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1. clb8888
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Crew,

   Thanks in advance for your help with this, it is a blessing. I am starting a new blog, 8 Talents, and am having trouble with the RSS Feed.

   Signs of problem (Links to screenshots included)--->

   1.) I first tried to use the feed in safari and it returned this wonderful error (screenshot):

   Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://8talents.org/blog/?feed=rss2”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

   2.) I tried firefox to see if it would work there. No dice (screenshot).

   3.) Attempted to use Feed Burner with it and received the following error message (screenshot).

   4.) Finally tried to use Feed Validator and was told (screenshot):

   Server returned HTTP error 304

   5. From Feedest:

   Your input does not appear to be pointing to a valid XML file.

   Attempts I made to fix it --->

   1.) I have scoured the forums here to no avail. If I missed an obvious post that addresses this issue please feel free to point me there.

   2.) I tried using a different theme (equivalent of waving a rubber chicken around with fingers crossed, a shot in the dark).

   3.) Installed a new installation of WP under a different directory and it had the same issue.

   The problem was still identical after all three solution attempts.

   I have 2.2 installed, and will be around tonight to quickly respond to any thoughts or comments you would be willing to offer. Again I really appreciate any help you would be willing to offer.

2. ccoupe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Sounds like a classic .htaccess problem. Something isn't right inside or you've got some RSS plugin or redirect plugin that isn't right.

3. clb8888
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Any suggestions on where to go from there?

4. clb8888
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have tried deactivating all plugins and that did not do the trick either.

   I have one redirect setup. If someone goes to http://www.8talents.org it will push them to http://www.8talents.org/blog. I tried removing that and the problem didn't change at all.

5. ccoupe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Any chance you have an .htacesss in the root directory and one in /blog (it's legal and expected for what you're trying to do. And very delicate. Which one did you change with no effect?

   It would help if you posted both of them.

6. clb8888
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   There is not one in my blog folder. There is only one .htaccess file in the root folder. The code in that file is only one line, as follows.

   RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://8talents.org/blog/

   Thanks for your work on this ccoupe.

7. ccoupe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm not up to snuff on mod_alias. Personal opinion (FTW), you need mod_rewrite rules with finer grain control.

   That said, It looks like 'anything' will become http://4talents.org/blog/ and when the browser gets that and tries it, that 'new anything' will match the same the old 'anything' and then you just cycle around until Apache or Safari gets bored and coughs up.

   I'm not an .htaccess expert so this is only a hint and not a solution (I hate .htaccess but what can you do?)

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://8talents.org/blog/$1 [R=301L]]

   It probably won't be any worse than what you have and it'll barf 50x errors or nothing will show up in the browser if I've misspelled or mistyped any single character (or you do).

   Even if that works, it's pretty heavy handed because you'll never be able to have a site at just http://8talents.org until you add some other Rewrite rules.

   Google Apache mod_rewrite documentation unless someone elses chimes in and does it better. Did I mention it's only a hint. If its wrong, I don't want future people trying in desparation..

8. clb8888
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   ccoupe,

   Sorry for the delayed response. I don't actually know if the last advice given would have worked or not, as I didn't try it. Since this blog is in its infancy I went ahead and decided to do a manual installation vs. automatic fantastico installation. Thus, I deleted everything and started over.

   After trying the automatic installation via fantastico and site5's webhosting I was having the same problem.

   I did a manual install and it seems to work great.

   I am not going to mark this as resolved since I am guessing someone down the road will have a similar issue and if anyone wants to weigh in for a solution that would be great. Is this okay?

   ccoupe, thanks again for your time investment.

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