RSS Link Broken – NONE will work now!

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Nothing ha?

Well, I kind of expected as much. Nothing personal to anyone here, but I can see Yahoo! stinks overall with what they offer.

It seems though that if they are going to offer this WordPress integration, they’d have it so you can fully function with it.

While I’m here, is there anyone that knows a place where I can maybe find a hack to fix this?

Ok, FORGET YAHOO! Holy crap I’m ticked, but that’s another Jerry Springer show (not that I watch that – but I’m about that mad) lol, the thing is I called Yahoo! to ask if “they” could take out the white spaces I DID find in the plugin. There are three lines after the ?> for the custom permalinks plugin. Of course I can’t change that simple thing because of the lack of .htaccess. So I call and ask if “they” can do this for me.

NOPE! They said it is “as is” and that’s the way it is. They cannot change anything for that service and use it or don’t.

What a joke!

So I’m now looking to see if I can find another plugin that works without breaking down my rss. It’s back working for now, but with page numbers in the URL instead of the title as I want. Google loves me harder if I have those title in my URL.

Shoot, I can’t believe they can’t change that one simple thing.

If anyone knows of a plugin or hack to fix this, please post. But at least I narrowed this down (after a month) of what he real issue is.

DON’T USE YAHOO! HOSTING WITH WP FOR THE CUSTOM PERMALINK.

A possible hack? Any thoughts? ANYONE?

See the WP permalinks info below. To be honest, I’m afraid to do it! lol

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# Server Blockage: Your host might have blocked the SERVER_SOFTWARE variable and this will cause WordPress’ .htaccess generation to fail. If you are sure that your server is running Apache, you can force WordPress to believe that your server is running Apache by changing your wp-includes/vars.php file. Follow the steps below to implement these changes.

* Open the wp-includes/vars.php file using the built in file editor in your WordPress Admin panel. To navigate to this panel, login to WordPress, click on “Manage”, then on “Files”, scroll to the bottom and type in wp-includes/vars.php into the text box under the “Other Files” title.
Look for

$is_apache = strstr($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘Apache’) ? 1 : 0;

and replace it with

// $is_apache = strstr($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘Apache’) ? 1 : 0;

* Add a new line under

// $is_apache = strstr($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘Apache’) ? 1 : 0;

and type in

$is_apache = 1;

Wow.

Frankly, I’d just leave Yahoo entirely. Really, I’ve heard nothing but bad things about Yahoo hosting.

What will happen to my blog if I take it somewhere else? For example, will I lose everything?

Yahoo has really disappointed me. I truly wish I never got involved with them.

I got the same problem with my RSS Feeds when I activate freaking “permalinks” Is there an alternative?

What will happen to my blog if I take it somewhere else? For example, will I lose everything?

Nah. Just make sure you have your website files and your database backed up. Lower your TTLs on your domain (if at all possible). If your domain is hosted with Yahoo! AND you purchased it through them, then you will probably need to wait awhile. You will need to contact them about transferring your domain to an actual domain registrar, such as Go Daddy, that way you have control over where you move your site, ever.

So, basically, you need to be able to move your files and database over to a new server and be able to change your nameservers to the new provider.

Best of luck to you!