One way to do this would be to bind your server’s public IP address to your CM1 site in IIS, and then take the URL that the RSS feed icon generates and swap the internal IP address for this public IP address. As long as the request goes through your IIS server, the proxy setup we have in place should redirect IIS to the DTS feeds service no matter what root domain or IP address you use to connect to your IIS server.
Obviously the steps to properly make your site accessible to the public will be different from this, but this should work to keep your site mostly under wraps while still allowing you to share this feed with your app developers.
There is no way to directly generate an RSS feed based off a certain calendar (although this sounds like a great Idea to post up) – at the moment, only Auto-lists and Blog lists can generate RSS feeds based on their content. That said, if all of your calendar’s event pages exist within a few common folders (e.g. Sites/mysite.com/news/events) or use a unique template(s), then you could configure an Auto-list that pulls in only these event pages, and then create an RSS feed based on this Auto-list.
Thanks Nathaniel. I remember that now but I will definately make an idea post for that.
When I added the AutoList and then set everything up on it, it looks fine but when i press the RSS feed button, I get an error of 404 Not Found. Any ideas why? I did a full site publish last night after I created the page and added the widget.
That’s odd. The full site publish should have added the RSS feed to CM1’s RSS queue, which is triggered to get pushed out to your DTS Tomcat once every minute. To test whether the RSS feed did not get properly queued, please edit the contents of the Auto-list, deselect “Enable RSS feed” under Meta-data, save, and then publish that page out individually.
Next, simply reverse the process: reselect “Enable RSS feed”, save, and publish the page individually. Wait a couple minutes for the RSS feed to be queued and push out, and then attempt to access the feed. Let me know if it appears, or if it still comes back with the 404.
Matt, as this might be related to a known issue, I wanted to fork this problem off into it’s own topic so that it will be easier for other customers to track down, if they’re dealing with the same problem. Please reference the new topic here: New RSS feed give 404 error
Thanks for testing that. As this might be related to a known issue, I have forked this problem off into it’s own topic so that it will be easier for other customers to track down in the future. Please reference the new topic here: New RSS feed give 404 error