Struggling to display RSS feed using ASP script 1

[TobyA]

Dear All,

Firstly, I am not a programmer, so forgive my complete and utter ignorance of all things ASP related.

I am trying to display an RSS feed on a website using some ASP which I found on this website -

http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/rss/rss_content_feed_class_dl.htm

I have downloaded the script and running it locally it works (kind of):-

However, when I put this page on my web server I get an error message:-

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/

The ASP file is here:-

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/rss_content_feed_class.1.txt

I presume this is a permissions issue? How do I grant the file the necessary permissions?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Toby

 

[monksnake]

Your permission denied error is on the OpenTextFile statement. I found this website that SHOULD have an answer to you problem.

It addresses permission denied on OpenTextFile, and will require some server changes.

http://www.aspemporium.com/tutorials.aspx?tid=9

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[TobyA]

Hi monkshake,

That has solved my problem - Thank you so much!

I gave the IUSR account modify permissions to that directory and it works now!

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/

While you're on... Any idea how I display the news stories properly, rather than just the URLs?

Currently I have -

response.write "<h3>" & rss.ChannelTitle & "</h3>"

Dim i
For Each i in rss.Results
response.write rss.Links(i) & "<br>"
Next

Presumably I need to add more response.write commands to display the news heading and story....

I think perhaps I need to pay a programmer to do this for me.

Thanks again for your help anyway monkshake.

 

[monksnake]

Cool, glad it worked. About the second question, I'll look into it. I don't know hardly anything about RSS feeds, but I'm interested in them, so I'll see what I can do.

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[TobyA]

monkshake...

It's OK - My mate has helped me out and got it working now:-

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/

FYI I've put the source code here:-

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/index.txt

Thanks again for your help

 

[monksnake]

Ok. Thanks for the source code post, I'll take a look at it.

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