Title: wp-rss2.php not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-rss2.php not working

 *  Resolved [smoothmoniker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoothmoniker/)
 * (@smoothmoniker)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/)
 * Since the upgrade to 2.5.1, my feeds file is not working.
 * wordpress/feed/ will work fine
    wordpress/wp-rss2.php will NOT!
 * neither will wp-rss.php, or wp-atom.php
 * I’ve disabled all plugins, and am back to a basic install, and still cannot get
   this to work. I have a feeling this might be related to the premalinks rewrite
   rules that WP installs. I’m using the .htaccess file as written by wordpress,
   which is as follows:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /WordPress/
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /WordPress/index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * Any ideas, at all, would be very appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [smoothmoniker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoothmoniker/)
 * (@smoothmoniker)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-752915)
 * OK, more testing, and this is definitely a problem with the rewrite rules. If
   I revert to the default permalinks, wordpress/?p=2134 style, then the problem
   goes away.
 * Anyone know how to tweak the default permalink rules so that they still allow
   for wp-rss2.php to work? This is essential to use external services like feedburner,
   which won’t accept urls that require php parsing in order to work.
 *  Thread Starter [smoothmoniker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoothmoniker/)
 * (@smoothmoniker)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-752916)
 * AHA! Digging through the trac, and discovered that a fix has already been committed.
   Replace wp-includes/rewrite.php and wp-includes/version.php with the two files
   listed here:
 * [http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7843](http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7843)
 *  [fruit-veg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruit-veg/)
 * (@fruit-veg)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-752936)
 * Great post – got this exact same problem.
 * Updated my files but updating the version.php means that WordPress asks me to
   rebuild the database. Should I do this?
 * I haven’t so far and my feeds are not working as yet via feedburner or Carp (
   feed parser).
 *  [nateritter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nateritter/)
 * (@nateritter)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753016)
 * I tried changing just the rewrite.php file and it didn’t fix the prob for me.
   I will be the guinea pig for ya. 🙂 Be back shortly.
 *  [nateritter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nateritter/)
 * (@nateritter)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753018)
 * Yea, upgrading the db fixes the prob for me with the rewrite.php change as well.
   You need to do both.
 *  [fruit-veg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruit-veg/)
 * (@fruit-veg)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753024)
 * Top notch work nateritter. Mine’s working too with the upgrade. Thanks for being
   the guinea pig 🙂
 *  [nateritter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nateritter/)
 * (@nateritter)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753025)
 * My pleasure. I figured I know enough about how to back out of it if it were detrimental.
   Plus, I like experimenting.
 * Cheers!
 *  Thread Starter [smoothmoniker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoothmoniker/)
 * (@smoothmoniker)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753104)
 * Yes, you need to do version.php, and then update the database.
 *  [bostonbrat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bostonbrat/)
 * (@bostonbrat)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753177)
 * Huge Thank You, smoothmoniker. I noticed my feeds weren’t working and after a
   few minutes of searching, I found this post. Problem solved. THANKS!
 *  [driph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driph/)
 * (@driph)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-rss2php-not-working/#post-753203)
 * Nice work guys, that was the fix. Thanks for the find!

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