Fortress RSS feed problems

BigBrett · Post by **BigBrett** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:19 am

I have tried using two formats of the feedtracking URL, namely http://<website>/Fortress/Feeds/BugTrackingFeed.aspx/?pass=<password>&user=<user>&project=<project name> and http://<website>/Fortress/Feeds/BugTrackingFeed.aspx/?pass=<password>&user=<user>&pid=<project id>.

The first version used to work with DragNet and the second version worked for a while with Fortress. Now both versions just return "Invalid Login %Credentials". I know my password and user name are correct so am I missing something somewhere ?

Also, I cannot find anything on the feed feature anywhare in the help documentation.

Regards,
Brett

sibrowne · Post by **sibrowne** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:05 am

I've had the same problem using the following URL:

http://<server>/fortress/feeds/bugtrackingfeed.aspx/?pass=<password>&user=<user>&project=<project>

It worked fine for a few days but then started giving the 'Fortress Feed Error' message.

I haven't looked into why this was happening, as I intend to upgrade to 1.0.4 fairly soon (currently using 1.0.2) and I'm hoping that this might fix the problem.

Not much help, I know, but it does suggest a bug rather than user-error.

BigBrett · Post by **BigBrett** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:33 am

I'm already running 1.0.4 so no help there either !

Post by **jeremy_sg** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:03 am

I'm still working on figuring this out. Are the users that are connecting to the RSS feed web-only users? Were the users dragnet-only users before the upgrade?

BigBrett · Post by **BigBrett** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:17 am

Nope, I have a full fortress licence and had a vault/dragnet licence before the upgrade.

The second form of the URL did actually work for a while but no longer does so, if that is any help.

Regards,
Brett

Post by **jeremy_sg** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:28 am

Does it work again if you change the password for that user? Is it an active directory password?

sibrowne · Post by **sibrowne** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:33 am

I have a similar setup, with some users upgraded from Vault/Dragnet, some users new to Fortress and one web-only user.

Changing the passwords doesn't seem to help.

The feed seems to work if I use the Admin username and password though.

BigBrett · Post by **BigBrett** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:11 pm

We don't use AD so these are our Windows passwords. Changing my password does not make any difference. I can however confirm that setting the feeds to use the admin username and password lets the feed work again.

sibrowne · Post by **sibrowne** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:36 am

This isn't a good solution for me though, as I don't want to give the admin username and password out to every user!

sibrowne · Post by **sibrowne** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:32 am

Brett, from reading this thread that you started recently, it looks as though you have got around the problem mentioned here. How did you fix it?

BigBrett · Post by **BigBrett** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:09 am

I simply used the admin settings to get the RSS feed to work. For that other thread I also tried my own settings and I did get it to work (using Fortress 1.1) in IE7 but I have yet to try that in my normal RSS reader.

sibrowne · Post by **sibrowne** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:23 am

OK. I wanted to avoid using the admin settings.

We're still on 1.0.6 for now, which I can't get the feeds to work in IE7.
I'll try again when we upgrade to 1.1. Failing that, I'll have to try restarting the service or something like that!

Cheers.