RSS – 500 error. Why meee??

  • Hey yall. So far, my switch from MT to WP has been so beautiful, it nearly brings tears to my eyes. Only one thing is slightly depressing me though, and that’s my RSS feed issues. I’ve been lazy to figure it out until now (its been not working for a while), and I don’t know a whole lot about RSS feeds in general (not enough to figure out any type of re-coding besides basic html and css), but I know enough about them to use them and I have others who use mine also (they keep complaining to me!).
    Both
    https://www.amyobsessive.com/feed/rss/ and
    https://www.amyobsessive.com/wp-rss.php will not work (as well as the rss2 ones).
    What gives?
    I get the 500 error, my permalinks work fine, and I’ve pasted the correct code for my .htaccess page (I’ve found that some people have problems related to this part of the equation). After searching and viewing previous posts, I haven’t been able to find a thread that explains enough to me what I can do nor have I found one that has this same problem. (If there is one out there that I’ve missed somehow, feel free to point me to it instead of re-explaining!)

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  • I can reach it by com/wp/wp-rss.php so you might make sure you have wp-feed.php in the directory and your .htaccess file looks something like this:
    RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]

    Thread Starter amyobsessive

    (@amyobsessive)

    That is actually an old installed version that isn’t actually being used from when I wanted to first test out what I thought of WP before I made the switch from MT (and hadn’t yet deleted). Weird that it worked that way. I tried putting the wp-feed.php into that directory and changed the paths for it in my .htaccess, but that didn’t exactly work either (I think because of the version differences). Back to square one ?? Thank you for your reply though!

    Thread Starter amyobsessive

    (@amyobsessive)

    I know “bump” posts are the lamest thing ever, but I swear I’m going insane with this.

    We will need what rewrite rule you are using.

    Thread Starter amyobsessive

    (@amyobsessive)

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]+)?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&p=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)?/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&p=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]+)?/trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&p=$4 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]

    Thread Starter amyobsessive

    (@amyobsessive)

    Is there anything else anyone would need to help me solve this problem?

    The problem with the rewrite rules is that despite the fact they usually work fine as generated, occasionally they don’t and then there are only a few people here who understand them.
    Can you use IRC and get to #wordpress on irc.freenode.net ?
    If you point someone there at this thread, you may get this solved quicker …

    Amy, from what I can tell you are redirecting to wp-feed.php in the root directory, however, it is not there.

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