Hi,
This is a GREAT news ticker and it's really easy to just drop in a directory and the demo works right off the bat (normally)... here's the zip file:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/rsstickerajax/
I dropped the unzipped rsstickerajax folder on a friend's server with his webhost and the demo.htm ran perfectly. But when I try to run it on my Abyss server I get this error that comes up on the rendered demo.htm page instead of the ticker feeds:


CNN News: (Fade Effect enabled. Title+date shown)
Error fetching remote RSS feed!
cache_dir = 'cache'; //path to cache directory on your server from this script. Chmod 777! $rss->date_format = 'M d, Y g:i:s A'; //date format of RSS item. See PHP date() function for possible input. // List of RSS URLs $rsslist=array( "CNN" => "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss", "BBC" => "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml", "news.com" => "http://news.com.com/2547-1_3-0-5.xml", "slashdot" => "http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot", "dynamicdrive" => "http://www.dynamicdrive.com/export.php?type=new" ); ////Beginners don't need to configure past here//////////////////// $rssid=$_GET['id']; $rssurl=isset($rsslist[$rssid])? $rsslist[$rssid] : die("Error: Can't find requested RSS in list."); // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // outputRSS_XML()- Outputs the "title", "link", "description", and "pubDate" elements of an RSS feed in XML format // ------------------------------------------------------------------- function outputRSS_XML($url) { global $rss; $cacheseconds=(int) $_GET["cachetime"]; //typecast "cachetime" parameter as integer (0 or greater) $rss->cache_time = $cacheseconds; if ($rs = $rss->get($url)) { echo "\n\n\n"; foreach ($rs['items'] as $item) { echo "\n$item[link]\n\n$item[description]\n$item[pubDate]\n\n\n"; } echo ""; if ($rs['items_count'] <= 0) { echo "
Sorry, no items found in the RSS file :-(
"; } } else { echo "Sorry: It's not possible to reach RSS file $url\n
"; // you will probably hide this message in a live version } } // =============================================================================== outputRSS_XML($rssurl); ?>

Is Abyss not compatible with something? Like the ajax, php or dhtml? I checked the CHMOD of the cache folder and it's set to 777. I turned my firewall off completly and port 80 is forwarded on my Linksys router, so I don't know what else to do.
I would appreciate it if someone else would drop the rsstickerajax folder into thier Abyss server and see if they can run the demo.htm page and let me know if they have the same results and/or a fix.
Thanks for your time,
Alex