JeevesBond — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:49:07 +0000

Great! Glad to hear you found a solution! Thanks for coming back and sharing it too.

Just note in future when you need to use any free scripts that you're using the obscure and little-used Windows operating system* and the script probably wont work.

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* That's an opinion, and am talking about web hosting here, not home use

I Got It !!!!!!!!

snuffthroostr — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:09:08 +0000

Ok, my webhosting sucks, so I found another answer!

http://www.rss2html.com

All you have to do (for those of us with NO experience) is find an RSS/XML feed. Right click on the RSS button and save the feed location (which won't work with Internet Explorer). Go to http://www.rss2html.com
Click on Option 1.
Follow a few quick steps.
It makes a link for you.

In your web editor make the following:

Paste the link given by rss2html in src=" PASTE LINK HERE" put in a height and width if you don't want scroll bars scrolling="no" otherwise, obviously yes

I know search engines don't really like iframes, BUT IT WORKS!!!!! YAY!!!!

Thanks to everyone!
Snuffthroostr

JeevesBond — Sun, 21 May 2006 10:24:24 +0000

Aha! That's why!

No-one in their right mind goes for Windows hosting (well that's my opinion anyway), that hosting package is not able to provide you with what you need. You can do ASP and such with that host, but not PHP which is what you're trying to use here.

Change hosting package to Linux (which is what 70% - ish of all people use) and it'll work. Ideally you should have consulted someone before purchasing hosting too.

snuffthroostr — Sat, 20 May 2006 21:05:58 +0000

I did what you said, but I still see code. I even downloaded Firefox, so I could try to see it. I think I might just give up. Thanks for trying though.

Snuffthroostr

snuffthroostr — Sat, 20 May 2006 20:28:34 +0000

My host is GISOL.com
I got their "start up nt" package. (the one under windows, in the middle)

It supposedly has most anything I would need, with VERY little help on how to use any of it.

I am going to try the other thing, I'll get back to you.

Thanks
snuffthroostr

JeevesBond — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:14:06 +0000

Nearly forgot the problems with permissions.

Are your hosts able to fix those permissions? Have you changed anything with CHMOD? Perhaps using an FTP program?

It would also be a good idea to check whether your hosts support everything you need them to (like SSI etc.). If you tell us the host and package you have we can check for you.

JeevesBond — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:05:31 +0000

Well here's an overview of what I believe you need to do:
Note: Don't include the quotation marks in your file names

On your server:

Change the name of "neoweb.shtml" to "neoweb.php"
On your local PC:
Create a new file named: "feeds.shtml"
Open your "feeds.shtml" in your favourite editor (Dreamweaver, Notepad etc.) and enter the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>RSS Feeds Test</title> </head> <body>  </body> </html>

And then ...
Upload "feeds.shtml" to your server from your local PC (to the same directory as index.html etc.)
Open http://www.chickenflicken.com/neoweb.shtml in Opera/Firefox.

That should then show the latest feeds from Mr NeO's blog. If it doesn't, come back and we'll see how far you've got and what needs to be done next. If it does work we can look at how to get feeds from other sites for you.

Good luck, and have fun.

Thanks everyone

snuffthroostr — Sat, 20 May 2006 04:06:03 +0000

Ok, what I am trying to do is put RSS feeds from other sources (such as USA Today, Rolling Stone, Anywhere)on my site.

I picked up a reader and instructions from http://www.n7v.net/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/?p=7

There is an instructional video that is quite good. I did everything it said. Now, the problem is: How do I get his "test feed" to show? Or if I substitute a feed in the proper place (which his video explains) how do I get it to show on my page? If I open a browser and type in the directory (http://www.chickenflicken.com/neoweb.shtml) I see code.

My website URL is http://www.chickenflicken.com

I am still working on it, so some pages are hidden unless you go to the site map.

Also, I learn'ed today from my webhost technical support (whis is in itself an oxymoron when applied to them) that certain "file permissions" such as my CGI-bin are not working properly and I have to them to fix it/turn it on.

Anyway, any comments on the site itself are appreciated.

Thanks for everything. Oh, and Hello.

Snuffthroostr

JeevesBond — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:07:35 +0000

I might have been wrong in that previous post.
Firstly, could we get a link to your page? That always helps. What RSS reader are you using on your site? And what - just in plain English - is it you're trying to do?

Secondly, and this is meant more for fishtail, are you trying to add an RSS feed from your site? Usually you'll have a link in the code of your page that looks like:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Webmaster Forums RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS" />

The file that links to contains all the RSS feed data, it sounds like you've put RSS straight into your web page?

Thirdly, welcome to the forums you two! :wave:

JeevesBond — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:45:01 +0000

Hi there, sorry all this confusion has gone unnoticed.

The problem seems to be - as Maverick pointed out - because you're using Internet Explorer. If you use Opera, Firefox or one of the other plethora of web browsers out there you'll have no problem viewing the feed.