WP-generated RSS feed invalid

  • Resolved remmeh

    (@remmeh)


    17 years, 3 months ago

    hello,

    I just installed WP 2.7, and it appears that the RSS feed generated by wordpress is invalid or otherwise bonkers:

    http://www.thecynicalrealist.com/?feed=rss2

    The feed source looks okay… but bringing up the feed in Firefox, it just looks like a jumble of html. Feedburner also doesn’t recognize it as a valid feed.

    Any help would be appreciated =)

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    1st look at this

    Thread Starter remmeh

    (@remmeh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    samboll:

    Interesting… /?feed=rss2 now redirects me to /feed/. Both of these result in a 404 error in Firefox and to the feed validator.

    Now I’m thoroughly perplexed. How can I get WP to re-generate the RSS?

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    let’s go about this differently
    delete or renmae your present .htaccess
    open notepad and save a blank file
    upload it and rename to .htaccess
    reset permalinks
    admin – settings – permalinks
    should work
    then we can worry about validation

    Thread Starter remmeh

    (@remmeh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    thanks samboll… that seems to have brought back the feed here (i think i changed a permalink setting which screwed it up):

    http://www.thecynicalrealist.com/?feed=rss2

    now validation…

    Thread Starter remmeh

    (@remmeh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    alright, I’ve made sure that my theme isn’t causing it (changed back to the default WP theme and it still doesn’t validate).

    I’ve also disabled all plugins.

    The validator gives me:

    line 1, column 1: Blank line before XML declaration

    I’ve tried tracking down blank lines in wp-rss2.php, wp-config.php, and can’t seem to find anything there. I’ve already ruled out the theme.

    Any ideas?

    Thread Starter remmeh

    (@remmeh)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    btw, my problem was caused by godaddy free hosting, which inserts their own ads into your page. this causes bad things.

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