hello
i have 2 websites , one running drupal 6 and one running drupal 4 and i want to enable rss on them, any idea, module...etc???

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dnewkerk’s picture

What do you mean by "enable RSS on them"? Do you want to create feeds for your own content, or do you want to embed external feeds from other sites?
For embedding, Drupal core has Aggregator, and a more robust module is SimpleFeed

For Drupal 4... you should really consider upgrading to Drupal 5 or 6, as 4 is no longer supported.

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Farouk111’s picture

Hello,
i just want to update readers with the new articles i write, (pages and book pages)
www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth

dnewkerk’s picture

Ah... That functionality, depending on how you use your site, is already built in. If you use the default front page for Drupal, there is a feed for that already provided at yoursite.com/rss.xml ... you can enable the Syndicate block which includes a link to it, or just link to it manually wherever you want. You can edit a few settings for this default feed at admin/content/rss-publishing.

If you're not using the default front page, then you can create a custom feed of the exact content you want using Views. Here's one post that talks about it: http://drupal.org/node/167205

Or try this search for more info: http://drupal.org/search/node/rss+feed

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Farouk111’s picture

thanks alot this is great, i did all that but the feed itself is empty !!!! when i click on the feed icnon the website is automatically bookmarked however there are no entries in it

www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth

tom-knox’s picture

from what i can see www.2knowmyself.com/rss.xml shows a populated rss feed.

Farouk111’s picture

that's really weird, if you can tell me what you see that would be great??

www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth

dnewkerk’s picture

I see one big block of text, single entry in the feed...

2KnowMySelf - The Ultimate Source for Self Understanding, getting more than 350,000 visits each month
Sometimes you find your life flowing in directions that you haven't anticipated. You may feel depressed about something that happened in the past..........

The solution is you need to use Views module to make a custom feed of exactly the content that you want to have in the feed. All you do is make a standard Views display like any other Views display, but instead of the usual "Page" or "Block" type, you choose "Feed". Give the feed an appropriate Path depending on what it's for... e.g. yoursite.com/latest/feed (or you can have it pretend to make a file name, e.g. yoursite.com/latest/rss.xml)

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Farouk111’s picture

Dear David
thanks for your reply
i have created a view now but i faced few issues, i dont know what to do with it, and i only provided the path of the page where i have my latest articles, now i still can't find anything other than the main page in the rss feed,can u help with this?

www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth