Title: Fix WordPress RSS feeds
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Fix WordPress RSS feeds

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/)
 * By default wordpress shows these RSS feed links:
    [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/feed/rss2/](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/feed/rss2/)
   [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/feed/rss/](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/feed/rss/)
   [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/feed/atom/](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/feed/atom/)
   etc However, Google looks for RSS feeds named:
    - _rss.xml_ – for an RSS 0.92 or 2.0 feed
    - _index.rdf_ – for an RSS 1.0 feed
    - _atom.xml_ – for an Atom RSS news feed
 * This means that each day when the GoogleBot visits [my Blog](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/),
   it generates many _404 file not found_ errors in my website logs by asking over
   and over again for :
    - [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/rss.xml](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/rss.xml)
    - [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/index.rdf](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/index.rdf)
    - [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/atom.xml](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/atom.xml)
 * After 15 such errors in the last hour I decided to see what I could do to fix
   this so that WordPress would display links to my RSS feeds which would stop GoogleBot
   hassling me with errors….
    How I solved it (with code) is detailed at [http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/2004/07/26/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/](http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/2004/07/26/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/)
   as its too long to post here Hopefully this helps other people reduce 404 errors
   and let Googlebot easily index their RSS feeds

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76149)
 * You could have done it much easier with a rewriterule or two in your .htaccess
   file, to rewrite the google requests to your wp feed urls.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76151)
 * This is a bug in the Googlebot.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76161)
 * >You could have done it much easier with a rewriterule or two in
    > your .htaccess
   file, to rewrite the google requests to your wp feed > urls. That is not the 
   best option. I tried that already and google started to ask for _/blog/feed/rss/
   rss.xml_ _/blog/feed/rss/index.rdf_ _/blog/feed/rss/atom.xml_ etc The trouble
   is that the link _/blog/feed/rss/_ does not tell a browser or other user agent(
   like search engine bots or feed readers) that the file type is xml, instead it
   looks like a directory.
 *  [monkeynotes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monkeynotes/)
 * (@monkeynotes)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76700)
 * I get a 500 server error when I add this to my .htaccess file:
    <files rss.xml
   > ForceType application/x-httpd-php </files> <files rss2.xml> ForceType application/
   x-httpd-php < /files > <files index.rdf> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </
   files> <files atom.xml> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </files>
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76701)
 * Well, Mozilla Firefox has obviously no problem with the RSS feeds provided by
   WordPress… have you already contacted Google?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76702)
 * i thought rss and atom were xml, why then is xml not the correct extention for
   them?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76703)
 * My web host doesn’t support .htaccess file, is there any other way to solve this
   problem?
 *  [warthog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warthog/)
 * (@warthog)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76844)
 * where do I find my wordpress rss file?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-wordpress-rss-feeds/#post-76845)
 * I’m not sure a 2 year old unrelated thread was the best place to start…
 * WordPress finds it for you. Have a look at [WordPress_Feeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds)

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