Registering Datafeed Studio Sites

Datafeed Studio strictly binds to the URL you provide, so if you input "http://example.com/" as your URL, this will NOT match users browsing to "http://www.example.com/". To fix this, you may want to add the following lines to the .htaccess file present in the root folder of the application.

# redirect if www.example.com (case-insensitive) to example.com 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC] 
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L] 	

Also be aware that if you install Datafeed Studio in a sub-folder of a domain, .e.g. http://example.com/mystore then you will need to update the RewriteBase rule in the .htaccess file, changing the target from "/" to "/mystore".

Registering Export Sites

An Export Site allows you to export Datafeed Studio categories and products to external systems that support the MetaWeblog API, e.g. Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla.

To enable this the external site must have XML-RPC enabled (for Wordpress this can be found in the Settings->Writing configuration page).

You must provide the URL of the XML-RPC URL endpoint to the external system (for Wordpress this is typically http://example.com/xmlrpc.php) - NOT the main URL that a person would browse to.

You must also supply the username and password required to log into the external site.