Okay I set up a feed, so that I can have the users who visit the site sign up to receive the feed in their email (via MailChimp). I first set up the feed in the control panel of the n13. Then when I tried to set up the feed through mailChimp it stated that I need to check the feed for error because the feed wasn't valid. I went to a validator site and sure enough its giving errors (the feed).

Can you help please? Ive attached a link to the validation check so you can see the errors its giving me.

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://twelvesouthmusic.com/news/rss.php%3Ffeed%3DTwelveSouth_News

The first validation error is easily fixed. Go to Options > System > Timezone: Change this to +0000
To remaining errors are to do with your server. If you view the source of this page

http://twelvesouthmusic.com/news/rss.php?feed=TwelveSouth_News

Notice these lines



Your server is adding \ characters in front of the double quotes. This is a PHP setting called magic_quotes_gpc which needs to be disabled.

See this thread on how to do that.

Once you've disabled it, edit your RSS feed again and remove those \ characters.

You are using version 3.3. I highly recommend upgrading to 3.4 as it contains an important security fix and it will also stop these \ characters being added.

So if I update to 3.4 i wont need to fix the server issue? Because Im not savvy enough to do that.

Correct.

Will the update overwrite any work Ive already done or setting i have on the current system?

How do I install the update?

When you update you won't lose anything. To update view this page

http://code.google.com/p/n-13news/wiki/Upgrading

I tried and that totally messed up my whole system!!!!! I followed the instructions to a T! Now what do I do?

link to "update" (broken or messed up)
http://twelvesouthband.com/news/update

link to admin panel (broken or messed up)
http://twelvesouthband.com/news/admin.php

link to url...Now broken and messed up!
http://twelvesouthband.com/home.php

Edit db.php so that it matches your own database settings.

Now it says....

Unable to prepare: SELECT registrationaccess,registrationallow,commentslength,furlextension,furlenabled,furlprefix,furldirname,spamtime,spammsg,commentmsg,commentapprovemsg,timezone,bannedmsg,catdelimiter,useimgverification,salt,version,scriptpath,sendtodelay,regcomment,commentsnotify,registernotify,emailnotify,unapprovednotify,filetime FROM news30_options WHERE 1
Arguments: