Remove RSS

existentialmedia

I maintain a Vanilla 2 forum and I recently found out the RSS feed was using something like 20% of my hosting resources. It is actually putting us way over our usage where we might incur fees. I'm looking for a way to disable or remove the RSS feed. I searched around on here and github, but I didn't see any threads about this.

I found the following in class.discussionscontroller.php, but there are references in other controller files as well.

$this->Title(T('All Discussions')); if ($this->Head) $this->Head->AddRss(Url('/discussions/feed.rss', TRUE), $this->Head->Title());

Can I add something like $Configuration['Vanilla']['AddRSS']['Use'] = FALSE; to my config.php to remove the feed from all views?

Tim

RSS is currently not served any differently than our other content. If you really really want to turn it off, try adding exit(); on line 428 of library/core/class.dispatcher.php:

switch ($Request->OutputFormat()) { case 'rss': exit(); $this->_SyndicationMethod = SYNDICATION_RSS; break;

existentialmedia

Thanks Tim, I'm not really sure why the feed is being an issue like this. Is Vanilla content cached?

Tim

It isn't, no.