Solved [Resolved] RSS link in front page only

Hello,

I'm migrating my current installation of Joomla 1.5.26 (with lots of extension, including Kunena 1.7.1) to Joomla! 2.5.4 using JUpgrade. The upgrade went fine, except that the Italian language hasn't migrated (but another upgrade to Kunena 1.7.2 fixed that).

I have another problem now: despite I enabled RSS in configuration (General -> Enable RSS feeds = Yes), they are shown in the forum home page only. In the old site there was a link in each page of the forum, and I could load a category-related RSS by simply visiting its page and clicking the RSS link at the bottom of the page.

I also noticed with Firebug that a placeholder per RSS feed is actually created: but this is still empty, whereas in the front page RSS links are something like:
I attached Kunena configuration report below: be aware that the "server" is actually my laptop, using for testing the migration... so it will not be the final environment.

Thanks in advance if you could send feedback...

Database collation check: The collation of your table fields are correct

Legacy mode: Disabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Disabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Missing | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 64M | Max file upload: 8M

Kunena menu details:

Joomla default template details : ja_elastica | author: JoomlArt.com | version: 2.5.0 | creationdate: Feb 2012

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle (default) | author: Kunena Team | version: 1.7.2 | creationdate: 2012-01-31

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.7.2 | Build: 5215 | Version name: Omega | Kunena detailled configuration:

Warning: Spoiler!

[th]Kunena config settings:[/th]

board_offline	0
board_ofset	0
enablerss	1
enablepdf	1
threads_per_page	20
messages_per_page	10
messages_per_page_search	15
showhistory	1
historylimit	6
shownew	1
jmambot	0
disemoticons	0
template	default
showannouncement	1
avataroncat	0
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showchildcaticon	1
annmodid	62
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username	1
askemail	0
showemail	0
showuserstats	1
showkarma	1
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useredittime	0
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captcha	0
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imageheight	800
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imagesize	150
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avatar_src
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popusercount	5
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imagequality	50
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catsautosubscribed	0
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Third-party components: CommunityBuilder 1.8 | UddeIm 2.6

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: System - Mootools Upgrade: Disabled | System - Mootools12: Disabled

Modules: Kunena Latest 1.7.2 | Kunena Login 1.7.2

G'day, MetaMorph, and welcome to Kunena.


It's next-to-impossible for us to resolve Kunena issues (such as the one you've mentioned) on websites that are not accessible on the internet. This is a case of Support for PC-hosted websites (e.g. WAMP, XAMPP) .

You may find that these problems only occur on a locally-hosted site and you may not have the same problems when you put the site on a properly setup server hosted by a service that does these things as part of their everyday business. It's something to consider.

Your configuration report shows that you Joomla menu (for Kunena) is not exactly "standard". I suggest you read How do I restore my Kunena menu? . What you have may work but, as I cannot see the site myself, I can't tell. Sorry.

Thanks for the very quick answer...

I tried to restore the Kunena Menu as suggested (I discovered now that he should have been used for creating aliases... I created a new menu item from scratch instead :blink: ), but this didn't work.

I'm planning to go online next Saturday: then I'll see if the problem will be fixed on its own, otherwise I'll post again here.

Again, thank you very much...

Can we see you updated configuration report, please, after you have made those changes?

Aside from that, I don't know what other help we can give you at this time. My guess is that when you go online next Saturday, there will be a lot more problems (unrelated to Kunena) for you to be worried about than this minor problem. That's I recommend that people should do their website development work online and not to use XAMPP because "localhost" development does not properly mimic the real world situation as you will encounter it later.

Here is the updated configuration report:

Database collation check: The collation of your table fields are correct

Legacy mode: Disabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Disabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Missing | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 64M | Max file upload: 8M

Kunena menu details:

Joomla default template details : ja_elastica | author: JoomlArt.com | version: 2.5.0 | creationdate: Feb 2012

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle (default) | author: Kunena Team | version: 1.7.2 | creationdate: 2012-01-31

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.7.2 | Build: 5215 | Version name: Omega | Kunena detailled configuration:

Warning: Spoiler!

