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12/5/2011 9:09:55 AM
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Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

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When changing the site's domain name / url do I need to manually update the RSSUrl and Url fields in mp_RSSFeeds - they seem to hold the FQDN. After moving the domain name we added some new items to the news blog module but could not get them to appear on the feed, so fiddled about with the settings a bit reduced the cache to 1 minute etc but after clearing the feed cache nothing at all shows. So I was looking in the RSSFeeds table and found the 2 FQDN urls still pointing to the dev site and data

I do not yet have a preferred domain set nor am I actually using the final domain name - just a temporary domain to make sure all is working on the production server.

2.3.7.1 MSSQL

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12/5/2011 9:27:37 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Clarification - bothe the feed consumed on the homepage and the feed from the RSS icon on the news blog still reference the development url - this is true even after changing the 2 hard coded urls in mp_rssfeeds. 

At a loss to think what to do next

J

12/5/2011 9:37:48 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Hi John,

Of course the feed urls for feed manager in the database are going to be exactly what you entered when you added the feed to feed manager.

If you want to use a different feed at a different url then you have to edit the feeds in Feed Manager. There is nothing that magically changes the feed url you configured just because you moved the site to a different url. It doesn't know the difference between an external feed or an internal one it just uses whatever you configure as the feed url.

You should not edit them directly in the table though, it is best to edit them from the UI so that the feed item cache is cleared automatically when you edit the feed location and it will reload the items from the new url.

The Blog also has a setting (Feedburner Feed Url) where you may be overriding the feed url it exposes.

Hope that helps,

Joe

12/5/2011 9:46:54 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Thanks - Joe - but I just cannot see where to change the feed URL in the UI? Maybe I'm being dumb but I just do not see it. As usual the day they want to go live and the client has suddenly found a load of tweaks to this and that - so my brain is overloading a bit.

Where in the ui do I set the feed? 

J

12/5/2011 9:51:35 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Click the Add/Edit Feeds icon or link next to the title on Feed Manager, it will either be a pencil or a text link. Then from there you can see how you can edit or delete or add new feeds.

Hope that helps,

Joe

12/5/2011 10:03:21 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Doh! - yes but those settings come up correct as I had already changed them in the database - but the rss icon on theblog still references the dev site and the home page feed is still blank. I guess I should delete and recreate the feed.

 

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12/5/2011 10:42:37 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Still no joy - I deleted the feed from the feedmanager on the homepage and recreated it and it still will not display. The RSS icon on the blog page works correctly with the same url which I edited manually because I have those RSS links at the bottom of the sidebar in the extra content bit so they appear after the Categories and Archive.

Totally at a loss as to what to do next.

J

12/5/2011 2:17:32 PM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Hi John,

Do you have a URL we can use to access the site?

The RSS icon on the Blog Page itself, it is the one generated by the Blog module or one you've created in the side-bar? If it is the one generated by the module, what URL does it have for the blog?

Thanks,
Joe

12/6/2011 12:28:43 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Thanks Joe and Joe I've fixed it now - it was all down to DNS visibility issues on our servers - I am running the feed on a .local internal domain now and all is sweet. Will be doing the final DNS switch over today and it will be visible then. 

Last headache is going to be the GA tracking ;(

Thanks again for all your help guys - MoJo is the best.

J

12/6/2011 1:13:16 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

Damn Now in DNS forest hell .. the internal addressing that allows the feed to work is of course not visible extranally so all the links in the feed are broken. Brain dead working at 5AM. I think all will pan out one the real DNS is propageted and I make the appropriate changes to the feed.

12/6/2011 1:46:06 AM
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Re: Site domain name and url changed - blog feed consumed on home page broke

OK got a workaround fixed for now - am pretty sure it will be fine once the real DNS is porpagated fully and I reset thhe feed accordingly. And so shower breakfast and off to work. 

Thanks - especially for your patience guys

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