Additional Directory Permissions for Plugin?

  • richardb87

    (@richardb87)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m getting the error message “I’m Told the Feed Isn’t Valid or Working”. I’ve tried all of the steps in the faqs without success. I’ve think I’ve narrowed the issue down permissions. Our server setup is a web farm running Windows 2008 r2 server with WordPress running on IIS with a MySQL database and the WordPress files located on a file share. The issue only appears on the web farm. I’ve created separate Windows server 2012 and 2008 r2 environments and run WordPress with the plugin successfully so the only difference that I can find is that the WordPress files are being hosted on a shared directory accessed with a special account for the web farm servers. Based on the faq page it seems like SimplePie is having an issue so my question is are there any temporary files created while reading an RSS feed or additional permissions that I would need to set up on directories when the plugin is being used? My second reason that it might be permissions is that loading a page that attempts to use the plugin takes a very long time that might be indicative of permissions being checked and denied.

    Any additional info or help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks!

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

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  • Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    does the rss feed work here?

    http://simplepie.org/demo/

    if it does then the problem is likely your server blocking access to the feed…if so, the I would check to make sure fopen is true in the php.ini file for your apache server.

    Thread Starter richardb87

    (@richardb87)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, Thank you for your quick reply!

    Yes, the feed works on the simplepie.org demo page. It’s also working on my other virtual machines just fine. I’ve checked the nodes in the web farm and the php.ini files have the following setting:

    allow_url_fopen = On

    The issue seems to be localized to the fact that the plugin and WordPress files are hosted on a remote/shared drive and not directly on the nodes running IIS. Is there anything related to permissions that might need to be set for a service account to create temporary files in some directory?

    Thanks again!

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