This is already part of b2e. Check your sidebar and you should already see RSS and ATOM links which you can subscribe to.

It's already included and enabled by default. The only reason it wouldn't be available would be if you've modified your skin.

Thanks for the quick replies.

Graham: I am using Crystalglass and only made changes to the sidebar (repositionning sections of it)

When I click on the RSS or ATOM link in the footer it takes me to the Feed Validator which gives me this message:

Server returned (-2, 'Name or service not known') [help]

Sorry

An error occurred while trying to validate this feed.

Possible causes:

1. The address may be incorrect. Make sure the address is spelled correctly. Try loading the feed directly in your browser to make sure a feed exists at that address.
2. The feed may be temporarily unavailable. The server may be down, or too slow. Try again later.
3. The validator may be busted. If the feed exists, the server is fine, and the problem is reproducible, let us know on the feedvalidator-users mailing list.

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I tried loading the feed directly in my browser, it gives me a page with XML in it and also this message:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

I wonder where the problem lies, any pointers ? Any need for additionnal informations ?

catar4 wrote:

When I click on the RSS or ATOM link in the footer it takes me to the Feed Validator which gives me this message: ...

Those are links to validators - they are not your syndication feed.

catar4 wrote:

... I tried loading the feed directly in my browser, it gives me a page with XML in it and also this message: ...

Those are your feeds, but they are not intended to be read by a browser. All anyone has to do is subscribe to those feeds and they will get the aggregation thing happening. Firefox Live Bookmarks finds them. I use the Sage extension and it too will find the feeds.

I should take more time to look carefully into the matter before posting. I simply took the custom skin's code for the RSS links to articles and comments and put it into my crystalglass skin as replacement for the code that was there and now it works ...

Well the news aggregator (the one I installed) asks for a username and password but it doesnt take either my b2evolution or my NTLM's login informations as valid information, so it doesnt work perfectly yet.

But I'm gonna look into the matter more carefully first, before I start asking questions. Sorry 'bout asking dumb questions ;)

What aggregator are you using? Better still, give a link to your blog so we can subscribe and see if your feed links are working correctly. Could be the code, but it could also be something about your aggregator, and I guess it could be something about your server. Dunno, but a link will help a lot.

Thats what makes things more complicated for asking questions. I'd link my weblog everytime ... if it wasn't on our company's Intranet. None besides us here can access it.

The aggregator is called Feed Reader

Oh I remember that now. It might be a company firewall stopping aggregation from happening. Are you trying to aggregate from inside or outside? Either way that'd be where I'd be looking - at the company's setup. Maybe ask around your IT group?

I'll look into that.

For now I'm not too sure if we're trying to aggregate from inside or outside ... since I dont know how exactly the different aggregation tools work. I know the computers which run the aggregator are located on the Intranet too, so it must be done from inside.

I know the problem must not be with b2evolution ... normally even someone who's not registered on the b2evolution blog should be able to aggregate the RSS feeds on the site, so b2evolution probably never requires a username/password to allow aggregation. Am I correct on that ?

If I'm right in assuming that then the problem lies within our intranet/firewall. Whats weird is that when we submit out Intranet login infos, the aggregator doesn't accept it ...

About RSS feeds and authentication: let's say I use FeedReader which asks me to authenticate myself. When I give him my NTLM login infos (my intranet username and password) it doesnt take it, thats not the one it wants. Then I try giving him my blog's login informations (my b2evolution username and password).

What other login informations could it be asking for ? I dont have any other username/password that the NTLM and b2evolution ones...

I don't use feadreader, but feaddeamon.
I suppose that is more or less the same.
I never had to autenticate myself.
That's why we (I suppose) are that confused
Why would the feedreader want an authentication ?

I also am very confused. I tried SharpReader, News Crawler and Headline viewer ... those 3 worked perfectly and didnt require any authentication.

FeedReader, RSSReader and another one I dont remember asked for authentication and wouldn't read the feeds. Why would they want an authentication ? I'm really not sure but I guess it has something to do with our external Firewall.

But, by far, the weirdest behavior is that whatever login informations we give those softwares, they wont accept it. We are giving them all possible valid login informations, we dont have any other username/passwords to supply them.

Maybe it's a matter of password encryption/hashing or maybe it's about SSL ...

Thanks a lot for trying :)

catar4 wrote:

But, by far, the weirdest behavior is that whatever login informations we give those softwares, they wont accept it. We are giving them all possible valid login informations, we dont have any other username/passwords to supply them.

Perhaps they ask something you don't have..
since the other feedreaders didn't ask for something, it could be something completely different.
Perhaps the program wants the user id and password for the pentagon (how whould I know) and since you don't have that (I suppose ;)) you can't give it...

lol

No what Im thinking is that some feed readers work with SSL authentication, some with HTTP authentication (NTLM), some with both ... but we don't use SSL on our servers, we don't want to use it so those programs using only SSL never will recognise our login informations.

That's my guess ...

The crystalglass skin does not display RSS feeds by default. To enable them, look for the following code (excuse all the ^M's).

<?php /*
<div class="bSideItem">^M
        <h3><?php echo T_('Syndicate this blog') ?> <img src="../../img/xml.gif" alt="XML" width="36" height="14" class="mi
ddle" /></h3>^M
        <ul>^M
        <li>RSS 0.92: <a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'rss_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Posts') ?></a>, <a href="<?php $Blo
g->disp( 'comments_rss_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Comments') ?></a></li>^M
        <li>RSS 1.0: <a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'rdf_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Posts') ?></a>, <a href="<?php $Blog
->disp( 'comments_rdf_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Comments') ?></a></li>^M
        <li>RSS 2.0: <a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'rss2_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Posts') ?></a>, <a href="<?php $Blo
g->disp( 'comments_rss2_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Comments') ?></a></li>^M
        <li>Atom 0.3: <a href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'atom_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Posts') ?></a>, <a href="<?php $Bl
og->disp( 'comments_atom_url', 'raw' ) ?>"><?php echo T_('Comments') ?></a></li>^M
        </ul>^M
        <a href="http://fplanque.net/Blog/devblog/2004/01/10/p456" title="External - English">What is RSS?</a>^M
        </div>^M
</div>^M
/* ?>

Remove the first line

<?php /*

and the last:

/* ?>

.

and the RSS display will appear again.