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This is an old revision of WheelDog made by WheelDog on 2005-05-06 16:37:14.
Greetings from the Dog Yard
My name is Doug. I'm an elementary school teacher from Alaska who recently discovered wikis. I'm using Wikka Wiki to develop a site for teachers to collaboratively develop classroom research projects.
The site is at Northern Attitude
I am not a web developer - just a teacher who wants to use socially enbabled software to find out if maybe there is a better way to do things. It seems that the more I learn, the more I want to do.
And so I am becoming...progressively...a geeky teacher.
True North Development Issues
I appreciate any efforts to help me with the glitchy problems I seem bound to run into. I was in the process of writing a blog entry praising JavaWoman's efforts when I checked this page to make sure I had the link right and noticed her comment about my rss feed. I began responding in the comments field when I decided to just go ahead create a section on this page for this discussion. If we want to delete (or use) any part of this when we get things straightened out that's fine with me. I took the curly brackets out of the references to the rss feeds for the sake of reporting, without displaying, the problem. Put them back in to see what I'm talking about.I used rss http://dev-server.northstar.k12.ak.us/doug/denali/blogs/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=1 to generate the feed on the wiki at the class blog page. When I try that in Thunderbird I get "not a valid feed." Then I tried the bloglines feed I set up at my bloglines noon_bloggers folder.
It looks fine at bloglines, but on True North rss http://dev-server.northstar.k12.ak.us/doug/denali/blogs/xmlsrv/atom.php?blog=1 only displays the error message. This doesn't make sense to me because nothing behaves the same in different places. The blog is on a paranoid locked-down development server that my school district uses for their vocational ed program. The blog is at a Noon_Bloggers They have apache configured to discourage browsing directories, and they are running PHP 5 on.
- Thanks for all the data - that made it easier for me to do a bit of analysis. With JwRssTest depressing results. Sorry about that. Certainly not your fault, let alone a typo as I suspected at first - it seems to be purely an Onyx-RSS problem. We'll be looking for a replacement to use with Wikka - but first I'll try to find a workaround to get rid of the silly errors. One thing is sure: it does not support the Atom format at all and we are not going to "fix" that, so use one of the other three formats in your wiki. More as I find more... --JavaWoman
- I've created a klugey workaround that will at least not clutter up your page with useless error messages; you can always check the HTML suorce to see if there are any. I've installed it on this site as a beta. See JwRssTest for the code - just grab the code (use the button to download); make a backup copy of /actions/rss.php (for instance rename it to rss_orig.php) and replace the file with the downloaded code. It's just a band-aid, but it should help some. If you need help with that, let us know. --JavaWoman
JavaWoman may also notice that I am running True North on a new subdomain, and I still can't work out the mod_rewrite issues. I'm up for an IRC session to see if we can take care of that problem as well. If I check in around 11:00 pm Alaska time on Sunday, I wonder if that would work? If schedules and time differences are a problem with IRC (I'm about as far away as a person could be, I think) support from here may get the job done as well.
- I was keeping an eye on things, and noticed that you first got the 'wiki' subdomain working, and next the 'truenorth' subdomain. Congrats! I reckoned you went to bed after that (some links from your blog don't work now, but maybe you're just leaving that till it's all as you want it?). Getting the mod_rewrite working now should be straightforward, but maybe you've messed around with it too much by now :) Anyway, Sunday for IRC is fine - a little bit earlier is fine, too - I don't usually get up later in the weekend. I'll be around, and maybe I can convince DarTar to be there as well. We'll get you sorted, I'm sure. And it will be fun to "talk" in real time :) --JavaWoman
- I forgot about the blog links! I should hire you to keep an eye on me. I'll talk to you at the #wikka channel Sunday eve (Alaska time)-I've never used IRC to do anything. So the teacher is going to get another lesson.
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