problem, right?

[kh99]

I don't know any reason why there would be a problem just because of the number of feeds, but if you have a large number or some are slow I guess something could be timing out at some point.

[Dave234]

That "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" -- that doesn't sound like an error that would occur for anything other than timing out, right? And timing out wouldn't be caused by anything other than just a faulty RSS feed, right?

[kh99]

I don't know. I think "cannot display the page" could be other things, and a timeout could happen in different situations (I think there's a php setting that sets the maximum number of seconds a php script can be running before it times out).

If you run the rss poster task from the admincp, how long does it take before you get an error? Is it quick, or does it take maybe 30 seconds?

[Dave234]

It takes about 30 seconds, maybe more. Actually 30 seconds sounds about right.

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What does that mean?

[kh99]

Well, I was thinking that it may mean that the script is timing out, since there's a maximum time that a php script is allowed to run. But I just looked at the rssposter.php code and it already attempts to turn off the time limit. But apparently this won't work if your php is set up in "safe mode", and in that case, according to the php docs, there's nothing you can do to increase it.

Try going to Maintenance > View PHP Info and look at the values for safe_mode and max_execution_time.

[Dave234]

I went into Maintenance > View PHP Info, and saw the following:

safe_mode: Local Value = Off Master Value = Off
safe_mode_exec_dir: Local Value = no value Master Value = no value
safe_mode_grid: Local Value = Off Master Value = Off
safe_mode_include_dir: Local Value = no value Master Value = no value

max_execution_time: Local Value = 30 Master Value = 30

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One of my feeds went through. It was one feed......it should have been much more. And it didn't go to the right subforum.....

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And actually I just timed how long it takes from me pressing "Run Scheduled Task Now" in the RSS Feed Manager and it going to the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". It is 8 seconds. Every time.

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Does any of that mean anything?

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It seems to be when I have a combination of RSS feeds checked off at the same time. It's weird because a lot of them work one at a time.

Do you know why this could be?

[Dave234]

Anybody?