Aggregator question - is it possible to include/exclude weblogs?

[richiebaby]

Hi,

I would simply like confirmation that I am right in thinking that if you use an aggregator front page weblog, then the aggregator has access to the posts/comments of all other weblogs and there is not a way to exclude a weblog from the aggregator without disabling the weblog.

Thank you.

[Nathan Beyer-3]

I think if you use the planet aggregator as the front page, there may be a
way to remove the entire-site feed from planet and then just add individual
blog feeds as desired. It has been a while since I played with the planet
admin page, so I don't recall exactly what can and can't be done.

-Nathan

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:35 AM, richiebaby <rich.johns@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I would simply like confirmation that I am right in thinking that if you
> use
> an aggregator front page weblog, then the aggregator has access to the
> posts/comments of all other weblogs and there is not a way to exclude a
> weblog from the aggregator without disabling the weblog.
>
> Thank you.
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>

[Dave Johnson-8]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Nathan Beyer <ndbeyer@...> wrote:
> I think if you use the planet aggregator as the front page, there may be a
> way to remove the entire-site feed from planet and then just add individual
> blog feeds as desired. It has been a while since I played with the planet
> admin page, so I don't recall exactly what can and can't be done.

Yes, that approach would work. Planet creates a default aggregation
group which includes all blogs in the system, but you don't have to
use that. Instead, you'd create a new aggregation group in planet, add
only the blogs you want and then display that group on your site's
front page.

- Dave

[richiebaby]

Dave Johnson-8 wrote:

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Nathan Beyer <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I think if you use the planet aggregator as the front page, there may be a
> way to remove the entire-site feed from planet and then just add individual
> blog feeds as desired. It has been a while since I played with the planet
> admin page, so I don't recall exactly what can and can't be done.

Yes, that approach would work. Planet creates a default aggregation
group which includes all blogs in the system, but you don't have to
use that. Instead, you'd create a new aggregation group in planet, add
only the blogs you want and then display that group on your site's
front page.

- Dave

Thanks for the response.

Could you please breifly explain what this 'Planet' system is, after reading the user guides I am still none the wiser?

It appeared as though 'Planet' settings would be made to the custom properties file but I haven't found an example of what to put in there and what the desired outcome should be.

I am basically hoping to have 2 aggregator pages on one Roller installation.

Thanks

[richiebaby]

richiebaby wrote:

Dave Johnson-8 wrote:

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Nathan Beyer <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I think if you use the planet aggregator as the front page, there may be a
> way to remove the entire-site feed from planet and then just add individual
> blog feeds as desired. It has been a while since I played with the planet
> admin page, so I don't recall exactly what can and can't be done.

Yes, that approach would work. Planet creates a default aggregation
group which includes all blogs in the system, but you don't have to
use that. Instead, you'd create a new aggregation group in planet, add
only the blogs you want and then display that group on your site's
front page.

- Dave

Thanks for the response.

Could you please breifly explain what this 'Planet' system is, after reading the user guides I am still none the wiser?

It appeared as though 'Planet' settings would be made to the custom properties file but I haven't found an example of what to put in there and what the desired outcome should be.

I am basically hoping to have 2 aggregator pages on one Roller installation.

Thanks

Update: So I've been able to configure Planet by following the instructions on page 14 of the roller-install-guide.pdf.

I also had to make use of the 4.0 release notes as there was a lot of info missing from the install guide, for example the need for a planet-custom.properties file.

useful link: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Roller+4.0+Release+Notes

New Problem
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I am having difficulty creating a new aggregator with a weblog that is within Roller. I have gone to the Planet Admin/Subscriptions screen and am trying to add my Roller weblog called 'dummyOne'.

In the Newsfeed URL I am putting: http://hostname/roller/dummyOne/

However, I receive the error message: Duplicate subscription? - Connection refused: connect

Should I be able to add weblogs like this?

The stack trace from the logs is:

ERROR 2008-08-11 15:13:11,537 PlanetSubscriptions:save - Unexpected error saving subscription
Error fetching subscription - http://hostname/roller/dummyOne
--- ROOT CAUSE ---
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.syndication.fetcher.impl.HttpURLFeedFetcher.retrieveFeed(HttpURLFeedFetcher.java:112)
        at org.apache.roller.planet.business.fetcher.RomeFeedFetcher.fetchSubscription(RomeFeedFetcher.java:87)
        at org.apache.roller.weblogger.planet.business.WebloggerRomeFeedFetcher.fetchSubscription(WebloggerRomeFeedFetcher.java:72)
        at org.apache.roller.planet.business.fetcher.RomeFeedFetcher.fetchSubscription(RomeFeedFetcher.java:66)
        at org.apache.roller.weblogger.planet.ui.PlanetSubscriptions.save(PlanetSubscriptions.java:113)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor279.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

[richiebaby]

I got the planet subscriptions working,  I was able to subscribe to blogs within Roller itself using the following newsfeed URL:

http://localhost:8080/roller/dummyOne/feed/entries/rss

The localhost:8080 was the important bit.