Category feeds not fully working with permalinks

  • Resolved olivebarrel

    (@olivebarrel)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    I just realized that some of my category feeds are not working; e.g., this works while this fails. All is well when I disable permalinks. What can I do? See the rest for yourself (on the left sidebar). My .htaccess file is:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /blog/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    I have chosen to use the “Date and name based” permalink structure, with hierarchical categories. In the options I set the WordPress URI to https://olivebarrel.com/wordpress and the blog URI to https://olivebarrel.com/blog

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Thread Starter olivebarrel

    (@olivebarrel)

    Interestingly, the Numeric permalink structure works too, but I want Date & Name based!

    I have no problem accessing your category feeds.

    The categories currently sporting 0 posts are a little clunky (as they list items, but naturally not from that category), but other than that all appears to work as expected.

    Thread Starter olivebarrel

    (@olivebarrel)

    Fascinating… as soon as you said that, I fired up IE to see for myself, and sure enough, it works. It appears we have a Firefox/IE issue. Firefox does not like some of the feeds. Any idea what it could be?

    Thread Starter olivebarrel

    (@olivebarrel)

    It also works in Firefox when you open the feed as an XML file saved by IE. I am using version 1.5.0.9

    edit: All righty, problem solved: the feed itself was invalid, according to the W3C Feed Validator. Firefox choked on an invalid entry (containing relative references). Removing that fixed it. Following standards really does matter!

    Thread Starter olivebarrel

    (@olivebarrel)

    It looks like I spoke too soon. The feed validates fine and works in IE now, but not in Firefox. I think it is because it is caching stale redirects. Can I selectively clear the cache?

    At this point I assume it is a caching issue and the feed is fine, so I went ahead and enabled the Permalink Redirect plug-in. Now I am back to square one: some work and some don’t. Try this one, for example. Why don’t I get the feed?

    The feed validates fine and works in IE now, but not in Firefox

    I have difficulties understanding the statement above. Feeds are NOT supposed to be viewed in any browser! They are for feedreaders.
    Even so, I can access and see your feeds in FF. Where is the problem?

    Thread Starter olivebarrel

    (@olivebarrel)

    I solved the problem by using a different redirection plug-in. Permalink Redirect 0.6.1 appears to be buggy. Phew, what a needless headache!

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