Enabling feeds?

[Malvineous]

I'm just wondering whether it would be possible to get newsfeeds enabled on this board? Going to feed.php tells me they're disabled, and it would be great if I could add the feeds to my newsreader so I don't have to remember to keep checking back all the time.

Any possibility of getting them enabled?

[DOSGuy]

Good call.

[Malvineous]

Thanks for that! Unfortunately I can't subscribe via Google Reader, it keeps telling me the URL is not recognised. It seems the server is returning a HTTP 503 error when the user-agent is set to the one Google uses for retrieving feeds:

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$ wget 'https://www.classicdosgames.com/forum/feed.php' -U 'Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; feed-id=9698524345977023629)'
--2012-09-20 23:27:01--  https://www.classicdosgames.com/forum/feed.php
Resolving www.classicdosgames.com... 174.132.129.190
Connecting to www.classicdosgames.com|174.132.129.190|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable
2012-09-20 23:27:02 ERROR 503: Service Unavailable.

Is this something you have disabled on purpose? Any chance of getting the restriction lifted for feed.php so outside news readers can access the feed?

[DOSGuy]

I knew nothing about this until your original post. Apparently the latest version of phpBB enables newsfeeds by default, whereas it was only an experimental option in the past. I was planning to upgrade the forum this weekend, so maybe that will fix your problem. Suffice it to say that I'm not blocking anything on purpose.

[Malvineous]

Thanks, hopefully the upgrade will fix the issue. I was wondering whether you had limited access from bots to prevent indexing of the forum or something, but it does look like it's related to the experimental nature of the feature - more investigation revealed the HTTP 503 is actually a database error:

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SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND t.template_id = s.template_id
    AND c.theme_id = s.theme_id
    AND i.imag' at line 4 [1064]

I'll try it again after the upgrade and hopefully it will work then!

[DOSGuy]

I upgraded yesterday before your last post.