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Link to this post 22 Mar 11

Your instructions are truncated. Can you please complete them for us?

i got all the way to the part about setting the path in cron job, and the instructions are missing.
How do I finish this to use the rss to content plugin?
I have everything else ready to go, including the htaccess file edited.
This was where the text ended in your support section...
What are the remaining instructions please?

Home FAQ Ninja RSS to Content How Do I Set Up a Cron Job?
1) First, copy the url from the "Test Cron" in the backend. I'm going to call this the Cron URL from here on out. There are directions above in this thread on how to do it. 2) Second, edit your .htaccess file (should be right there in your joomla root) to add a 301 redirect. You need to do this because Cron at Cpanel and Dreamhost don't seem to like parameters being passed easily. Here's what that should look like: Code: redirect 301 /ninjarsscron http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/index.php?option=com_ninjarsstocontent&key=BIG_NUMBER_FROM_THE_CRON_URL_YOU_JUST_COPIED&format=raw This will basically convert the url "http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ninjarsscron" to the url with all the fun parameters we need. 3) Now all we need to do is create the cron task Here's how it looks in Cpanel: Go to "Cron Jobs" in the "Advanced" pane. Where

*** This is where your text ends with no idea how to create the cron path ***

Link to this post 22 Mar 11

Hi RichardR1,

That little HowTo was contributed by one of our members in a forum post. It looks like only part of it was copied to the FAQ item when we migrated our website over 5 days ago. I will fix that shortly.

In the meantime, you can access the original post here. Please do not post in that forum, as it is only there temporarily and will be removed soon.

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,
Mark

Link to this post 22 Mar 11

Hi RichardR1,

I've fixed the FAQ item: http://ninjaforge.com/faq/ninja-rss-to-content

I've also re-published the Ninja RSS to Content forum, and moved this topic into it.

Thanks for highlighting the problem with the FAQ item.

Cheers,
Mark

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