hi,

I have a strange problem, at http://www.criticalmass.at/ you have a point in the sidebar wich is called “Neues aus dem Forum”. this is an standard wordpress rss widget with the rss feed of the bbpress forum: http://www.criticalmass.at/forum/rss/

the feed itself is working fine, also the other rss widgets, but for the forum feed in the widget, it doesn’t show the newest topics/posts.

wordpress 2.5 & bbpress 0.9.0.1

[@pulk99 Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

just upgraded to 0.9.0.2, and it’s working again. not sure if it was the bbpress update or the 2.5.1 wordpress update.

[@pulk99 Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

ok, the problem is suddenly back. the rss feed isn’t updating in the widget anymore.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Did you try validating the feed

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.criticalmass.at%2Fforum%2Frss%2F

The feed URL returns a 404 Not found Error if you check the headers:

http://www.criticalmass.at/forum/rss/

This sounds like WordPress trying to handle the /forum/ URL and sending a 404 error when the page actually exists. There was a plugin to take care of this sort of thing, I think…

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156

I think that plugin will resolve the fact that the feed actually returns a 404 error, then I bet the widget will pull the feed just fine. Report back please…

[@pulk99 Member 16 years, 6 months ago]

thanks chris for the help, that did the job. since the rss feed was displaying fine in FF, I didn’t thought about validating it.

[@pulk99 Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

ok, this problem is now back, after I updated to wp 2.7 and bbpress 0.9.0.3.

now my feed doesn’t validate because of the date:

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

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line 18, column 39: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000 (35 occurrences) [help]

<pubDate>Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate></blockqoute>

and the rss widget doesn’t update again with new forum postings.

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 11 months ago]

You need to use the Alpha build if you’re trying to integrate between WP 2.7 and BB.

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@Ipstenu, that’s true. But integration working or not doesn’t have any bearing on whether or not the date in the RSS feed is incorrectly formatted, does it?

[@pulk99 Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

and I already use 1.0-alpha-4.1 of the bbPress Integration plugin.

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 11 months ago]

chrishajer, I have no idea if RSS change between things, but y’know, it’s habit. I don’t like to spend time debugging something that’s doesn’t mesh. There are a lot of possibilities to miss-match.

And pulk, either you have bbpress 0.9.x or you have bbpress 1.0-alpha-x. The plugin is not the same as using bbPress core 1.0-alpha. In your bb-config.php, what is your BBDB_CHARSET defined as?

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

I just validated the feed for one of the pages for this forum, and it came back as valid. The data format looks the same to me. I noticed in your date, there is a character missing from “Friday”:

<pubDate>Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate></blockqoute>

This date format is correct for RFC 822 from a Linux command line:

[~/ch/bbpress]$ date -R

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:12:42 -0500

So, I think there is just some problem with your date function, missing the “i” in Friday, or you typed incorrectly instead of pasting, and the missing “i” is just a typo.

[@pulk99 Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

thanks chris, this is my problem.

in my rss2.php in my themes folder I have the following line:

<pubDate><?php bb_post_time('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000'); ?></pubDate>

this is giving me this result:

<pubDate>Mo, 05 Jan 2009 21:58:55 +0000</pubDate>

but in the same file, the line:

<pubDate><?php echo gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000'); ?></pubDate>

is working fine. output:

<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:24:47 +0000</pubDate>

I have: define('BBDB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); in my bb-config.

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Sounds like there’s a problem with bb_post_time, or with the way the date is being stored in the database. What version of PHP and what version of MySQL are you using? Maybe there’s a bug?

Also, are you using a language file?

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Interesting, same problem here with Drupal:

http://drupal.org/node/232433

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

In the German locale the weekday symbol for friday is ‘Fr’ instead of English locale which is ‘Fri’.

http://rel.me/2008/07/22/date-format-rfc82285010361123asctimeiso8601unicode35tr35-6/