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fauxtog
03-21-2005, 07:08 AM
Sorry about another RSS thread, but I've read through many of them and didn't see this specific thing.

I was noticing that I couldn't see my thumbnails in Bloglines so I looked at the Activity window in Safari and noticed that it was trying to fetch the images from this:
http://fauxtoblog.comthumbnails/thumb_blossoms.jpg

I noticed that there was a "/" missing so I edited this line in my index.php file so that it had a "/" before the thumbnails directory in this line:

$image = $cfgrow['siteurl']."/thumbnails/thumb_$image";

This worked for my Atom feed, but doing the same to the RSS 2.0 section didn't give me the same results.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? duh. :-)
fauxtog
03-21-2005, 07:18 AM
OK, I did find a reference to this and noticed that my site url didn't have the trailing / at the end, so I added it in the options panel and took the slashes off in the index.php file.

Well, the Atom feed shows my thumbnails and the RSS 2.0 feed still doesn't.

hmmmm.
Connie
03-21-2005, 08:11 AM
so you have the just the other variant than I had:

I got the thumbnails in RSS and not in ATOM in my Feedreader...

I went over the RSS-functionality for the next version this weekend and the result validated ok, error-less in feedvalidator.org, but still no thumbnails

well, I think this RSS Business is also a question of implementation in the feedreaders and the standards are problematic, seems to me similar to the browser capabilities, IE <=> "real Browsers :lol:
raminia
03-21-2005, 09:14 AM
no missing slash '/' at the site url?
Joe[y]
03-21-2005, 05:44 PM
personally, i don't use thumbnails - but i use the full size images and i have no problems.
Anonymous
03-21-2005, 09:42 PM
personally, i don't use thumbnails - but i use the full size images and i have no problems.

I had the same problem. The solution is to put the complete url under the admin options including a slash at the end.

http://sitename/
fauxtog
03-21-2005, 09:56 PM
Well, I downloaded a standalone reader and it works fine. It seems that Bloglines isn't refreshing and will only show the feeds that were there when I subscribed to them.

It must be a function of the way the feed is generated. I don't have problems with feeds that point to an actual file on the server (eg. fauxtoblog.com/atom.xml) instead of the (?x=rss) which I don't quite understand as it is.

Is there a way for pixelpost to generate a physical xml file that resides in the root directory?