photoblogs.org will not work with my new URL?? RSS FEED VAILDATES.

[sofarsogood]

I know this is not the "correct" place to post photoblogs.org questions, but I have really haven't had any luck anywhere else. And maybe I am just doing someting really stupid. :-?

I use Pixelpost for my photoblog and love it. When I first launched my site I had everything in one folder called “PIXELPOST” (index.php, add-ons, etc) This was all fine until I decided to change my URL so that it would be more personal and less generic. I am not a whiz with htpp. So I simply changed the name of the folder containing all of the pixelpost info from “PIXELPOST” to “sofarsogood” (the new name of my photoblog).

OLD-URL = http://woodencarproductions.com/PIXLEPOST/
NEW-URL= http://woodencarproductions.com/sofarsogood/

Problem is that when I go to photoblogs.org “Add/Update photoblog” section I always get the message:
A record exists in our database for the woodencarproductions.com domain.
Accessing the http://woodencarproductions.com/PIXLEPOST/ url...
Unable to find RSS/Atom feed.

I’ve gone to every post I can find on the subject (photoblogs.org does not find my site, rss problems, etc) and I have validated my site and had no problems come up with http://feedvalidator.org/

I was able to simply change my URL on other blog sites such as coolphotoblogs.com but not with photoblogs.org which really contains links and bookmarks to my site. Here is the link to my current RSS feed with the ending of my URL as /sofarsogood/
http://woodencarproductions.com/sofarsogood/index.php?x=rss

I even went to far as to change the name of the folder which contains all of my blog info back to PIXELPOST, thinking that I could just work backwards and that I’d just live with the generic name. But to no luck, then my page came up as a blank page.

I don’t know much about redirects, but I did try a few methods listed on other posts to no luck. If anyone has experienced a URL change and not been able to get photoblogs.org to recognize them, please can you help me out.

ROB-

[Dkozikowski]

I'd love to help you but I can't! What you need to do is email the admin of photoblogs.org

If I am reading this correctly, this is a problem with the photoblogs.org website and not pixelpost!

[sofarsogood]

Thanks - i've done that. Tried about a week ago and got no response yet. I just wanted to see if anyone else on this forum has experienced and fixed the problem?

[Connie]

we had this problem here
you could have searched for "photoblogs.org"

if photoblog.org is difficult, just don' use it
if they do not use correct syntax etc. it is their problem and we cannot help you

our feeds etc. validate and are correct

[austriaka]

This might not have to do anything with that, but at blimage.de they also have problems with my rss feed. It is validating ok, but it cannot be found automatically

KArin

[sofarsogood]

Thanks Connie - Of course I did a serach on photoblogs.org. I have been looking over all the posts for 2 weeks now. It's just very frustrating. I need to use photoblogs.org for what I am doing. I know it's not your problem, but that's what forums are for. I am glad that my feeds validate. Thanks again.

we had this problem here
you could have searched for "photoblogs.org"
if photoblog.org is difficult, just don' use it
if they do not use correct syntax etc. it is their problem and we cannot help you. our feeds etc. validate and are correct.

[janickg]

I think it might be your template code, or the way you've coded up your header. You have line breaks where you should not.


<link rel="service.feed" type="application/x.atom+xml"
title="So Far So Good A Photoblog"
href="http://woodencarproductions.com/sofarsogood/index.php?x=rss" />


<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="RSS Feed" href="http://woodencarproductions.com/sofarsogood/index.php?x=rss" />


Should not have line breaks! Try correcting that and see what happens

[blinking8s]

connie, this issue does not lie directly with photoblogs.org, brandon worked very hard to put his application together to use all photoblogs, if a specific feed has an issue, its a problem with that particular photoblog or very possibly the application may contain an issue we do not know of. More than likely its user error or within the template itself.

Our feed works as it should, but its not perfect.

I'll look into this tonight though

[sofarsogood]

Thanks a lot guys: I am going start a fresh template, maybe even try a different one (even though this one "simple-visions-mellencamp" did work and connect to photoblogs.org at one time).

...and thanks janickg and blinking8s for checking it out.

[sofarsogood]

I replaced the template with a fresh one. It still did not allow photoblogs.org to (re)pick up my site? I feel that the main problem exists in the return message I get when I am trying to Add/Update my photoblog. See how it says "accessing the http... and at the end it still says /PIXELPOST/ (i put it in bold just for this post). Well it's as if photoblogs is trying to access a folder that does not exist. Because I changed the name of the folder containing all of my photoblog files/folders to the name /sofarsogood/?
??:confused:

A record exists in our database for the woodencarproductions.com domain.

Accessing the http://woodencarproductions.com/PIXLEPOST/ url...

Unable to find RSS/Atom feed.

]

[blinking8s]

that's weird...i sent a message to brandon who runs photoblogs.org and ill look into it further when i get back from class

[sofarsogood]

Thanks a lot blinking8s - let me know if you hear anything from him. I've emailed him on the subject as well...

Still trying a few other things. I'm up on a few other photoblog sites, but I really depend on photoblogs.org as a community, and getting comments- which we all love to earn .:)

[janickg]

If you insert this into your head portion of the html without line breaks
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="So Far So Good - RSS Feed" href="http://woodencarproductions.com/sofarsogood/index.php?x=rss" />

Your feeds can be auto-discovered by browsers and aggregators like photoblogs alike

[sofarsogood]

I now have this code (listed above) written on my image_template.html? Is this the correct place to put it? If I try to place anything in the file called index.php, or make any changes to that page I always get a blank page after publishing.
I've also made sure not to have any line breaks.

I still can not reconnect with photoblogs.org.

I guess I'll just have to wait until Brandon Stone emails me, or my photoblog somehow expires (since you can not remove it yourself)- then re-add it.

...but any other ideas welcome.

??

[Dennis]

I now have this code (listed above) written on my image_template.html? Is this the correct place to put it?
Yeah, you shouldn't mess with the index.php since that is all code (mostly).