Tom, The first two lines are in the instructions for installing magpierss. The third is in the instructions for installing Alxndr RSS. The /magpierss path is inserted so that I could put the magpierss files into their own directory, and I decided to put rss.php (Alxndr's code) into that directory as well. I've received no complaints from the server for doing that. I don't know why the lines don't start with ${IP} or $IP like other require and include lines do. Magpie sez to put its two lines "at the top" of LocalSettings.php but nothing else in my configuration requires magpie so I thought it would be fine to just put them before the rss.php code, for which they are (apparently) a prerequisite. Thomas Dalton wrote: Where did you get those lines of code from? I can't find them anywhere.

I've never dealt with magpie, but it appears the $url in line 191 is not defined. Define it or put the url into line 191. Lennie On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alxndr/RSS (See the installation instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alxndr/RSS#Installation ) and http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55691 Download and view the file "INSTALL" Thomas Dalton wrote:

Thanks, Jim. I'll try this out this week. I'm just a dummy and when instructions say to "Download and save the Magpie RSS parser into the same directory," all I can assume is that I'm supposed to install magpie pursuant to magpie's installation instructions. Jim Hu wrote:

OK, nobody cares to take my feedimport help request. So I am trying to use Extension:RSS. I have renamed magpierss-0,72 directory to magpierss and updated LocalSettings.php accordingly. Now I am getting http 504 error. Is there anyone willing to help now? Thank you in advance. Nelson Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo California 90245, USA Registered in USA No: C-489-59 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nelson A Li/CIV/CSC@CSC Sent by: To mediawiki-l-bounc MediaWiki announcements and site es(a)lists.wikimedi admin list a.org &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; cc 03/10/2008 06:13 Subject PM Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extension help Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l@list s.wikimedia.org> Maybe I should show my code so that you can have a better idea about my problem. My wiki does not work when the following code is changed in feedimport.php: # define location of magpie ) #define('MAGPIE_DIR', '/opt/local/lib/php/magpierss/'); if (!isset(MAGPIE_DIR)) { define('MAGPIE_DIR', "C:\\HttpServer\htdocs\\neowiki\\extensions\\magpierss-0.72"); } Nelson Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo California 90245, USA Registered in USA No: C-489-59 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nelson A Li/CIV/CSC@CSC Sent by: To mediawiki-l-bounc MediaWiki announcements and site es(a)lists.wikimedi admin list a.org &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; cc 03/10/2008 05:11 Subject PM Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extension help Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l@list s.wikimedia.org> Hello, Have these C:\... errors been resolved? If yes, can Steve or someone please tell me how? I have problem defining the MAGPIE_DIR in Windows environment. I believe it is the same problem that Steve had. Nelson Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo California 90245, USA Registered in USA No: C-489-59 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck@spamc op.net> To Sent by: MediaWiki Announcements List mediawiki-l-bounc &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; es(a)lists.wikimedi cc a.org Subject [Mediawiki-l] Extension help 02/24/2008 06:07 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l@list s.wikimedia.org> Does anyone know how to resolve these problems: One gentleman suggested I check the $url variable, but I installed the magpierss code exactly as instructed (see lines from LocalSettings.php below) and I would not know what else to do. I'd actually prefer to use RSSReader (which is what I'm using now) but it had even more errors. Magpie/Alexndr had only these three. Notice: Undefined variable: url in C:\Inetpub\olr\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 191 Warning: MagpieRSS: fetch_rss called without a url in C:\Inetpub\olr\wiki\extensions\magpierss\rss_fetch.inc on line 238 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '>' in C:\Inetpub\olr\wiki\extensions\magpierss\rss.php on line 130 ============================= LocalSettings.php lines 189-192: 189 # AlxndrRSS 190 require_once("extensions/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc"); 191 $rss = fetch_rss($url); 192 include_once("extensions/magpierss/rss.php"); ============================= rss_fetch.inc lines 228-240: 228 function error ($errormsg, $lvl=E_USER_WARNING) { 229 global $MAGPIE_ERROR; 230 231 // append PHP's error message if track_errors enabled 232 if ( isset($php_errormsg) ) { 233 $errormsg .= " ($php_errormsg)"; 234 } 235 if ( $errormsg ) { 236 $errormsg = "MagpieRSS: $errormsg"; 237 $MAGPIE_ERROR = $errormsg; 238 trigger_error( $errormsg, $lvl); 239 } 240 } ============================= rss.php lines 128-130: 128 #check for errors. 129 if ($rss->ERROR) { 130 return «<div>Failed to load RSS feed from $url: ».$rss->ERROR."</div>"; #localize... 131 } _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Steve, Thank you for the promise. I will come in my office on Saturday to expect your help. When you have a better idea bout your schedule, could you please let me know? Nelson Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo California 90245, USA Registered in USA No: C-489-59 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck@spamc op.net> To Sent by: MediaWiki announcements and site mediawiki-l-bounc admin list es(a)lists.wikimedi &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; a.org cc Subject 03/11/2008 05:24 Re: [Mediawiki-l] RSS Extension PM help Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l@list s.wikimedia.org> Nelson, I'll try to help but I'm socked up at work till Saturday. Nelson A Li wrote: use _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l