wp-rss2.php not working

  • Resolved smoothmoniker

    (@smoothmoniker)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    Since the upgrade to 2.5.1, my feeds file is not working.

    wordpress/feed/ will work fine
    wordpress/wp-rss2.php will NOT!

    neither will wp-rss.php, or wp-atom.php

    I’ve disabled all plugins, and am back to a basic install, and still cannot get this to work. I have a feeling this might be related to the premalinks rewrite rules that WP installs. I’m using the .htaccess file as written by wordpress, which is as follows:

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

# END WordPress

    Any ideas, at all, would be very appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter smoothmoniker

    (@smoothmoniker)

    OK, more testing, and this is definitely a problem with the rewrite rules. If I revert to the default permalinks, wordpress/?p=2134 style, then the problem goes away.

    Anyone know how to tweak the default permalink rules so that they still allow for wp-rss2.php to work? This is essential to use external services like feedburner, which won’t accept urls that require php parsing in order to work.

    Thread Starter smoothmoniker

    (@smoothmoniker)

    AHA! Digging through the trac, and discovered that a fix has already been committed. Replace wp-includes/rewrite.php and wp-includes/version.php with the two files listed here:

    https://trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/7843

    Great post – got this exact same problem.

    Updated my files but updating the version.php means that WordPress asks me to rebuild the database. Should I do this?

    I haven’t so far and my feeds are not working as yet via feedburner or Carp (feed parser).

    I tried changing just the rewrite.php file and it didn’t fix the prob for me. I will be the guinea pig for ya. ?? Be back shortly.

    Yea, upgrading the db fixes the prob for me with the rewrite.php change as well. You need to do both.

    Top notch work nateritter. Mine’s working too with the upgrade. Thanks for being the guinea pig ??

    My pleasure. I figured I know enough about how to back out of it if it were detrimental. Plus, I like experimenting.

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter smoothmoniker

    (@smoothmoniker)

    Yes, you need to do version.php, and then update the database.

    Huge Thank You, smoothmoniker. I noticed my feeds weren’t working and after a few minutes of searching, I found this post. Problem solved. THANKS!

    Nice work guys, that was the fix. Thanks for the find!

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