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Old 11-22-2016, 05:48 PM
 
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Default Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

In the past I have used feed manager to create a shopping feed for google merchant it created an auto url http://mydomain.com/autofeed.php?XXXXXXXX which is constantly updated anytime a new product is uploaded

I had it set on google merchant to check that url once a week so all new products got updated weekly automatically. simple and easy.

It seems that google stopped allowing this see https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/1219255 specifically "Make sure that the feed URL points directly to your feed file in one of the supported file formats. Note that pointing to an HTML page of your website will cause the processing of your feed to fail."

If any one can please recommend a way to set up an automatic updating system that would create an acceptable file for google see this link supported file formats.

The firetank software help page gives you a couple options, but the directions are really not that clear, to me anyway.

Thanks in advance for any help!
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Old 11-23-2016, 04:10 AM
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Default Re: Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

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The firetank software help page gives you a couple options, but the directions are really not that clear, to me anyway.

What are the directions?

I believe Firetank don't update their modules since a long time ago, so it may be that the module is not compatible with the formats that Google accepts now.
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Old 11-23-2016, 12:25 PM
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Default Re: Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

We can help if you'd like to email us. Feedmanager is pretty customizable and we can help set it up to match your products. Just drop us an email!

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Old 11-24-2016, 12:25 PM
 
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Default Re: Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

figured I would update the solution here as it might help others.
make a rule in .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/feed_(.*)\.txt$ [NC]

it will rewrite mydomain.com/autofeed.php?xxxxxxx

to mydomain.com/feed_xxxxxxx.txt

and this will work for google merchant
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Default Re: Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

That doesn't look complete. Is there a RewriteRule and maybe another RewriteCond? It also appears you are looking for feed_ instead of autofeed.
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Default Re: Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

you are right, my programmer did it for me, and I was not paying attention. this looks like the complete code
# feeds [[[
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/feed_(.*)\.txt$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ autofeed.php\?%1 [L]
</IfModule>
# /feeds ]]]
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Default Re: Firetank Feed Manager - Creating a Google Aprooved File

You can also have firetank's module just simply write to a file on your sever and have a cron to update it frequently too. I thought you were asking something else in your original question.

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