Feedburner problems with file size

  • Ok, this is a seriously weird one that has got me completely stumped!

    When I enter my feed url (https://www.invisibleinkwebdesigns.com/weblog/feed) into feedburner, it returns an error message saying:

    “Your feed filesize is larger than 512K. You need to reduce its size in order for FeedBurner to process it. Tips for controlling feed file size with Blogger can be found in Tech Tips on FeedBurner Forums, our support site.

    This is utter rubbish. My feed shows a SUMMARY of the last 5 posts.

    It validates perfectly with feed validators and:

    When I check the feed size with web sniffer, it’s a little over 5K!!!

    I wondered whether it was a generic error message, so I changed the url I submitted to Feedburner to:

    https://www.invisibleinkwebdesigns.com/we

    It still came back with the same error message (i.e. feed too big).

    When I entered:

    https://www.invisibkasjdhaskjhesigns.com/weblog

    It came back with:

    “An error occurred connecting to the URL: Error getting URL: 503 – Service Unavailable”

    It seems like quite a few people have had this problem but there don’t seem to be any posted solutions anywhere on forums. There OBVIOUSLY isn’t a problem with the size of my feed, since it’s barely 1/10 of the maximum size.

    Has anyone got any ideas what on Earth might be going wrong?? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Well, the validator is perfectly happy with your feed. Have you tried using https://www.invisibleinkwebdesigns.com/weblog/feed/rss2

    Thread Starter lukeshep

    (@lukeshep)

    Yeah, I know!!!

    Yep, tried the alternative url, everything I can think of. This is REALLY annoying me now.

    Rapidfeeds is perfectly happy with the feed, so I might be forced to use them but I’d really much prefer to use Feedburner to be honest! Grrrr.

    Thanks for the attempt though, very kind of you. Has anyone else got any suggestions? I’ll try anything! Haha.

    Hi,

    Add this code in htaccess of your blog:

    php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
    php_value post_max_size 20M
    php_value max_execution_time 200
    php_value max_input_time 200

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
    php_value post_max_size 20M
    php_value max_execution_time 200
    php_value max_input_time 200

    Tried that. Didn’t work. So far, nothing is working ??

    If anyone is still having trouble with this thing, I finally solved it. It’s the strangest thing.

    First, go to the setting of your syndication feed (under “Reading” options/settings) and make sure that it will only show one post.

    Next, create a new post and publish it. Just a test post so that WordPress will generate a new feed. Once that is done, you can use feed URL with feedburner.

    When feedburner has finally accepted your URL, go back to your wordpress install. Delete the test post. Set the syndication feed number to the value of your choice.

    Rcdiugun’s post fixed the issue for me. I had a cache plugin installed although it was disabled. I think it was causing issues. (It was hyper cache, FYI.)

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