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Another silly RSS question

david
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Posted 08/07/05 - 05:48 PM:	#1
I have rssfeed.php?type=links&number=50&field=rating&ascdesc=ascending&thecondition=catid !=8 AND catid !=9 in my HTML. But this isn't a valid xml/rss feed url. How can I make that something like mytoplist.xml ? Thanks David

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Posted 08/08/05 - 01:16 PM:	#2
In my experience any URL works for a feed. Nonetheless you can click 'static generation' in your admin panel or make an .htaccess line.
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Posted 08/08/05 - 01:27 PM:	#3
if using an .htaccess line, how would I format that? Alias /rssfeed.php?type=links&number=50&field=time&ascdesc=descending&thecondition=catid=8/ /toplist.xml OR Alias /rssfeed.php?type=links&number=50&field=time&ascdesc=descending&thecondition=catid=8 /toplist.xml ??? Thx David

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Posted 08/08/05 - 04:12 PM:	#4
Alias /rssfeed.php?type=links&number=50&field=time&ascdesc=descending&thecondition=catid=8 /a.xml That didn't work. Any thoughts? I know I am missing something very simple here, but since I don't know too much about Apache, can't figure it out. Thx David

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Posted 08/08/05 - 04:46 PM:	#5
tried a RewriteRule. didn't work either.

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Posted 08/08/05 - 04:54 PM:	#6
Try the following: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /wsnlinks RewriteRule ^toplist.xml$ rssfeed.php?type=links&number=50&field=time&ascdesc=descend ing&thecondition=catid=8 make sure RewriteBase is the path of your wsnlinks folder. Works for me.
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Posted 08/09/05 - 11:54 AM:	#7
Hmm... what am I missing here? Whenever I create an .htaccess file, I get an Internal Server Error on the site at all times. I don't really want to enable the Rewrite for the whole site (slow down), just these rss feeds to have a normal url. Isn't there a way to enable the rewrite only for these feeds but keep the site functioning the way it is supposed to normally through the index.php ? Thanks David

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Posted 08/09/05 - 02:35 PM:	#8
I'm not a ReWrite pro, but as far as I understand you're not rewriting the whole site - just try and see if it slows down anything. Don't turn mod_rewrite on in your directory setting.
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Posted 08/09/05 - 04:13 PM:	#9
I didn't. that's why it's weird. Oh well, I'll just get a sys admin to look at this. Thanks guys. David

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