Problem With My RSS Feed

  • Hi;

    For quite some time I’ve been getting errors with my feed. One site that pulls from me keeps notifying me about my rss connection fails. The validator shows this error:
    <<Server returned HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error>>

    How can I restore things back to normal?

    Thanks for your help!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    *Looks*

    Oh yeah, validator is saying 500 error.

    *Adds RSS to FreshRSS*

    That feed added without any problems for me. That’s weird.

    Try disabling all of your plugins and then try to validated the feed. This is a temporary step for troubleshooting and you can re-enabled all of your plugins right after that.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    See if info in this tutorial points in the right direction https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-rss-feed-errors/

    Thread Starter warrentab

    (@warrentab)

    Hello and thank you for your quick replies.

    @jdembowsk: My theme developer TagDiv already tried that; no luck.

    @t-p: I just read that earlier and everything appears to be OK (to my untrained eye).

    FYI: I switched Cloudflare to Developer mode to see if that would help. No such luck.
    (It’s set to resume at 3:52pm ET.)

    That server acts like it is fast enough but may be blocking anything other than a known feed reader or browser (it’s rejecting bots and automated systems).

    Check your robots.txt file and/or ask your host for help.

    Alternatively, you might make use of one of those feed aggregator services or a feed sanitizer…

    Thread Starter warrentab

    (@warrentab)

    @jnashhawkins Thank you for your suggestion. As good as they have mostly been, they havem’t really helped me drill down on this issue. But the robots.txt file sounds like a good place to look.

    What should I be searching for in that file, or add to it?

    For an aggregator, I am using Hootsuite and dlivr.it, but the services are limited. Is there a better solution?

    Finally, what would a sanitizer do for me?

    Thank you again!

    warrentab

    Thread Starter warrentab

    (@warrentab)

    Hi again –

    I tried the feed sanitizer; but since I wasn’t exactly sure how to work with it.
    So I used the url for the sanitized file, but that too got bounced by Pinterest (it did however pass the feed validator test).

    I checked the robots.txt file, and this is what I saw:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

    Please let me know what else I can do to fix this.

    Thank you.

    warrentab

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