I am new to 3D Aggregator - So far I am very impressed - Installed easily and runs very well and fast if run with the manual button.

Unfortunately I have recently been forced to move my site from Hostpapa for inadvertently violating their TOS by using excessive resources trying to get a similar automatic feed publishing Joomla extension to work. I now discover to late that my new host Fatcow does not support cronjobs.

I already use www.setcronjob.com to run cronjobs on my wordpress based sites and have been trying to get setcronjob.com to run cronjobs calling 3D Aggregator without success.

I have installed my Joomla site in a sub directory off the root and enabled and so have set my cronjob call to



this returns the error message "This URL returns "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" instead of 200 OK."

If I set the call to "http://domain/administrator/components/com_3daggregator" the cronjob appears happy and runs successfully and reports a successful run but nothing is published.

Any suggestions before I either try installing Joomla in the root or changing hosting companies again?

Hi masterchef,

I run a hosting company in th UK. And use aggregator myself. Cron and curl are supported for aggregator on our servers.


We won't ask you to move your site for excessive bandwidth use. If you sign upto one of our hosting plans just submit a support ticket asking for curl to be enabled on your account and we will activate for you.

If you require any more information just contact us through our contact us form. Hope you get sorted.

Regards

Tony

This post has been edited by 3D Web Design: Nov 29 2010, 01:36 PM

Hi Tony,

my problem with Hostpapa was violating their TOS by using excessive resources unintentionally while trying to get a similar product to aggregator to run by making external cronjob calls as I had been unable to get their cronjob system to work for me and the support appeared unable or unwilling to assist. I still currently host a wordpress site their.

How would you deal with me in a similar situation?

Moving hosts for the second time in just over a week seems excessive let alone the waste of my money!

Paul

This post has been edited by 3D Web Design: Nov 29 2010, 01:36 PM

avesovum, dont promote here some websites with links.

You can post example of your services in Hosting and Domains forum

Explain your services in this forum, but dont post links, please.

All very well telling him off but still no solution to my problem

masterchef, how big is Your site?

Every type of our Aggregators work unproblematic with over 50 feeds imported daily and over 1000 content items imported daily at host for 6 euro monthly.

You must configure site to import not many rss feeds at one time, schedule feeds in this way:
- feed 1 is imported now
- feed 2 is imported after 30 minutes
- feed 3 is imported after 70 minutes and so.

If your site is really huge (over 20000-30000 articles) you must migrate to vps server.

P.S. For big sites that used aggregator keep in mind that if you use sef urls rewriting component load to server will be higher 20-50%. Use joomla sef better.


About cronjob: Open this url address in your browser and post here result:

Here is a code contained in the file cron.3daggregator.php

<?php

define( '_JEXEC', 1 );

define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
define('JPATH_BASE', substr(__FILE__,0,strrpos(__FILE__, DS."components")));
define('JPATH_COMPONENT', JPATH_BASE .DS.'components'.DS.'com_3daggregator');

require_once( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );
require_once( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'helper.php' );
require_once( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'toolbar.php' );

$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');
$mainframe->initialise();

require_once ( JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'controller.php');
require_once ( JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'helpers'.DS.'3daggregator.php');
require_once ( JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'helpers'.DS.'cron.php');

define('SPIE_CACHE_AGE', 60*10);


require_once( JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'inc'.DS.'xajax.inc.php');
require_once( JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'inc'.DS.'simplepie'.DS.'simplepie.inc');

JRequest::setVar('task','cron','get');

$controller = new AggregatorController();

$controller->importcron();

echo 'Import finished';
?>

I am re-establishing my site so the database only contains a few articles at this time but will eventually contain 300 - 400 feeds and may thousands of articles.

masterchef, other way to lower server load is: you must select to publish content items for a certain period of time. This is configured from option: "Publish duration (days)" - in Publish tab options.

Example: you enter 30 days. All imported content will be active 30 days after this moment and at 31 day will be going to inactive mode.

After this install this plugin in your system, guide is here: plugin that automate deletion of expired articles

When content items going to inactive, plugin delete automatically them, in this way your database will be stay small.

Solving my own problem.

After careful checking I realized that the file cron.3daggregator.php was somehow missing from the com_3daggregator directory. I uninstalled the extension, deleted the directory and the re-installed the extension to find it works extremely well with cronjob calls from www.setcronjob.com which I can thoroughly recommend. They offer free accounts which should suit most people or for a very modest amount you can upgrade to a professional account.

I have yet however to get my webhost`s cron panel to run 3daggregator, I`m guessing that I have not yet got the file path syntax correct for the server, never mind - if it aint broke why fix it - I`ll continue to use www.setcronjob.com as its so easy