Hello all,

I am using Liferay Portal Standard Edition 5.2.3 (Augustine / Build 5203 / May 20, 2009) running on CentOS 5.3, using Tomcat 6.0.18. I have added the RSS portlet to a page and attempted to add 3 different feeds to it from within the same Liferay instance and community:

1. A blog at https://my.server.com/group/bgs/blog/-/blogs/rss
2. The recent changes list of a wiki at https://my.server.com/c/wiki/rss?p_l_id=23702&nodeId=10320&type=rss&version=1.0
3. The recent posts list of a forum at https://my.server.com/c/message_boards/rss?p_l_id=23731&groupId=10254

The RSS Portlet reports all 3 as "cannot be found". Any reasoning why this would not work? Something to do with SSL perhaps?

On a related note, I wonder if there is some way to also get an RSS feed of a recently modified documents portlet (like could be created by the Asset Publisher pointed at the document library). It would also be good to feed the recently added/modified internet links.

I also cannot seem to pick those feeds up from Zimbra Desktop. Internet Explorer seems to show them ok though.

Thank you,
- Scott

Hi Scott,

RSS portlet uses URL class from Java to connect to RSS source, so it would connect through application server. If your connection to internet is going through proxy server, you need to configure your app server so every connection initiated from it should goes through your proxy server.

In tomcat 6.0.18, you can configure http proxy in $tomcat_home/conf/catalina.properties. Add these following lines :

http.proxyPort=8080
http.proxyHost=myproxyserver.com

Hope it helps !

Chris

Thanks for the reply, Chris. Unfortunately, I am not utilizing a proxy at the moment. Any outside RSS feed I add to it, such as a Yahoo news feed, shows up fine. I have a sneaky suspicion it has to do with the HTTPS or the fact that it is on a liferay system that requires authentication.

Frankly, the main problem is not that I can't get the RSS portlet to display Liferay RSS feeds (although I think this is a good first step towards my ultimate goal). The main thing I wish to accomplish is making those Liferay RSS feeds securely available to users on the internet. Is this possible? I'd like my Zimbra Mail RSS subscriptions to include updates made to Liferay (Blogs, doc library, wiki, links, forums, etc.). I'd like these RSS feeds to require authentication but since Zimbra and Liferay are using the same LDAP database for authentication, it should work in a SSO fashion.

Anyone have any hints on how to get this accomplished?

I am having the same issue.

I am currently trying to work out the best method for implementing RSS on a live site, (I'm open to suggestions by the way). The approach I was going to take was to create a hidden page, and populate this with web content portlets. Then creating the RSS feed in the web content --> feeds area.

I have got this working fine (although it does show "all" of the text, and I'd much prefer it to show just part of the text, and a "read more" button to see more)....

The issue that I do have though is I thought it would be nice to show it in the RSS portlet, and have that on an accessible page where the user can choose to subscribe or not.

However, when I add the new feed to the RSS portlet I get....

the https address /-/journal/rss/10128/77016?doAsGroupId=10128&refererPlid=73176 cannot be found.

*BUMP*

Did anyone ever find out a solution to this? I'm experiencing the same issue..

Thanks!

Brian