rss-bridge shows blank page

[rl421403]

I just hear about rss-bridge, so I want to try it out. I uploaded it on web server and tried to access the index.php page, it shows blank page with no errors in logs. Although it does create a whitelist.txt file.

On server, I have Centos 6.5, Apache, PHP 5.3.3 and OpenSSL 1.0 enabled.

I got same output on local PC. Windows, Apache, PHP 5.3.3 and OpenSSL 1.0 enabled.

[rl421403]

Just had some digging to do.

The last perfectly working version for me was commit on Apr 16, 2015. After that things started to change. In next two commits, index.php was loading fine but not the rss feed page. And after merge of pull request #121 on Apr 24, it's not working at all.

[mitsukarenai]

Thanks for your report.
Looking at the changes in the commits since then, I notice this: 0890b52#diff-1258f65d50178d23aa3f9346fda10c01R4

According to PHP doc, the ENT_XML1 flag was added with PHP 5.4, more than 3 years ago. I think there can be some other features and functions that were introduced with PHP 5.4 (and even 5.5 ?). CentOS 7 includes PHP 5.4.16, it should work fine if you can test. Be careful though: PHP 5.4x is reaching end of support next September and shouldn't be deployed anymore.

As for your CentOS 6.5 with PHP 5.3.3... you really should upgrade: the latest in that branch was PHP 5.3.29, it's not supported anymore and many critical security fixes weren't ported to the 5.3 branch.

For the time being, I update the minimal requirement to PHP 5.4, I'm gonna test 5.4.x support on Debian wheezy.

[rl421403]

I was kind of expecting that but was not sure.
I will upgrade our server now and post if I still has these issues. Thanks.

I think I will close this issue now.

[rl421403]

BTW do you know if we can change the number of results. It currently shows 19 tweets, can we get more like 50-100?

[mitsukarenai]

Sadly no, all what Twitter gives us in HTML are 20 tweets. Additional tweets are loaded through AJAX and are therefor unreachable. I should update the bridges though, it gets the "top" tweets instead of the "live" feed, Twitter again changed their query behaviour.

[mitsukarenai]

(rss-bridge tested as working on Debian wheezy, running PHP 5.4.41)