Hlep with products feed

General General Questions
1

Hello,





How do I set up a url products feed, so that companies can download my products weekly to list it on they website?



I need to set up a url feed, but I don't how to do it.



Any help with be much appreciated.

Tom

2

Do a Product export and then put the CSV file in a location such as var/my_products.csv. Then tell your clients to access it via http:///var/my_products.csv

3

[quote name='tbirnseth' timestamp='1324692124' post='128379']

Do a Product export and then put the CSV file in a location such as var/my_products.csv. Then tell your clients to access it via http:///var/my_products.csv

[/quote]



Hey,



How do I test it to make sure that it will work?



Because I tried it and I get (You don't have permission to access /store/var/my_products.csv on this server.)

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.





Thanks

Tom

4

You might have to create an .htaccess file in that directory giving permission to get your file.

Contact your hosting provider for how to do this in your envionment.

5

[quote name='tbirnseth' timestamp='1324694498' post='128384']

You might have to create an .htaccess file in that directory giving permission to get your file.

Contact your hosting provider for how to do this in your envionment.

[/quote]



Do I really need them to create it for me, can I create it or its something that my host must do?



Thanks

Tom

6 
Allow from all
7

Hey,



Would this be good to add in the file



Order deny,allow

Deny from all



order allow,deny

allow from all





Thanks

Tom

8

Check your folder permissions, you may also want to create a folder called datafeeds and give it read write access to your web server instead of using /var. You shouldn't get permission problems accessing the file directly if you set them correctly when installing.

9

You should already have a .htaccess file distributed in var. It should look like:


Order deny,allow
Deny from all

order allow,deny
allow from all



change it to read:


Order deny,allow
Deny from all

order allow,deny
allow from all



and you should be fine. Not sure why they want to allow .js and .css files in var, but…

10

[quote name='panag' timestamp='1324722389' post='128396']

Check your folder permissions, you may also want to create a folder called datafeeds and give it read write access to your web server instead of using /var. You shouldn't get permission problems accessing the file directly if you set them correctly when installing.

[/quote]



Thanks guys.



I'm keep you up to date on it.



Tom