Feed stopped working after upgrading to 2.7

What is your site URL? There might be a whitespace issue with your RSS feed.

I’m having a similar problem with my feed (https://cjcs.com/tib):

Feed Address: https://feeds.feedburner.com/cjcs/TIB

HTTP Error Code: 500

Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

Frustrating as all get-out.

My URL is https://www.zacheverson.com. The feed is https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson, although the original feed is https://zacheverson.com/wp-feed.php.

Thanks!

Do you guys have something special in your configuration (like .htaccess) to send the request for the /wp-feed.php file back to Feedburner? I see that there is a plug-in that can also handle it, so I wonder if the plug-in is not 2.7 compatible?

I think the HTTP 500 error stems from the site going in an endless loop. (Feedburner makes the request to your Web site, gets redirected back to Feedburner, which makes another request to your Web site, etc.) The way it should work is that the User-Agent string for Feedburner should be able to open up the wp-feed.php file without getting redirected, while other users would be redirected to Feedburner.

Here are the contents of my .htaccess file:

# Use PHP5 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
Redirect /feed https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson/
Redirect /feed.xml https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson/
Redirect /atom https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson/
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I’d been able to use FeedBurner without having to use the FeedSmith plugin in the past. I’m using Woo Themes’s Type Based theme. In Dashboard > Typbased Options > General settings, there’s a place for me to add my FeedBurner URL, which I did when I set up my website.

I just installed and activated FeedSmith, however, and added my feed
(https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson) to Settings > FeedBurner.
The problem still exists.

Also, the FeedBurner comments thread for the site (https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEversonComments) works fine though.

Thanks again for your help!

I wonder if you moved the FeedBurner redirects underneath the ‘WordPress’ declarations (after # END WordPress) if it would help at all.

Per the suggestion on another site, I deleted

Redirect /feed https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson/
Redirect /feed.xml https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson/
Redirect /atom https://feeds.feedburner.com/ZachEverson/

That didn’t help either though.

Turns out deleting it did work. I just needed to into my Feedburner account and point the feed to https://www.zacheverson.com/feed/.

As for me, I have none of those fun Redirects to delete in the .htaccess for my site:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /tib/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /tib/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I can’t help but notice that wp-feed.php in 2.6x has:

if (empty($doing_rss)) {
	$doing_rss = 1;
	require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-blog-header.php');
}

do_feed();

While the new one in 2.7 is:

require( './wp-load.php' );
wp_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' ), 301 );

It’s similar with wp-rss2.php as well. Clearly something got missed in the recoding. If this problem is to do with looping, I can’t help but wonder if dropping the condition might be a part of the problem.

Interesting note: if I deactivate the Feedburner plugin, I can get a quick download of my feed ONCE. After that, it just seems to hang like before. I don’t know what exactly is going on, but whatever it is, it’s killin’ me.

I have been having a similar issue with my blog and rss feed.

my blog is https://www.72off.net

anyone have any suggestions for me.

Peace
billy

I finally tracked down the cause of my blow-up. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.1.6, with the “Display related posts in feeds?” option set to ON. Turning the option OFF restored feed functionality. Yay.

I have the same problem as many others, I cannot ping anything since upgrading to 2.7! It only says my rss-feed is not validated?
I ran my site through Feed Validator and it said this:
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Sorry

This feed does not validate.

* line 354, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:578:35: unclosed token [help]

</rss>

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

* line 42, column 0: content:encoded should not contain onclick attribute (21 occurrences) [help]

<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What an honor! The house bible for all creat …

* line 44, column 0: content:encoded should not contain object tag (3 occurrences) [help]

Check it out: <!– Smart Youtube –><span class=”youtube”><object width=”425 …
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Anyone got I clue, I havn’t done anything except upgrading to 2.7 – it worked perfectly before that!

I am having the same problem( Error 500) even when I have not upgraded to wp 2.7

I have got the same problem since 6 days ago. I am using WP 2.6.

My site is https://www.go2wellington.com and the feed is https://www.go2wellington.com/feed/

Any help is much appreciated!

In my case, I shut off related posts in yarpp and the problem went away…