RSS and 1.5 Problem

  • I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.5 on one of my sites and since that time, the RSS feeds are not working properly. On 1.2, the url to the feed was https://www.bockes.com/wp-rss2.php. That url hasn’t changed in 1.5 but the feed won’t read. From looking at a couple of other threads I saw where you could add the ?feed to any url to retrieve the feed. However, I’m not keen on having to tell everyone to change the feed url unless I can do a redirect of the old url to the new url. However, seems to me that could potentially create a looping situation. Anyone else have this problem or care. Even if I use the query string to get the feed, the feed doesn’t validate and some readers won’t process it.

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  • For those who have found a solution with this RSS problem, can you help explain to me how to change my RSS feed to point to /wp-rss2.php rather than /feed.

    I am using WordPress 1.5. and pretty much a newbie.
    My url is https://www.citizenofthemonth.com I see this is a fairly common problem, but I don’t really understand some of the answers in the forum.

    Is this (/feed) supposed to be a new type of WordPress feed? Do I need to write something in .htaccess (I did change my permalinks and had to put in an empty .htaccess file to make it work)? I see where I can delete the /feed in the local version of sidebar.php, but where do I make the changes on the remote files?

    Thanks,

    Neil

    Hey

    My feed is still not working. I triede installing the new wp-blog-header that macmanx postede. I triede removing the “feed:” in front of the link.

    The link to the feed is: feed:https://www.hamberg.dk/php/wp/wp-rss2.php

    What to do?? I really wants it to work!

    Thanks!

    Ravn

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Ravn, your feed works fine, but you haven’t removed the feed: from in front of your link yet. That’s why your feed’s link is still feed:https://www.hamberg.dk/php/wp/wp-rss2.php

    To remove it, find whichever part of your template holds your sidebar content, and change:

    <a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a>

    to:

    <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a>

    Thanks for the answer!

    But i already tryede that, i just made it back to the original. I now made it again, but its still not working!

    the new url is: https://www.hamberg.dk/php/wp/wp-rss2.php

    Any other ideers??

    Ravn

    Anyone fix this issue? there is definetly something up with bloglines+wordpress feeds.

    Try to add these lines to your htaccess file (if you can use mod_rewrite):
    RewriteRule ^wp-rss2.php /index.php?feed=rss2 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^wp-commentsrss2.php /index.php?feed=rss2&withcomments=1 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^wp-atom.php /index.php?feed=atom [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^wp-rdf.php /index.php?feed=rdf [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^wp-rss.php /index.php?feed=rss [QSA]

    This works and does not require editing of original WP code.

    macmanx your “wp-blog-header.php” file fixed the feed problem for me, now NetNewsWireLite and Firefox both pick up the feeds okay.

    One question though… it seems that if I use firefox to subscribe to the site feed from a particular “post”, the feed is to that particular post only…not the whole site feed.

    Odd. Is that supposed to happen?

    I have to go to the homepage and then click the Subscribe button to the the generic feed.

    It’s not a bad thing, necessarily…just curious.

    Ok,
    tried the wp-blog-header.php… no change. My page gives the post rss just fine – but NO comment rss…
    I have the same error I started with…
    ~permalinks on
    ~wp 1.5
    ~installed entity2NCR plugin
    ~tried the .htaccess stuff…
    ~looked for ‘white space’ in the rss files
    ~googled for too long and got this: https://mosquito.www.ads-software.com/view.php?id=903
    ~tried to apply the &ampersand quick fix: https://priyadi.net/archives/2005/02/25/wordpress-15-bugs/
    ~reverted to the original files and have the original problem…
    …
    …
    …

    HELP?
    anyone?

    https://www.griffhome.com/comments/feed/

    I see that others have found a fix… not sure what to do

    tGriff ??

    Uploaded the latest wp-comments-post.php…
    get it here:
    https://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog/wordpress/wp-comments-post.php?rev=1.30&view=log
    Seems to be working just fine…
    got the tip here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=8695#post-52022

    ??
    took me a little to find this ??

    I installed WP 1.5 this morning successfully. I was able to get the podcast enclosure functionality to work. But, when I would click the ‘Entries (RSS)’ link at the bottom of index.php to go to wp-rss2.php I would get a 404 error. I finally found a google link to the following url that gave me the fix:

    https://mosquito.www.ads-software.com/view.php?id=903

    I am using IIS 5.0 and I had to modify wp-blog-header.php. I changed the line

    (false === strpos($_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’], ‘index.php’))

    to

    (false === strpos($_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’], ‘.php’))

    Dropping ‘index’ from the .php extension in the line fixes the problem. There is an issue with the way the path is returned and this produces an incorrect reference that results in a file not found.

    I hope this is of help to someone.

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