Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

[Pixxi]

I've just checked my feed file with a text editor and the dates are showing correctly as 2006-10-19. How are you looking at your feed file? Eg. if you load it into Excel, Excel will change the date.

Have you looked in your Google Base admin to see if you have an error with any of the products in your feed?

[lhhgbh]

Well I have two sites and the Flag one goes through perfectly..

My Suchatees one says it creates the txt file with no errors.. When i try to upload it to google, it says succesful, yet it doesnt show up on Google.. Then i tried to physically go in and add it to google using the upload feature and it says it uploaded fine, but when I wait a while and go back there, there is nothing, no date, no rejection, no items.. nothing..

[Pixxi]

If you look at your feed file with a text-editor (after generating it), are the dates correct?

Once you've uploaded a feed it can be a while before Google shows/processes it.

Are there any errors showing in your Google admin for the upload? Are they giving you errors about the dates?

[lhhgbh]

Thats the thing, its not saying anything, whether it was accepted, or whether there are errors or nothing.. just shows the file name which is correct, and the rest is blank...

[Danielle]

This mod seems to be installed correctly, I'm not getting any errors. But the feed file is empty I have the permissions set to 777 and even that doesn't work

[samad64]

is the "feed" folder set to 777 as well? if the file is writeable but the folder isn't.. it won't generate anything (pretty sure of that, could be wrong though)

[Danielle]

I was just coming to post! I am a dummy lol, somehow I missed uploading the googlefroogle.php file to my main zen directory That file is definitely needed

[samad64]

what is the chmod function used for in this contribution? unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work on my new server since its not running phpsuexec (that i know of).. so it keeps throwing me warnings about chmod. It seems to work properly though.. just curious

[Woodymon]

The feed directory needs to be writable. But if it is left writable then it is easy for a hacker to drop files into the directory.

Toggling on/off the directory permissions whenever you generate the feed manually is not a big deal. But it is if you are constantly updating your product line, and/or creating and uploading the feed via a cron job.

Anyone with recommendations/solutions as to the feed directory permissions issue?

Woody

[Pixxi]

what is the chmod function used for in this contribution? unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work on my new server since its not running phpsuexec (that i know of).. so it keeps throwing me warnings about chmod

You don't need to be running PHPSuExec for the chmod function to work. It's purpose is to set the permissions on the feed *file* to 644 after the file has been written:

*chmod(DIR_FS_CATALOG . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_DIRECTORY . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 0644); 

Maybe if you post the errors you're getting someone may be able to point you in the right direction.