(Sigh) Just posting this here to collect my thoughts... and perhaps some kind soul might just have the experience and the answers to the below conundrums.
Hi there...
A number of questions I have here. The first two are related to DS-syndicate as stated in the title, the other is a general Joomla/PHP/permissions question which some might have encountered before. So, hope you can help me out with your experience.
Firstly,
I see that this site ([b]www.goodwebpractices.com[/b]) has an excellent RSS feed page generated (displayed when you click that "RSS Subscribe" link on the upper right part of this page... with the same template and display style as the rest of this site.
Apart from that, the article order there follows exactly the article order of the articles on its main page.
I'm trying to use ds-syndicate on my site too, and the display is really nothing like the way that I would like it to be; that is, how it is for that site.
First of all I can't get the article order same as the article order on my main page (I'm using Blog-Content Section as my main page, I've moved my 'frontpage' to another menu item.)
Secondly, as I said, I'd like the feed to be rendered out using the same template as the rest of my site.. not as how it is now - that generic drab 'subscribe to feeds' page that Firefox shows.
Am I missing something? What are the things that I should do or look out for?
Next: is the URL that I keep on getting from ds-syndicate. Whenever I've done something wrong in creating the feed and I delete it from the administration interface to start over...
The URL I get is inexorably incremented by 1
http://virtualestate.org/ultrabeast/index2.php?option=ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=5
as in feed_id=1, then =2, ...
But in feedburner, the URL that I submit is =1 ... how do I force DS-syndicate to just create a certain URL with a certain ID? Even if I deleted all the feeds in the list to start over, I can never get a feed with id=1 .. [i]forever[/i].
On another note, I always seem to have a general problem with the folder permissions from time to time. It seems that whatever is created by Joomla, it's not necessarily that I am the owner - although I would think that I ought to be. Hence sometimes I get the error line like "fopen() failed in xxxx.php on line 74" when using some components that heretofore worked alright.
The implication of that -
On one instance the problem happened this way - rsgallery2 notified that some of its folders are 'unwritable' and I found that I could not even CHMOD those certain folders (rsgallery2 image folder) with joomlaXplorer, FTP or even with my [i]webhost administration cpanel[/i] :eek: !!!
After some headaches from this I realized that I had recently chosen to use PHP 5.2.5 in my cpanel administration, I switched back to "System Default" (PHP 4.4.8) and the problem of the "unwritable and permission unmodifiable rsgallery2 folders" went away... but problem is, then onwards from time to time I will get the error line as told in the paragraph above.
Is there a concept of a 'PHP user' or that kind of thing? I never even realized things would be so un-straightforward when I started out. I noted for those troubled rsgallery2 folders, the 'user/owner' was displayed by joomlaXplorer as [b]'nobody'[/b]. How could that happen?
It could be not so easy to gather what I mentioned here.. If anyone could please take a look at my site. I'm facing a lot of problems from time-to-time specifically with file and folder writable permissions.
http://virtualestate.org/ultrabeast
Any suggestions on other site-related things as well are welcome. I'm still a neophyte.
Thanks guys.
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