[webgen-users] issue with feed generation

Thomas Leitner
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:50:32 -0000

Am Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:22:42 +0200
schrieb "Nicolas Delsaux" <nicolas.delsaux at gmail.com>:

> Hi, like a previous user
>
(http://groups.google.com/group/webgen-users/browse_thread/thread/7388729b34c5aaad/fc0167d192818410?lnk=gst&q=feed#fc0167d192818410),
> I encounter issue with feed generation.
> I''ve copied, more or less, Thomas config and updated to be like
this
>
> ---
> title: Le site - flux complet
> description: Toutes les nouvelles
> site_url: http://nicolas.delsaux.free.fr/lifestream
> author: Nicolas Delsaux
> site_url: http://nicolas.delsaux.free.fr/lifestream
> number_of_entries: 10
> rss: true
> entries: [*.html]
>
> But webgen always replies me an error message :
>
> An error has occurred:   Error reading source path </all_data.feed>:
> Found start line for meta information block but no valid meta
> information block
>
> Can one tell me why this error appears ?

I have copied the above all_data.feed to a webgen website and run
webgen 0.5.6 which works just fine.

If you use a lower webgen version, you might have to add three dashes
at the end of the file to delimit the meta information block. Support
for omitting those has been introduced on 22.08.2008, so any official
webgen version afterwards supports this.

-- Thomas