Been looking in the knowledge base and forums, but I cannot find the answer. Sorry if it has been asked before.
Two questions: (as I have set up a few RSS feeds to acquire daily podcasts that expire):
1) I have set links to expire after so many days. Links I add expire properly. However, the links added by RSS feed don't expire. Is there a setting for this?
2) Feed Cache Timeout: set to 120. If remember correctly (as I could not find the post), if there are no visitors to your site the feed may not update every 120min. Will setting a Cpanel cron job once an hour to "ping" the index.php file work?
1) There's currently no setting to make all listings from a feed expire after a specified time. This should be on the feed submission page I suppose, an option "expire feed's listings after ___ days"? I could add that feature for $40.
2) A wget http://yoursite/index.php cron will do the job if the nolocalurls tweak is OFF so that the helper files are being fetched via fopen/curl and not via images. Whether once an hour is enough depends on how many feeds you have. I believe it will process one feed per page load, so your cron should probably be once a minute instead.
I'll make the changes to see if that solves my issue -> "... will process one feed per page load, so your cron should probably be once a minute instead".
May purchase that additional option if I start finding/adding more feeds where links are only valid for a few days.
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Posted Feb 03, 2012 - 3:30 PM:
Hi Paul,
Been looking in the knowledge base and forums, but I cannot find the answer. Sorry if it has been asked before.
Two questions: (as I have set up a few RSS feeds to acquire daily podcasts that expire):
1) I have set links to expire after so many days. Links I add expire properly. However, the links added by RSS feed don't expire. Is there a setting for this?
2) Feed Cache Timeout: set to 120. If remember correctly (as I could not find the post), if there are no visitors to your site the feed may not update every 120min. Will setting a Cpanel cron job once an hour to "ping" the index.php file work?
Thanks - Rich
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1) There's currently no setting to make all listings from a feed expire after a specified time. This should be on the feed submission page I suppose, an option "expire feed's listings after ___ days"? I could add that feature for $40.
2) A wget http://yoursite/index.php cron will do the job if the nolocalurls tweak is OFF so that the helper files are being fetched via fopen/curl and not via images. Whether once an hour is enough depends on how many feeds you have. I believe it will process one feed per page load, so your cron should probably be once a minute instead.
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Thanks Paul,
I'll make the changes to see if that solves my issue -> "... will process one feed per page load, so your cron should probably be once a minute instead".
May purchase that additional option if I start finding/adding more feeds where links are only valid for a few days.