Problem with my feed

Still no feed *sniffles*

I put back the old .htaccess file and am still trying to get it, every waking moment as this is bothering me not to have RSS feed option.

This is where is stands now – after my tinkering.

Feedburner will NOT let me edit and save and change the original source feed of my feed to https://1800HART.com/blog/feed/ probably because this feed is invalid. Thus – it keeps the old feedburner original source feed of https://1800hart.com/blog/feedburner_193618/ … But, this feed which gave the 500 error, then gave me the 404 error and now it’s redirecting to my front page for some reason I do not know why.

When you go to my public RSS feed https://feeds.feedburner.com/hbsmc/DoCL you still get that error message
Feed Address: https://feeds.feedburner.com/hbsmc/DoCL
HTTP Error Code: 500
Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: com.burningdoor.rsspp.resource.impl.HttpConnectionException: Error getting URL: 404 - Not Found

I’ve been in contact with the plugin author Steve Smith and he suggested that I just update my permalink structure, but that didn’t work.

Pardon me .. but AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!
(ok I feel better now)

I will not play with it until I hear back from somebody.

I tried to deactivate all plugins, and then reactivate them one at a time. I have left the ol_feedburner plugin DEACTIVATED.

Should not my feed be fixed by now? What could cause wordpress not to create my feed?

ANYBODY THERE? PLEASE!

My .htaccess keeps changing everytime I try to update the permalinks .. to this:

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


This is what it used to be when it worked

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^feed=(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://feeds.feedburner.com/hbsmc/DoCL? [R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [S=56]
RewriteRule ^(archives)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(archives)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(archives)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(archives)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(archives)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(links)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(links)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(links)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(links)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(links)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about-page)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about-page)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about-page)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about-page)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(about-page)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(ask-hart)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(ask-hart)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(ask-hart)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(ask-hart)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(ask-hart)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?pagename=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ https://feeds.feedburner.com/hbsmc/DoCL [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ https://feeds.feedburner.com/hbsmc/DoCL [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^feedburner_193618/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=rss2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?&feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /blog/index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /blog/index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /blog/index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&tb=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&feed=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&paged=$4 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /blog/index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&name=$3&page=$4 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress


WordPress is just not creating my feed. PLEASE advise me how I can fix this? I don’t understand. This should work. My blog should have a feed. I thought someone would have seen this here in the support forums by now. I need help.

So, one step at a time:

Disable the feeburner plugin.
Visit Options -> Permalinks and Save to get the correct (and CURRENT) stuff in .htaccess.

You want the shorter version of Permalinks unless you’d like to break more than just your feed.

So, feedburner plugin gone. Short version of the stanza in .htaccess. Does your feed link work?

In other words, let’s get to a known working situation before worrying about plugins.

Nice to see you HandySolo.

Okay. The feedburner plugin was disabled, and I’ve updated the permalinks. I went to https://1800HART.com/blog/feed/ and received an error. Then I went back into my permalink structure and set the permalinks to the DEFAULT permalink and then updated. When I went to https://1800HART.com/blog/feed/ … it showed me my front page this time, instead of an error.

Via FTP I can see that it overwrote my .htaccess file that I replaced earlier and is as follows now:

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

The plugin is still disabled, and now instead of the error page, I decided to go to my feedburner account and change/edit the SOURCE feed url from:
https://1800HART.com/blog/feedburner_193618/
to:
https://1800HART.com/blog/feed/
and it seemed to saved but – gave me this error message:


The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file.


So I looked at the source feed in the Feedburner account and once again my original feed is inserted back to the old https://1800HART.com/blog/feedburner_193618/ address again.

This is interesting. I can now check validity of https://1800HART.com/blog/

Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 4, column 0: Undefined root element: xhtml:html [help]
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">line 44, column 18: XML parsing error: <unknown>:44:18: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]
if (!document.all&&!document.layers) ^In addition, this feed has an issue that may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing this issue.
Feeds should not be served with the "text/html; charset=UTF-8" media type [help]


I upgraded from version 1.5.2 to version 2.0.5 .. could this be some statement in my header.php file causing all of this?
//
UPDATE EDIT:
going to sleep now // 3am now -6hGMT // back in 6 hrs. Food for thought \\ I converted my blog from v1.5.2 to v2.0.5 via my own instructions HERE

Definitely something wrong with your feed. Using the default Permalinks, your RSS2 feed is: https://1800hart.com/blog/?feed=rss2

If you pop that into a browser and (assuming IE7 or FF2) view source, you’ll see that something’s chopping the feed just as it gets ready to give content for the first post.

What other plugins might you have running that would impact post content? For example, any that might be trying to add ads?

Long story short, this has to be squared away before going back to rasslin’ with the feedburner plugin. ??

HandySolo – You’re the man!

That statement running plugins that would impact post content was the key.

IT turns out that when I updated all my plugins to the latest ones that would work for WP version 2+ .. The new version of Denis de Bernardy’s “Related” plugins included a new plugin that wasn’t on my printout of activated plugins before..

‘Related Entries for Feeds’ .. It must have been in the bundle when I uploaded it and activated it. When I deactivated this plugin my feed came back instantly.

Oh Crap. First Senility they say .. all I have to watch out for now – is my degenerating health!

Thanks for assistance!

Glad you got something going. ??

Mark this thread as [Resolved]?

Thanks .. I am marking this problem as Resolved now!

~wave