RSS trouble

I have been able to put RSS feeds onto my site by using other sites news feeds, but when i try to make my own they never load. It just hangs there, i tried to make .htm, .xml, and .rss files but non works. I even tried using another sites code that i know works because i used the feed from their location and copied and pasted it into a file in on my server and it still won't work. I validated the file in a rss validater  thing and it said everything was ok and it still won't work. I am bamboozled. Any ideas why feeds hosted on my site won't work but the same one hosted on someone elses site works. I even make a simple one using this http://www.w3schools.com/rss/ and it just hangs there :(  at this rate i'll only ever be able to use other peoples content and not my own

Hi Voni,

Recently I came across the same problem and the problem is you haven't generated the RSS Feed for your site. You can generates it manually or online (http://www.sitemapdoc.com/), then place that URL is the Admin section

Admin -> Builders -> Page Builder -> Select the Page where you want to Place Feed on the site -> click on RSS Feed (Active Block), place the URL there and its done...

This is what I did, you can try the same, I am sure it will work...!!!

Note: Make sure file name should be "rss.xml"

its still not working its still hanging there, yet other peoples RSS works. can it be something to do with my hosting companies settings or permissions or something?

you can check with them as well...!!!

I contacted my host and this is what they said, could any of these affect my RSS feed ability? 

Hello Voni.

Thank you for your email.

We disable the following commands in PHP by default:

apache_child_terminate, apache_get_modules, apache_get_version, apache_getenv, apache_note, apache_setenv, dl, exec, highlight_file, ini_alter, leak, openlog, passthru, proc_close, proc_get_status, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, shell_exec, show_source, symlink, system

We don't directly disable fopen but it could need another one of these which we don't allow.

I don't understand much of this lol

Can you attach the screen shot of the URL which you are inputting in URL section of RSS Feed in Admin.

ummm what do you mean? 

http://shoomboom.com/try/rss/try.rss

http://shoomboom.com/try/rss/try.xml

these are what i tried putting in, simple and basic to see if i could get it to work, other peoples xml files work but mine don't. Maybe i am just getting it wrong lol

Did you put .xml file on server, on the same location which you are mentioning in your URL...!!!

i don't know what you mean

perhaps i am doing things wrong. I thought i needed to make an xml file, put in the code suff like this

I ment you generated the RSS file with .xml extenstion and did you transferred that file on server where your all the file are placed...

yes lol its on my server, thats the link for it, i don't use the rss file thing i just make that to see if it would work with rss extension. i used the xml, but nither work anyway

Below is the code which I uploaded for mysite. Try to put <?xml version="1.0" ?> as the first line in the file and save it as "rss.xml"

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title>World Best Forum and Blogging Site</title>
        <link>http://www.helpmyindia.com/</link>
        <description>Help My India is the vibrant Social Community site that includes Blogs, Articles and Forums on Technical, Legal, Social, Political, Real Estate, Healt</description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <generator>Sitemapdoc.com XML Sitemap Generator</generator>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[World Best Forum and Blogging Site]]></title>
            <link>http://www.helpmyindia.com/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Help My India is the vibrant Social Community site that includes Blogs, Articles and Forums on Technical, Legal, Social, Political, Real Estate, Healt]]></description>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

Else what all I can say is generate your "Rss" file again from "Sitemapdoc.com" and try again...!!!

when you say generate your rss file, am i supposed to make an .xml file or .rss file? and use that file as the rss url? i am getting this right arn't i?

nope not even your code worked, i am at a loss, seems i am stuck using other peoples content which kinda suks because why would i want other peoples stuff on my site?

but thank you for your efforts raman i suspect i need to enable something on my server but have no idea how or what to do :(

generate "rss.xml" file from the link which I pasted in my last post.

i did all its giving me is a code similar to the one i showed you before

Click anywhere below to highlight all 0 entries, then right click, choose copy. Paste into notepad. Then save as myRSSFeed.xml
http://www.shoomboom.com was redirected to http://shoomboom.com/ Requested URL replied = REDIRECTED

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<rss version="2.0">

<channel>

<title> test</title>

<link>http://www.shoomboom.com/</link>

<description>my test</description>

<copyright>Copyright &#xA9; shoomboom</copyright>

<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

<generator>Sitemapdoc.com XML Sitemap Generator</generator>

</channel>

</rss>

and telling me to save it as myRSSFeed.xml  which still doesn't work, it just hangs there :(

OK i tested my feed in the CUSTOM FEED bit in profile, and guess what? it worked......... yet...it does not work in the blocks rss feeds....who come this is. Now i know my feed / file works i can only figure there is a problem with my settings within DOLPHIN. any ideas?

Hi Voni,

What I understand with the problem which you are getting is URL redirection from "http://www.shoomboom.com/  to http://shoomboom.com/", if you'll place the URL "http://shoomboom.com/" for generating "rss.xml" it will work fine, or if you want to generate "rss.xml" for "http://www.shoomboom.com/" for your site, you first need to redirect the URL you can do it in the file  root directory/inc/header.inc  there is third line "$site['url'] = "http://shoomboom.com/";" place www. before shoomboom.com and upload this file to the server and test it live you should get "http://www.shoomboom.com/" in your URL bar and then generate "rss.xml" file for this.

Find the attached screen shot for "http://shoomboom.com/"

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Raman you are a genius! it worked at last! it was the lack of www, i'm so blonde i worked for hours trying to figure out the problem lol. Thankyou for helping me!

My Pleasure...!!!