I am having trouble making my RSS feed work on the home page.
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- Henrik Sundqvist
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Hey all. This is my first site. Wohooo!
I am trying to get a rss feed going from the bottom module in my extremities template.
www.artoutlet.org
In the RSS URL box, I entered:
www.artdc.org/forum/index.php?action=.xm...=56;limit=8;type=rss
But all I get is Cache Directory Unwriteable
??? I am sure there is something I missed out on…
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- Henrik Sundqvist
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Hmmm… - Artist, Designer & Printmaker
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- Matthew
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When you installed Joomla!, did you get a warning (red item) on the first page, that said that the cache file was not reachable?
If you go (in admin) to global configuration -> cache you will see the cache directory listed, and, if it is still unwritable, there will be a warning icon next to it instructing you to chmod the directory to 755 before turning on cache. Use your favorite FTP tool to do this, or try Joomlaexplorer, and see if that fixes your problem. - www.gofftech.com Web Design
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- Henrik Sundqvist
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Hey there.
Your are right, I have a warning sign in my global configuration.
There are two files. index.html and feed.xml
Hmmm, sorry for the dumb question. Where should I place or change what?
"chmod the directory to 755"
Not sure what to do with this?
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- Matthew
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Basically it refers to the file permissions of the folder itself, not any sort of configuration in a file.
You need to connect to your site with an FTP client, and navigate to the cache folder. Once you can see it, depending on what FTP program you use, you can choose to 'set file permissions' (this is probably a right click operation on most PC based programs).
However you get there, you will probably see a matrix of options that looks something like this:
Owner R:1 W:1 X:1
Group R:1 W:0 X:1
Public R:1 W:0 X:1
(where 1 = selected or checked, and 0=unselected or unchecked)
The configuration above corresponds to chmod 755 - if you get your permissions to look like that you should be good to go (or at least your cache warnings should go away).
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- Henrik Sundqvist
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So I selected the folder cahe and used "Get Info".
Under Ownership and Permissions I have Read and Write and I click on "details".
Under Owner (Henrik), I have R/W
Under Group (admin), I have Read only.
Under Others, I have Read only.
hmmm under group I have a whole selection of choices…
see PDF
Thanks for having so much patience. Henrik - Artist, Designer & Printmaker
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- Matthew
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I'm not much of a Mac person (I use them occasionally, but all of my development work is done on a Windows PC), so perhaps another member will be of more help.
In the meantime, I would try getting a (free) third party FTP application. Most OS have some sort of ftp built in, and it is often not that good, or does things in a slightly proprietary way.
The typical procedure for fixing this would look like this:
1. Fire up FTP program.
2. Log into server where your site is hosted (should look like this: ftp://ftp.yoursite.com/ ) using username and password associated with that account.
3. Navigate to the cache folder.
4. Set permissions.
If this isn't working, or isn't making sense, try this: extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...nk_id,102/Itemid,35/
It installs just like any component, and oftentimes you can fix the folder right from within your admin panel. - www.gofftech.com Web Design
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- Henrik Sundqvist
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- I was using Dreamweaver. Thanks for all your time. Henrik
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- Matthew
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Henrik Sundqvist wrote:
I was using Dreamweaver. Thanks for all your time. Henrik
I use Dreamweaver as well, FWIW, but for some things either an FTP client or JoomlaExplorer are required.
I'm glad to be of help, there is a bit of a learning curve for this stuff, but it really does get easier. - www.gofftech.com Web Design
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- Henrik Sundqvist
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Joomla is awesome, though. Just need to read more and get better at it.
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