Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[delia]

encoding.


So could this be the issue: ® and any help on how I can fix it.

Will installing The UTF-8 Mods for databases help wit this issue?

That's a really good question that I don't have the answer to and would like to know.

However, if you use the last version, 1.10.2, instead of 1.10.3, you might find the problem goes away.

1.10.2 has a sanitizer in it that makes some of those changes for you. He removed it in his most recent version - why I don't know.

[hardwiredtemplates]

That's a really good question that I don't have the answer to and would like to know.

However, if you use the last version, 1.10.2, instead of 1.10.3, you might find the problem goes away.

1.10.2 has a sanitizer in it that makes some of those changes for you. He removed it in his most recent version - why I don't know.

Delia I think we found our answer. I went to version 1.10.2 and the feed does load.

Still wondering if Adding these mods would have helped.

[RescoCCC]

Delia I think we found our answer. I went to version 1.10.2 and the feed does load.

Still wondering if Adding these mods would have helped.

I didn't, and had no issues with the feed on the two sites where I installed it. But, I used 1.10.2, not .3. I think the removal of the sanitizer in .3 is going to fubar a lot of feeds.

[hardwiredtemplates]

I didn't, and had no issues with the feed on the two sites where I installed it. But, I used 1.10.2, not .3. I think the removal of the sanitizer in .3 is going to fubar a lot of feeds.

You are right 1.10.3 is messing things up. how many products were you able to generate feed for?

Are there limitations on this mod it only seems to work approximately for 2000 products or less any thing above that

Leaving Max products: blank
generates this error code:
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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Anyone successfully uploaded up to 10000 products without this error.

Additionally is this error Hosting service related or mod related


Thank you all

[RescoCCC]

Additionally is this error Hosting service related or mod related

That particular error is almost always a permissions issue.

[hardwiredtemplates]

That particular error is almost always a permissions issue.

My permissions are 755. I am just buzzed about the below error
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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
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I've got 30000 products, is this mod not designed to handle that?
If not then how can I do several .XML feeds - What will go in these boxes

Max Products:
Starting Point:

[buildingblocks]

I don't have that amount of product and haven't encountered that problem, but I do need to make separate feeds.

For now I'm using GMCF version 1.10.2. Google wants media items categorized but not all of my items are media related. I need to make several feeds so everything doesn't get dumped into one google category.

How I make several feeds is using these fields

Included Categories - to include only my store category ID's that I want included in my feed so they will go into the correct google category

when I have the media feed made I use

Excluded Categories - to exclude the category ID's (media)I don't want in the feed and all my other store categories will be included


I adjust a few other settings for each feed

Output File Name
Default Product Category

These are all I adjust for my purposes.

[inovermyhead]

Delia I think we found our answer. I went to version 1.10.2 and the feed does load.

Still wondering if Adding these mods would have helped.

Hi, hardwiredtemplates ... whether or not conversion is really necessary, the Latin 1 to UTF8 does work, I've run it against a localhost test file, and have not found any problems with it so far. It changed the collation for the database, each of the tables, and all the pertinent fields in the tables to utf8_general-ci. Dr Byte has another feather in his cap.

I think the tutorial instructions say to change the collation to utf8_unicode_ci though, and I don't know if that's a killer or not. Also, have no idea if it's really necessary to change the collation, though I get the feeling most people don't. If someone knows, would appreciate the input.

[inovermyhead]

Hello, all! We got into working on this a couple of weeks ago (I know that's late, but ... well ... things happen). So far we've installed and tested against a localhost test company, and mostly the GMCF seems to be working, with one big issue, at least for us.

Trying to run against all products, somewhere along the line the feed chokes and displays

Google Merchant Center Feeder v1.10.2 started 2011/09/24 14:48:11
Feed file - C:/wamp/www/ct139googlebase/feed/google/CT_base_google.xml_products_en.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No
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with no record counts. Looking at the XML, it ends with an item, has an /item> tag, but no </channel> or </rss> tags. Cutting down on the number of records to around 600-800 by limiting the manufacturers included makes it work, and Google seems to like it, the test feed shows Google inserts all the records (with a Google product category warning, of course).

I've read of similar symptoms here, but can't find whether anyone has a solution, or even an indication of what the problem might be. If you can shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated, thanks in advance for any input.

[jxl1]

Installed the new Google Merchant Centre module and after some initial issues (a bit of advice to anyone with Google Base Feeder module - uninstall that before adding this module) it has worked fine. Except that is for one issue.

The feed runs fine but when clicking on the link we encounter the following error 'error on line 14 at column 54: EntityRef: expecting ';''. Now after a fair bit of investigating we found that the brand name S&C was causing the problems. Specifically the s&c characters in the image url was resulting in the xml feed being rejected. For the time being we are having to download the feed amend the '&' using '%26' before manually uploading the feed. As you can imagine that is not viable in the long run.

My question is that we did not encounter this error when running Google Base Feeder so what has changed to cause this issue? And is there a fix for it? Any help would be appreciated.

You can view the generated feed here

http://www.123av.co.uk/feed/google/1...roducts_en.xml

And we're running version 1.3.9h of Zen Cart.