RSS Feed no longer working

A link to the rss in question would be helpful.

Thanks for checking my question, here is the link

My RSS Feed

Happy New Year & thanks to all the WP volunteers.

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I recently upgraded from WP 1.5 to 2.3.1.

Ever since, I’ve been having problems with my RSS 2.00 feed

https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=rss2

which will not validate and this is the response I’m getting:

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Sorry

This feed does not validate.

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line 1, column 0: Undefined root element: br [help]

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line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: junk after document element [help]

<b>Warning</b>: load_template(/homepages/37/d94648496/htdocs/vassan/wp-incl …

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

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Feeds should not be served with the “text/html” media type [help]

Source: https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=rss2

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2. <b>Warning</b>: load_template(/homepages/37/d94648496/htdocs/vassan/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php) [function.load-template]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/homepages/37/d94648496/htdocs/vassan/wp-includes/theme.php</b> on line <b>440</b>
3.
4. <b>Fatal error</b>: load_template() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/homepages/37/d94648496/htdocs/vassan/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in <b>/homepages/37/d94648496/htdocs/vassan/wp-includes/theme.php</b> on line <b>440</b>
5.

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But

when I enter

https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=rss

&

https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=atom

@ the W3C Feed validator service these two do validate!

Appreciate any help that will enable me to correct the RSS 2. Feeds.

I tried to look for files that may be missing @ wp-includes by comparing wp 1.5 to WP 2.3, but it was a bit beyond my limits.

Thanks again.

You can’t validate a feed that doesn’t exist–hence the errors. When I click your RSS2 link, I see PHP errors–the feed doesn’t exist.

Looks like when you upgraded, one of the necessary files somehow got missed. Try uploading wp-includes/feed-rss2.php again.

May also want to check that each directory on your server has the right number of files in it (just in case other files also got dropped).

I’m not sure – as the WP thing is new to me, but it seems I’m having a similar issue – when I click the subscribe button – I get a PCBD error.

https://cardboredbox.com/blog/

the URL for the Feed/Subscription is – feed:https://cardboredbox.com/blog/?feed=rss2

This one is working ad takes you right to the XML page:

https://cardboredbox.com/blog/?feed=rss2

Why is the Subscribe button link adding the FEED in front of the http:…..portion, and which PHP page can I find this code in to change the behavior?

Thanks,

Rich

srasay2, this is unrelated to the thread–it should have been a new thread.

Anyway, it’s like that because whoever wrote your theme wants to bug you. (Somebody’s going to jump on me for saying that, I expect.)

Anyway, open up your theme, open footer.php, and you should find it. Everytime you see something like this:

<a href="feed:<?php bloginfo(.......

Get rid of the feed: part. It’s in there two or three times.

Thanks – I’ll take a look – and as for the thread – I didnt want to start another thread if it was related – I know how much people love to see the same thing over and over on forums…

Thanks again!

Rich

Thanks a lot Adam Brown. I reloaded the feed-Rss2.php file & it seems to have solved my blog’s problem.

But the ” feed validator ” still doesn’t give the feed a 100% clearance, so to speak ??

pl.have a look..

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Congratulations!

This is a valid RSS feed.

Recommendations

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 58, column 1: Missing atom:link with rel=”self” [help]

</channel> ^Source: https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=rss2
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<!– generator=”wordpress/2.3.1″ –>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:content=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/&#8221;
xmlns:wfw=”https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/&#8221;
xmlns:dc=”https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/&#8221;
>

<channel>
<title>????????????? ??????</title>
<link>https://vassan.kollidam.com</link&gt;
<description>??????????????? ??????? ???? ???????? ??? ???????????</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
<generator>https://www.ads-software.com/?v=2.3.1</generator&gt;
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title>??????? 2008</title>
<link>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=118</link&gt;
<comments>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=118#comments</comments&gt;
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>?????</dc:creator>

<category><![CDATA[??????]]></category>

<category><![CDATA[????]]></category>

<category><![CDATA[???????????]]></category>

<category><![CDATA[???????]]></category>

<category><![CDATA[???????]]></category>

<category><![CDATA[??????]]></category>

<guid isPermaLink=”false”>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=118</guid&gt;
<description><![CDATA[<p>????????? ????????? ????????? ???, ??????? ????? ??????? ???????. ????? ????? ?????????? ?????????? ??????, ???? ?????? ?????? ???????????? ???????????? ???? ????????. ?????? ????????, ?????????? ??????? ??????. ??? ????? ????????.</p>

<p>????? ?????? ???????? ???? ???????? ???????????, ???????? ????????? ????????????? ????, ‘????????, ????????? ???????? ????????, ????????? ?????’ ????? ?????? ?????? ???????? ???? ?????????. ?????????? ???? ?????????? ??????? ?????? ???? […]</p>
]]></description>
<wfw:commentRss>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=rss2&p=118</wfw:commentRss&gt;
</item>
<item>
<title>????????? ????????</title>
<link>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=67</link&gt;
<comments>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=67#comments</comments&gt;
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>?????</dc:creator>

<category><![CDATA[??????????]]></category>

<category><![CDATA[?????????]]></category>

<guid isPermaLink=”false”>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?p=67</guid&gt;
<description><![CDATA[
]]></description>
<wfw:commentRss>https://vassan.kollidam.com/?feed=rss2&p=67</wfw:commentRss&gt;
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

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I tried in vain looking for the right file where the < channel > & < / channel > is located but couldn’t figure out. Also, I wasn’t sure if I’m allowed to add the missing atom link manually ( this assuming I understand the f.validator advise correctly)

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Thanks again.