Plugin Author
Allen
(@amweiss98)
Hello
I put your feed into my public server (running hostgator shared server), using WP 3.9.1 and the lastest version of the plugin and here is the result
http://www.wprssimporter.com/test-page/
As you can see, it works fine. What this tells me is that the feed is fine, the plugin is working, but something on your server is blocking the feed from coming in. I would contact your server to see if they are blocking any incoming RSS feeds.
Thread Starter
mook25
(@mook25)
Mine is running hostgator and is a business server rather than shared so would expect to have more functionality than a shared but will have a word. Just out of interest did you have to contact hostgator to get yours working first?
Plugin Author
Allen
(@amweiss98)
no, I’m just using it hostgator and never contacted them.. If you are on a business server, make sure you have php fopen set to ON (if it’s not ON, then your server will block incoming RSS feeds)
Thread Starter
mook25
(@mook25)
ok looks like php fopen is set to on however they say you may be using certain ports with the plugin? I have included hostgators response below:
Thank you for contacting HostGator. I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been experiencing some RSS issues with your site. I’ve confirmed that both allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include are enabled in the server’s PHP configuration, so those shouldn’t be the cause of the problem. However, if your site is trying to connect outbound on a nonstandard port we will likely need to whitelist it or you’ll receive connection refused errors. Could you provide some additional information on how we may reproduce the problem so we can see what’s going on?
[root@gator3082 ~]# grep allow_url /usr/local/lib/php.ini
allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = On
Plugin Author
Allen
(@amweiss98)
ok…well, I’m out of suggestions on how to help you…there is something going on, I presume, then, with the feeds….find some standard RSS feed (like from CNN) and see if you run into the same problem.
