Plugin Problem on Linux

Resolved andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

I am using an Amazon linux server, which is becoming more popular. It’s called the EC2 AMI. It works as an instance.. which is probably a virtual box. There a few problems when running this server with the Apple News plugin. It’s the timezone.

1.) WordPress setting shows timezone: New York (Eastern).
2.) Server date and timezone set at: New York (Eastern).

When I POST an article, the timestamp in the JSON for Apple News still shows a time that’s 4 hours ahead.

Then I learned that there’s a “hardware clock” on the linux box.. and that’s set at UTC. Well, I can’t seem to change this setting because I’m using a virtual/instance server.

Does Apple News compile its time using the hardware clock or the server date/time? When I show the time in PHP, it shows the proper server/Wordpress time.

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Plugin Author Bradford Campeau-Laurion
(@potatomaster)

9 years, 6 months ago

We haven’t expressly modified the code that creates the signature since the very first version of the plugin, so we’ll need to correlate recent deploys against anything that could have possibly altered it indirectly.

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

I see a lot of empty fields under the Custom Fields in the editor after publishing an article.

The following fields are BLANK:

apple_news_is_preview
apple_news_pullquote

But this field has a value:

apple_news_pullquote_position – middle

That’s all the fields I see. BUT the one article that did publish correctly and go LIVE has more fields than that.. populated with apple_news data.

Plugin Author Bradford Campeau-Laurion
(@potatomaster)

9 years, 6 months ago

Those fields are not always populated. That’s a red herring.

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

When the app makes the connection to Apple News.. how does it connect? PHP?

Plugin Author Bradford Campeau-Laurion
(@potatomaster)

9 years, 6 months ago

Yes, in PHP.

See: https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/blob/master/includes/apple-push-api/request/class-request.php

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

I’m running SSL.. strictly SSL (redirecting http to https if someone connects to a non-secure connection). Does that matter?

Plugin Author Bradford Campeau-Laurion
(@potatomaster)

9 years, 6 months ago

Nope. This is all on the backend.

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

Well, guess what? I got it working… at least it’s working for now.. here’s what I did.

1) I went back to iCloud.com and clicked on API Key.. then clicked REPLACE Key.. then clicked REPLACE key a second time (because I’ve done this numerous times already)

2) Updated key in APP.

3) Deleted the extra fields in editor and clicked published. The article went LIVE on Apple News.

Plugin Author Bradford Campeau-Laurion
(@potatomaster)

9 years, 6 months ago

Hm, interesting. That shouldn’t be necessary but let me see if that resolves it for the other user that reported it.

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

Even though the articles all show “LIVE” in the Apple News tab.. when I got into iCloud, I only see 1 published article.. and 1 article when I open up iPhone News. This is so weird.

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

All articles now showing up in Apple News! All working now!

Plugin Author Bradford Campeau-Laurion
(@potatomaster)

9 years, 6 months ago

This did solve the issue for the other person that reported it. Marking this closed.

Thread Starter andyhodges
(@andyhodges-1)

9 years, 6 months ago

Everything still working fine on my end! Problem solved!

Thanks for your fast responses!

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