Topic on Extension talk:WikiArticleFeeds

Dear WikiArticleFeeds developers/users,

I followed your instructions and installed the WikiArticleFeeds extension. The RSS and Atom tags appear well in my Toolbox, and the Feed is displayed when I click on it. But, when I suscribe to my Feed with a RSS reader (say, Firefox), the loading of the RSS feed fails.

Could you please give me any clue to solve this ?

Kind Regards, E

Some questions:

• Is your feed generator on an intranet server, and do you try to read it on the internet, perhaps? This cannot work.
• can you send me the Url ? You can send the Feed url to me in a wiki-mail.

Yes, the feed generator is on an intranet server. Thus, it guess it's useless to provide you the url of my local Wiki since you would need to be in our local network to connect it. As you rightly commented, the consequence is that the Wiki RSS feed should not be accessible through the internet.

But since I can access the RSS feed page of my local Wiki through the internet while being inside our local network, I was wondering why I can't load its feed. I guess, the problem does not come from your extension but just on some local network restrictions I am facing.

Thanks for your answer and valuable time Wikinaut, Kind Regards, E

You wrote:

Yes, the feed generator is on an intranet server.

Most likely your server uses a proxy for accessing content from outside, i.e. internet.

Set the proxy settting of your Firefox or any other RSS feed reader to "Auto detect" proxy.

I set the proxy settting of my Firefox to "Auto detect", but still no feed loaded in my Firefox..

Try another browser or reader and answer these questions:

• Do you see the XML data ?
• What is the error message of the browsers or readers ?

If the feed is generated, then it's definitely a problem of your reader or browser, and I will close this issue as "WONTFIX INVALID".

Thanks for this valuable suggestion : I tried with Thunderbird, no XML data and the log is more explicit :

Server returned timed out [help]
Sorry, an error occurred while trying to validate this feed. Possible causes:
-The address may be incorrect. Make sure the address is spelled correctly. Try loading the feed directly 
in your browser to make sure a feed exists at that address. 
-The feed may be temporarily unavailable. The server may be down, or too slow. Try again later.
-The validator may be busted. If the feed exists, the server is fine, and the problem is reproducible, 
let us know on the feedvalidator-users mailing list.

The [help] says : Your feed couldn't be validated because there was a problem downloading it from the web server. You should try to diagnose this using a web browser, and make sure that the URL you supplied resolves to an accessible file. This usually means that the URL was wrong, or that permissions on the server don't allow us to fetch that file. The error shows the message that the server sent, which may help.

-> I guess there is some restriction either in my apache2.conf, or in my Mediawiki folder. I just need to know where.

Thanks, E

In your head posting, you wrote

The RSS and Atom tags appear well in my Toolbox, and the Feed is displayed when I click on it.

• What do you mean by that, and what is displayed, and where ? Please make a screenshot and send it to me, or upload to http://imgur.com and send me the link (be reminded that this imgur service is an open public system, and be awary to not submit data which is or may be confidential)

• What is the MediaWiki and extension version you are using ? Pls. supply this data from your Special:Version page. It is alwa<ys recommended to run the latest versions, if you can.

Here are the screenshots : http://www.flickr.com/photos/95305532@N07/

Mediawiki version : 1.20.3

WikiArticleFeeds (Version 0.71 20120319)