Validation and install issues

[ixchelha]

Hello

Installed PowerPress Plug-In
Configured Settings
Selected Feeds
Selected Validate From Podcast Channel Feeds

Firstly url does not resolve http://mydomain/feed/podcast/

Note: as I can not find a folder for this I assuming this path is generated in the db OR The folders are simply not created ??

The following code was produced From Feed Validator.

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found [help]

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 29, column 51: Image title doesn't match channel title [help]

<title>Blog Title » Page not found</title>
^
line 33, column 1: Missing recommended iTunes channel element: itunes:category [help]

</channel>
^
line 33, column 1: The recommended <itunes:email> element is missing [help]

</channel>
^
Source: http://mydomain.org/feed/podcast/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
>

<channel>
<title>Blog Title</title>
<atom:link href="http://mydomain.org/feed/podcast/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link>http://mydomain.org</link>
<description>My Description</description>
<lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:22:23 +0000</lastBuildDate>
<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
<language>en</language>
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
<itunes:summary>Southern Belizean weblogs</itunes:summary>
<itunes:author>Ixchel Ha - Blogeeze</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:image href="http://mydomain.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/itunes_default.jpg" />
<itunes:subtitle>Southern Belizean weblogs</itunes:subtitle>
<image>
<title>Blog Title » Page not found</title>
<url>http://mydomain.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg</url>
<link>http://mydomain.org</link>
</image>
</channel>
</rss>


Can anyone help

Thanks Jonathan -

[angelo]

Simple answer, your podcast feed is reporting 404 by WordPress (not PowerPress) because the feed is empty. Create 1 podcast episode, and your feed will no longer be 404 and should validate.

[ixchelha]

I have already uploaded a *.mp3 file to http://ixchelha.org/podcast/test.mp3
So as I have already done this. Q Is there a specific location these files should go?
I have a link in the first post which I am testing http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/12/farm-work/
Thanks in advance Jonathan
PS According to the WPMU Docs, Wordpress adds the necessary rss feed automatically. I am not sure this is the case:
From Chrome http://ixchelha.org/feed/
This is what I get
Ixchel Ha - Blogeeze http://ixchelha.org Southern Belizean weblogs Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:22:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Test Work http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/12/farm-work/ http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/12/farm-work/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:14:33 +0000 JJ      http://ixchelha.org/?p=24 http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/12/farm-work/feed/ 1 Hello Belize! http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/07/hello-world/ http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/07/hello-world/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:38:08 +0000 admin http://ixchelha.org/2010/06/07/hello-world/feed/ 1

[angelo]

First, re-enable PowerPress. I'm looking at your blog currently looks like PowerPress is disabled. You need it enabled all the time for Podcasting support to work.

Then, go to the edit post page (edit the post you want to make into a podcast episode) in WordPress admin, browse below the edit post area and look for an input box like the one pictured. Enter the Media URL (http://ixchelha.org/podcast/test.mp3) into the "Media URL" field, then click "save".

This is the podcast box PowerPress adds to the bottom of your edit post screen:

[ixchelha]

Reactivated
Form available at footer of post
added as advised
Error

[angelo]

Can you run the diagnostics under the "Tools" page? Is everything compatible with your server?

[ixchelha]

Blog Title: MyTitle
Blog URL: http://mysite.org
WordPress Version: 2.9.2
WordPress MU Version: 2.9.2
System: Apache/2
Safe node: false
Open basedir:

Important PowerPress Settings
    PowerPress version: 1.0.8
    advanced mode: true
    episode box mode: advanced
    Podcasting capability: Disabled (default)
    Feed capability: Disabled (default)
    Category Podcasting: Disabled (default)
    Podcast Channels: Disabled (default)
    Additional Player Options: Enabled

Detecting Media Information
    success: true
    warning: false
    allow_url_fopen: true
    curl: true
    message: Your web server supports the PHP cURL library. Your web server is also configured with the php.ini setting 'allow_url_fopen' enabled, but the cURL library takes precedence.
    message 2:

Pinging iTunes
    success: true
    curl_ssl: true
    openssl: true
    message: Your web server supports secure HTTPS connections.

Uploading Artwork
    success: true
    file_uploads: true
    writable: true
    upload_path: /home/sites/mysite.org/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/powerpress/
    message: You are able to upload and save artwork images for your podcasts.

System Information
    success: true
    warning: no
    php_version: 5.2.12
    memory_limit: 64M     memory_used: 14.6M
    temp directory: /home/sites/mysite.org/public_html/wp-content/
    message: Your version of PHP (5.2.12) is OK!
    message 2: You are using 22% (14.6M of 64M) of available memory.
    message 3: Temporary directory /home/sites/mysite.org/public_html/wp-content/ is writable.

Active Plugins
    Title: Contact Form 7
    Relative Path: contact-form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php
    Version: 2.2.1
    Web Site: http://contactform7.com/

    Title: Blubrry PowerPress
    Relative Path: powerpress/powerpress.php
    Version: 1.0.8
    Web Site: http://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/

    Title: WordPress Hashcash
    Relative Path: wp-hashcash.php
    Version: 4.5.1
    Web Site: http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/

[angelo]

I do not see any issues. You should have received an error included with that screen shot error occurred message.

Can you try verifying this URL? http://media.blubrry.com/pluginspodcast/content.blubrry.com/pluginspodcast/Plugins031_Configure_SMTP.mp3 Do you get an error message or does it work correctly?

[ixchelha]

OK no errors

[angelo]

Is your mp3 in stereo or joint stereo, and 64,96,128,192kbps bit rate and using either 22Khz or 44Khz sample rate? May be that your audio is is not being detected by the getid3 library that we use in PowerPress.

[ixchelha]

Hello again
Created my own file test01.mp3 with Audacity. Uploaded to - http://ixchelha.org/podcast/test01.mp3
This almost worked the file was seen by getid3 library but file info could not be read.
Q What settings should I use?
Thank you for all your help.
Jonathan

[ixchelha]

Good afternoon

?Q Is there RewriteRule & RewriteCond required in .htaccess the folder in question?

File permissions are set as 755 for this folder.

Thanks in advance Jonathan

[ixchelha]

Hello again
Created my own file test01.mp3 with Audacity. Uploaded to - http://ixchelha.org/podcast/test01.mp3
This almost worked the file was seen by getid3 library but file info could not be read.
Q What settings should I use?
Thank you for all your help.
Jonathan

NOTE: Downloaded the *.mp3 Blubrry offered to test. Audacity show the setting as pretty much that which was set as default and I have used to create my test.
This file when upload to the ixchelha.org gave an error.
Refer below:-

[angelo]

I am not sure exactly what is occurring, I'll be adding additional debug message details to the next release of PowerPress coming very soon. Please hang tight.

[jasonbutler42]

It sounds like I am having this exact same problem. Word for word this is the same thing I'm experiencing. Could this have something to do with WordPress 3.0 and the multisite options? Maybe a redirect problem somewhere?