rss feeds; making the orange icon in firefox appear

binary_pearl · 10-10-2010, 08:45 PM

I'm trying to create an rss feed server on my personal computer (with Apache and php).

My goal is, when you go my website, the orange rss feed icos appears in firefox (or however any other browser does the equivalent).

I was able to create a valid RSS xml file, which I called "rss.xml". For now, I put the rss.xml file in the htdocs directory (/var/www/localhost/htdocs/rss.xml)

But when I go to my home page, the icon in the browser does not appear to indicate that there is an rss feed that you can subscribe to.

Could anyone tell me what I am missing, or point me in the right direction to get a website to automatically see that there is an rss feed available? Thanks!

--Shaun

smoker · 10-11-2010, 12:30 AM

In your home page you need to add the link to the head section of the page.
look for

Code:

<link rel="alternate"

in the source of this page.

binary_pearl · 10-11-2010, 06:42 AM

Thanks Smoker, that pointed me in the right direction. Here is the entire <link> tag that I needed to use:

<head>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Testing RSS Feeds" href="/rss.xml"></link>
</head>

--Shaun