Kurt, I have never seen a mention of using ebay rss feed that I can remember.

Since the auctions update frequently, would this not put quite a strain on the server to use feeds from them?

If you have any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

Jeannie

Hi Jeannie,

I would really depend on how often you need to update the RSS pheeds, and how many pheeds need to be updated.

The actual updating is pretty much the same as a "hit" from a visitor. Updating 12 different actions every hour shouldn't be a problem.

It would also depend on how much traffic each page was getting. This would probably be a bigger drain of server resources since the pages are dynamically generated, however we should assume that if a page is getting traffic, it should generate more profit than the cost of hosting.

Thanks for answering that Kurt. I have other questions ...

For the config file for Blogbomb
1. If I want updates every 30 minutes would it be
$CACHE_EXPIRE = 60 * 30; ?

2.I put blogbomb inside a directory named feeds, so is this complete?
$FEEDSEARCH_SSI_URL = "http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/feeds";;

I have uninstalled and installed twice and get a 404 page when I try to log into admin panel, so something is not quite right.

I did ask for a XML:arser to be installed and was told they had done so.

Thanks for the help.

### Configuration file for feedsearch.
### (C) 2003, Kurt Melvin
###

$CACHE_EXPIRE = 60 * 30; # In seconds (60 * 60 * 24 = Once a day).

$DEFAULT_RESULTS = 10;
$MIN_RESULTS = 3;
$MAX_RESULTS = 15;

$ADMIN_PASSWORD = "mypass";

$FEEDSEARCH_SSI_URL = "http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/feeds";;

LAST EDITED ON Nov-23-07 AT 05:57 PM (PST)
 
Hi Jeannie,

This question should be posted on the BlogBomb installation threads, posted at the top of each page for your convenience.

If you are getting a 404 instead of a 500 error, it means you aren't typing the correct URL for the admin into your address bar.

Did you view the videos in thread "1 Installing BlogBomb" ? It may help you with the URL...

I'm closing this thread...If you need more help, please continue on one of the threads listed atop each forum page. Thanks...