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1. smoothmoniker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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.

2. smoothmoniker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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.

3. smoothmoniker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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

4. fruit veg
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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).

5. nateritter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   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.

6. nateritter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yea, upgrading the db fixes the prob for me with the rewrite.php change as well. You need to do both.

7. fruit veg
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Top notch work nateritter. Mine's working too with the upgrade. Thanks for being the guinea pig :)

8. nateritter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   My pleasure. I figured I know enough about how to back out of it if it were detrimental. Plus, I like experimenting.

   Cheers!

9. smoothmoniker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yes, you need to do version.php, and then update the database.

10. bostonbrat
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    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!

11. driph
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Nice work guys, that was the fix. Thanks for the find!

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