Posts feed not working

  • Resolved viajarapie

    (@viajarapie)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, when I try to access my Posts feed I get the following error:

    “Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /feed/ on this server.”

    The Comments feed (/comments/feed/) works well. The second language feeds (/en/feed/ and /en/comments/feed/) also work well.

    I suspect where the problem is: the WP installation lives together with a plain-html website, I’m actually moving contents to the WP installation. In the meantime, my .htaccess still points to the index.html and it will until the WP site is fully operational.

    My domain is viajarapie.info. The WP site can be accessed anywhere but on the home page, for example viajarapie.info/blog.

    The html site already had a “feed” directory (namely, /html/feed/) before I installed WP. I have already removed the xml files that were there and made sure the /html/feed/ directory has rwxrwxr-x permissions but WP doesn’t create any feed and if I try to follow the RSS link that points to viajarapie.info/feed I get the error above.

    As stated, the following links work well:

    viajarapie.info/comments/feed/
    viajarapie.info/en/feed/
    viajarapie.info/en/comments/feed/

    I use Polylang for the multi-language feature.

    It seems clear where the problem is but I don’t know how to solve it. I don’t know how WP manages the feed directories.

    I welcome help, thanks in advance!

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  • I have the same problem. Did you find a solution? I try to fix the problem for an all week and nobody answers my thread.

    Thread Starter viajarapie

    (@viajarapie)

    Sorry, no. I’ve got no feedback here neither any success on my own. Let’s hope someone knows better and can provide help!

    Thanks for your reply. I’m still trying without any success. I hope someone helps us.

    I found a solution for my site.
    I had to make a new category for each language, like category ‘French’ for all posts in that language, ‘English’ for English language, and call the feed for https://www.mydomain/category/french/. And it worked. I hope this can help you.

    Thread Starter viajarapie

    (@viajarapie)

    Good move. I did essentially the same by setting Polylang to use (avoid hiding) the language ID for my default language so now my problem feed was to found in viajarapie.info/es/feed (instead of viajarapie.info/feed) and it worked. It is certainly a conflict with the existing html/feed directory. But I do want to keep hiding the language ID for my default language.

    I had already tried deleting the html/feed directory and the whole WP site stopped working. I’ve now tried renaming it and voilá, everything works, site and all feeds.

    I still don’t know how WP/Polylang deal with feeds and feed directories but there’s an obvious bottom line, don’t keep a physical /feed directory in parallel to your WP installation.

    I’ll set the issue to resolved. Thanks for all the feedback.

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