RSS feed is not displayed on page

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10/10/2013 11:27:31 AM
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RSS feed is not displayed on page

Trying to use the Feed Manager to display an RSS feed on a mojoportal page, but all it displays is a link to the feed and not the feed content itself.

10/10/2013 11:58:16 AM
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I want to set up a forum on one page, and display an RSS feed of all of the forum content on another page.

10/10/2013 12:30:33 PM
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Re: RSS feed is not displayed on page

Troubleshoot as follows:

Verify that the feed itself is working and has data.

Check the mojoPortal log under Administration > System Log for any errors about loading the feed.

Review all the settings in Feed Manager especially the one about how many days old of feed items to show.

Hope that helps,

Joe

10/10/2013 1:35:05 PM
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I can access the feed from the forum just fine using external tools such as FeedBurner with javascript and incorporating that into an HTML content section.  When I try to use the built in feed manager, I get something like this in the log... "2013-10-10 12:08:03,294 ERROR 10.4.1.1 - en-US - /<PAGENAME> - mojoPortal.Web.FeedUI.FeedCache - There was a problem trying to read the feed for url http://www.<URL>/Forums/RSS.aspx?ItemID=2&mid=385&pageid=171.  Ignoring.
System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 70.168.137.234:80"

10/10/2013 1:38:11 PM
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Re: RSS feed is not displayed on page

and just left the default set to display posts within 90 days... just testing it out, so the posts are today's... anyway - thanks for your assistance and any other ideas you might have...  : )

10/10/2013 1:47:34 PM
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Re: RSS feed is not displayed on page

The Feed Manager is trying to make a web request from server side code to get the feed but it is failing. In this case the remote server is the web server but it needs to retrieve the feed over the internet even though it is the same machine.

"System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server"

This can happen in Medium Trust hosting, some medium trust environments allow server side web requests and some don't. I know that when testing medium trust on my local machine it works when medium trust is configured as follows:

<trust level="Medium" originUrl=".*" />

the bold part is what is needed to allow server side web requests to work in medium trust. However in a hosting environment only your host could change that if they are enforcing medium trust so you will have to get help from them to resolve it.

If you look under Administration > System Information and it says "Partial Trust" that means you are hosted in medium trust.

10/10/2013 1:50:49 PM
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Note also that if you are unable to get your host to resolve the feed manager problem, there is another way to show recent forum posts using the recent content feature which pulls data from the search index.

10/10/2013 2:05:53 PM
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ok - thanks Joe!  : )  I'll look into this and see if anything can be changed to get this working...

10/10/2013 2:20:31 PM
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looks like... "ASP.NET Info v4.0.30319 Running in Full Trust"

10/10/2013 2:57:31 PM
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ok, then either the feed url is bad or it is not accessible to the web server for some reason. could be a number of possible causes like  firewall restrictions or the dns is resolving to the wrong ip address or other network problems.

10/10/2013 3:02:40 PM
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ok - that was it... I used the IP address of the server that this instance of mojoportal is running on, instead of the fully qualified URL/domain name and now the feed seems to be working just fine... : )

thanks for helping me work through that! : )

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