[th]Kunena config settings:[/th]

board_offline	0
board_ofset	0
enablerss	1
enablepdf	1
threads_per_page	20
messages_per_page	10
messages_per_page_search	15
showhistory	1
historylimit	6
shownew	1
jmambot	0
disemoticons	0
template	default
showannouncement	1
avataroncat	0
catimagepath	category_images/
showchildcaticon	1
annmodid	62
rtewidth	450
rteheight	300
enableforumjump	1
reportmsg	1
username	1
askemail	0
showemail	0
showuserstats	1
showkarma	1
useredit	1
useredittime	0
useredittimegrace	600
editmarkup	1
allowsubscriptions	1
subscriptionschecked	1
allowfavorites	1
maxsubject	127
maxsig	300
regonly	0
changename	1
pubwrite	0
floodprotection	0
mailmod	0
mailadmin	0
captcha	0
mailfull	1
allowavatar	1
allowavatarupload	1
allowavatargallery	1
avatarquality	65
avatarsize	2048
allowimageupload	0
allowimageregupload	1
imageheight	800
imagewidth	800
imagesize	150
allowfileupload	0
allowfileregupload	1
filetypes	zip,txt,doc,gz,tgz
filesize	120
showranking	1
rankimages	1
avatar_src
fb_profile
pm_component
userlist_rows	30
userlist_online	1
userlist_avatar	1
userlist_name	0
userlist_username	1
userlist_posts	1
userlist_karma	1
userlist_email	0
userlist_usertype	1
userlist_joindate	1
userlist_lastvisitdate	1
userlist_userhits	1
latestcategory	0
showstats	1
showwhoisonline	1
showgenstats	1
showpopuserstats	1
popusercount	5
showpopsubjectstats	1
popsubjectcount	5
usernamechange	0
rules_infb	1
rules_cid	53
help_infb	1
help_cid	1
showspoilertag	1
showvideotag	1
showebaytag	1
trimlongurls	1
trimlongurlsfront	40
trimlongurlsback	20
autoembedyoutube	1
autoembedebay	1
ebaylanguagecode	en-us
fbsessiontimeout	1800
highlightcode	0
rss_type	topic
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rss_included_categories
rss_excluded_categories
rss_specification	rss2.0
rss_allow_html	1
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fbdefaultpage	recent
default_sort	asc
alphauserpointsnumchars	0
sef	1
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sefutf8	0
showimgforguest	1
showfileforguest	1
pollnboptions	10
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pollenabled	1
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polltimebtvotes	00:15:00
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maxpersotext	50
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post_dateformat_hover	datetime
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checkmimetypes	1
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imagequality	50
thumbheight	32
thumbwidth	32
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integration_login	communitybuilder
integration_avatar	communitybuilder
integration_profile	communitybuilder
integration_private	uddeim
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userdeletetmessage	0
latestcategory_in	1
topicicons	1
onlineusers	1
debug	0
catsautosubscribed	0
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showthankyou	1
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popthankscount	5
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bbcode_img_secure	text
listcat_show_moderators	1
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email_recipient_count	0
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email_visible_address
captcha_post_limit	0

Third-party components: CommunityBuilder 1.8 | UddeIm 2.6

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: System - Mootools Upgrade: Disabled | System - Mootools12: Disabled

Modules: Kunena Latest 1.7.2 | Kunena Login 1.7.2

sozzled wrote: ... That's I recommend that people should do their website development work online and not to use XAMPP because "localhost" development does not properly mimic the real world situation as you will encounter it later.

That's what I usually do, but this time I had to perform the entire site migration, which would have not been so complex if I hadn't to migrate also tens of extending components and plugins. I also had to experiment something that could harm the live site, or simply didn't know how to do in a glance (such as template overrides, particular content migration procedures and so on). Working on the live site meant closing it for about 2 months, since there's still activity in there: that's why I preferred to work on a local copy, and to repeat all the operations on the live site when I'll be ready (obviously, I'm not making any system upgrade on the old site...)

Thanks again for your feedback...

Dou you have any other menu items anywhere that have the same aliases as the ones you've setup for Kunena? Did you empty the menu trash, too? Have you read the Wiki article which discusses how to properly setup Joomla SEO?

Last but by no means least, the problem could most likely be caused by one of the many other Joomla extensions that you're also using. Also for you information, it's quite easy to setup hundreds of copies of a website - for example for the purposes of testing a Joomla migration or software upgrade - using the same web host as you currently use, with separate database tables, different domain names, whatever you like. There is no reason to try to replicate your live site on XAMPP because the operating conditions are totally different.

Good luck. You'll probably need it!