Title: RSS URL error Last modified: September 20, 2018 --- # RSS URL error * Resolved [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * (@bbhank) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/) * This is all I get using any method to link to the site feed(s) URLs: * _“[an error occurred while processing this directive]”_. * Permalinks are enabled. * Whenever the RSS button is clicked the browsers try to download an XML file ( with no extension) but will not open feed page. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Wurpe Hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wurpe/) * (@wurpe) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10709053) * Hi, would you mind posting the link here? Also, have you tried testing with all plugins disabled? * Thread Starter [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * (@bbhank) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10709117) * Yes. That was one of the first things. Tried with various browsers. Swapped themes, too. All the same. * bowlingquest.com * [Wurpe Hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wurpe/) * (@wurpe) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10709142) * Hi, I’m getting a 403 Permission Denied error when attempting to access your RSS feed. This is something you’ll need to investigate with the web server or contact your host about. * Thread Starter [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * (@bbhank) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10709197) * Thank you. * That’s not what I get here. Will look into. * Thread Starter [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * (@bbhank) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10710823) * While searching for solutions I found this. Seems as though I’m not the only one with this problem. * “_I really just want to know how to *set up* an RSS button on my blog. This has been the most challenging thing I have ever encountered in WordPress. There is no basic instruction on this._” — A frustrated user. * So far there still seems to be no instruction set on how to set up and configure RSS on your own site. The videos found are more advertising than help. * I don’t have a “blog”. I want to set this up rss on my website. Need succinct and complete setup instructions. WordPress’ own information is useless. * A lot of feed pages look like this: [https://www.bowl.com/rss/Default.aspx](https://www.bowl.com/rss/Default.aspx). In older versions of WordPress this was the case for my site too. * Upgrades fixed what wasn’t broken and now it is broken! * [Wurpe Hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wurpe/) * (@wurpe) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10710892) * Hi, in the latest WordPress (4.9.8) the RSS feed is located at /feed. Can you verify that you have the `feed.php` file in your `wp-includes` folder? There should also be 6 other PHP files that start with `feed`. * Thread Starter [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * (@bbhank) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10710913) * What should be in the feed folder? That wasn’t on the site. The files you list are in the includes folder. Re-Downloaded WordPress 4.9.8 and it does not include feed folder. That accounts for the feed folder being missing. Its not a part of the install. The browser is looking for something that should be in that folder. There is no information on what that is and/or how to set it up. * [Wurpe Hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wurpe/) * (@wurpe) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10711158) * Hi, I apologize for the confusion, by `/feed` I was referring to the URL (example. com/feed) where you can view the feed. All of the necessary RSS feed PHP files are in the `wp-includes` folder. I’m still getting a 403 error when trying to access your feed. Take a look at your server error log and contact your hosting provider if you need help resolving this. Also, it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at file permissions. The [health check](https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/) plugin is a good resource to use in troubleshooting. * Thread Starter [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * (@bbhank) * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10880166) * [Fix My Feed RSS Repair](http://www.whereyoursolutionis.com/rss-fix/) turned out to be the answer. This plugin was made to fix issues with whitespace in your rss feeds. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘RSS URL error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page/) * [rss error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss-error/) * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [bbhank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbhank/) * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-41/#post-10880166) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics