RSS feeds??

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 03 Jun 2005, 05:24

I am pretty new to RSS feeds. Well, totally new, to be honest.

How do I implement this with Mantis?

I have looked at the blog link provided in a few messages here, but to be frank that does not tell me what to do.

Post by **vboctor** » 03 Jun 2005, 08:29

- The first step would be to setup an account in a tool like NewsGator Online, or install an RSS reader like RssBandit or RssReader.

- The second step is to make sure you can use the reader by subscribing to an rss link from a website like slashdot. The link you need to subscribe to is:
http://slashdot.org/index.rss

You can also subscribe to the link from my blog:
http://www.futureware.biz/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=5

Doing the above steps will get you familiar with the RSS concept and the reader tool that you are using. Now, start attempt to do the same with Mantis. Read the two blog entries below which will explain the urls that you can use to access the available feeds.

http://www.futureware.biz/blog/index.ph ... &tb=1&pb=1
http://www.futureware.biz/blog/index.ph ... &tb=1&pb=1

Regards,
Victor
MantisConnect
http://www.futureware.biz/mantisconnect

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06 Jun 2005, 03:45

Thanks - I have a working RSS feed from your website, plus a lot of global ones 9ie Firefox, etc).

I have read the blogs you mention - and I have done what it says (I think).

When I try to access my own RSS feed, with this sort of URL

http://10.0.0.254:4000/mantis/issues_rs ... ilter_id=4

I get an "Access Denied" form displayed.

I have done what the blog says -

I have set up an "Anonymous" user who has access to all projects
I have made. This is a user inside Mantis. This does not seem to make sense to me, but it did not seem a hard thing to do. I am using Apache on Windows, so file access issues are not as much a problem as in Linux.

I presume that I am not doding this correct/and or I am not understanding the access permissions.

Any ideas?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06 Jun 2005, 04:01

Ok - I finally have it working. I found the following message somewhere....

"What is not said, in plain english, is how to turn on the news syndication...

Go and edit the config_defaults_inc.php file and alter the following:

# --- anonymous login -----------
# Allow anonymous login
$g_allow_anonymous_login = OFF;
$g_anonymous_account = '';

to read

# --- anonymous login -----------
# Allow anonymous login
$g_allow_anonymous_login = ON;
$g_anonymous_account = '';

Now go check your RSS link and you'll have the news feed working..."

Since these lines have been omitted from the sample config file, you will need to add them.