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After using {cms_module module='News' number='50' dateformat='%b %d, %Y' makerssbutton='true' category='stiri*' sortby='news_date'} , I have the XML button, but the RSS link it provides is not clean. It looks something like this:

http://www.stiinta.info/index.php?mact= ... eturnid=69

How can I have the XML at the location I want, let's say http://www.stiinta.info/RSS/rssfeed.xml ?
Thanks for any suggestion!
Cristian

Hello,

You are right, it would be much better to have this nice myrssfeed.xml URL.
Why not try with the webserver URL rewritting abilities ? Do you know URL rewritting ?

Pierre M.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I do not know about URL rewriting capabillities, but I will have a look to what it is, and maybe give it a try!
cristian

I tried, but it goes beyond me...
I did, however cleaned the URL's in this way...
Is there a simple way to add a line in .htaccess which takes the ugly name and puts the one I want?
Something like RewriteRule uglyfile nicefile ?
thanks,
cristian

add something like this in your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^clean.xml$ index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,rss&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01category=&c\
ntnt01number=20&cntnt01returnid=15


before rewritecond clauses. (check your url from the rss feed first)

this is not the optimal solution and wont probably work in every installation

Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not work... I tried also some generators from the web, but the same negative result...
cristian

Hello cristian,

presura wrote: I tried, but it goes beyond me...

Thank you for searching, reading the doc and trying by yourself.

presura wrote: Something like RewriteRule uglyfile nicefile ?

Just the opposite, as tsw has suggested :
RewriteRule NiceExternalURL uglyinternalhack
(beware there are only 3 "words" and 2 spaces).

May be you should first try with a simple case {cms_module module='News' number='50' makerssbutton='true'} have a nice URL for it and then go for your complex case {cms_module module='News' number='50' dateformat='%b %d, %Y' makerssbutton='true' category='stiri*' sortby='news_date'} ?

BTW, with only internal pretty URLs ON (no .htaccess), my RSS URL is /news/rss. And tsw suggestion apply :
RewriteRule ^/RSS/rssfeed\.xml$ /news/rss

The rewrite rule should be after "rewriteengine on" but before other rewrite things. And may be with some [L] mark...
Do you have internal pretty URLs on or off ?
Do you have external pretty URLs on or off ?
What is your main URL ? (/index.php, /, /folder/index.php...)
Could you show us an extract of your config.php (fragment about URLs) and an extract of .htaccess ?
Where is your .htaccess ?

Pierre M.

Just to remind me ( )
I made a file generate-feeds.pl in the public_html/cgi-bin
The content is:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple qw(getstore);

getstore( "http://www.stiinta.info/index.php?mact= ... eturnid=52", "/home/stiinta/www/RSS/rssfeed.xml" );

So did you fix it?...

Yes.

I'm sure I just used the httaccess/friendly URL'S for CMSMS (as in documentation) and got them automatically in my RSS feed from news...

http://www.friendsofthejohnrylands.org/news/

@presura

Then please to add [solved] to subject line in first post...