Friday, July 13, 2007

Configure RSS Viewer Wepart for MOSS 2007

Step 1:
Create a Custom List and add few items to it
Step 2:
Click on the Action Dropdown from List>> View RSS Feed Copy the URL

Step 3:
Go back to Homepage Add the RSS Viewer Webpart
Step 4:
Click on the Open the tool pane URL and add your List URL to the RSS Feed URL. Now u will get “The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feeds”. In order to resolve this Error all you to do is to configure Anonymous access to your Site.

1. Go to Central Administration>> Application Management
2. Below the Application Security Tab click on the Authentication providers Link
3. Change it to your web application url using the “Change Web
Application”
4 Now navigate through “Default” link
5 Select “Enable anonymous access” check box and then click on Save button
6 Now go to your webapplication Navigate through Site Actions>>Site settings
7 Click on “Advanced permissions” link below the Users and permissions section.
8 Select “Settings>>Anonymous Access” and then select the radio button for “Lists and libraries” and click ok.
9 Now go back to your home page where u placed your RSS viewer webpart.

Now yours RSS Viewer webpart works for your portal Lists and Libraries.

Step 5:
In order to work for Internet enabled RSS Feed add this Section to the webapplication web.config (ex C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\web.config.
proxy proxyaddress="http://" bypassonlocal="true"

under the System.net

Restart IIS

Now your RSS viewer works for internet RSS Feeds too


Reference:
http://blogs.msdn.com/adamhems/archive/2006/06/13/configuring-the-sharepoint-3-0-rss-reader-to-use-a-proxy-server.aspx

1 comment:

S M Asad Abbas said...

1. I went to Announcements List page. Clicked on Actions>>View RSS Feed.

2. It showed a confirmation page, with a "subscribe to this RSS feed" link.

3. when i clicked the link it showed a page with "Page cannot be displayed", titled invalid syntax error.

plz help