1 Quick fixes for RSS-feed problems in SnipSnap 0.5.1a {anchor:Quick fixes for RSS-feed problems in SnipSnap 0.5.1a} Upgrading to SnipSnap 0.5.1a has gone smoothly with a few exceptions. One such exception is RSS feeds. As they are, SS 0.5.1a's RSS feeds are broken in (at least) two ways. First, the HTML that SnipSnap generates advertises the associated RSS feed as being at __~~base~~/ss/exec/rss__, but visiting that URL causes a 500 Internal Error because there is no __snip=~~snip~~__ in the associated QUERY_STRING. Second, the RSS that is generated contains relative URLs, but they are broken w.r.t. the __link__ elements in the RSS __item__ elements, which many news aggregators use as the HTML BASE when displaying encoded feed items. As a result, images don't load, and links don't work. The fix, as usual, is to add a few Apache RewriteRules: {code:none} \# The following workarounds are for SnipSnap 0.5.1a's broken RSS feeds RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !snip= RewriteRule ^/ss/exec/rss$ /ss/exec/rss?snip=start [L,R] RewriteRule ^/ss/space/theme/(.*) /ss/theme/$1 [L,R] RewriteRule ^/ss/space/space/(.*) /ss/space/$1 [L,R] {code} 2004-03-30 14:49:42.272 2004-03-30 14:49:42.272