Title: rss disappeared
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# rss disappeared

 *  Resolved [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/)
 * My rss feed, [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/atom/](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/atom/),
   isn’t working.
 * Yesterday, I activated custom permalinks and learned that this may be the problem,
   so I deactivated custom permalinks. No luck. I’m confused and disoriented.
 * Your help is appreciated.

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448277)
 * What was the custom permalink setting that you used? Now I see that you’re not
   using permalinks at all.
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448286)
 * It was Date and Name based.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448290)
 * Your feed is, in fact, here:
    [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=rss2](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=rss2)
 * Or if you prefer Atom for some reason:
    [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=atom](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=atom)
 * Although you do appear to have an issue with extra spacing at the top of the 
   feed, it appears okay beyond that.
 * For the “/feed/whatever” thing to work, you must be using “pretty” permalinks
   of some sort. Your blog does not appear to be using those at all.
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448291)
 * Do you have an .htaccess file? See [this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Fixing_.28.htaccess.29_Generation_Issues)
   on how to set one up so that you can use the “pretty” permalinks–ie the custom
   permalinks.
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448296)
 * I do have an .htaccess file, which reads thusly:
 * # BEGIN WordPress
 * # END WordPress
 * and I am now using custom permalinks in the date-name style. I’m assuming this
   is pretty? I’m not sure how I can identify the extra space at the top of the 
   feed to correct that issue, but I’m still getting an XML Parse Error.
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448300)
 * There should be something between those lines. It probably should look more like:
 * `# BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog1/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
   blog1/index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress  (note that I’m assuming your
   WP files are in the /blog1 directory, which seems to be the case)
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448305)
 * Thanks for that, unfortunately the issue appears to still be unresolved. Is it
   possible that this is a PHP issue rather than permalink?
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448307)
 * It looks like [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/atom](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/atom)
   works now.
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448314)
 * I’m not inclined to disagree, but my rss reader is still giving me an XML Parse
   Error for all of the following
 * [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=rss2](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=rss2)
   
   [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/rss2/](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/rss2/)
   [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/rss/](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/rss/)
   [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/atom](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/feed/atom)
   [http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=atom](http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/?feed=atom)
 * All of the other feeds I subscribe to are fine, so I’m pretty sure its not with
   the reader.
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448325)
 * The problem is that there are blank lines at the beginning of your feed. There
   are also blank lines at the beginning of your normal posts. That leads me to 
   suspect that you have an errant plugin or an odd change in one of your template
   files.
 * Try deactivating your plugins one at a time, reloading your blog and viewing 
   the source after each deactivation to see if the blank lines at the top of post
   have gone away.
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448329)
 * I tried the deactivating the plugins one by one, with no luck. I think its very
   likely a problem with one of the template files. The rss feeds are located in
   the header.php, which reads thusly:
 * <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “[http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”&gt](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”&gt);
   
   <html xmlns=”[http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221](http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221);
   xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”> <head> <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/
   html; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” /> <meta name=”description” content
   =”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> – <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>” /> <meta name
   =”keywords” content=”” /> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php 
   bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” /> <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss
   +xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” /> <link rel=”alternate”
   type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss_url’); ?>” /> <link
   rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘
   atom_url’); ?>” /> <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’);?
   >” /> <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); wp_title(); ?></title> <?php wp_head(); ?
   > </head>
 * <body>
    <div id=”wrap”>
 * <div id=”header”>
    <h1>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
   </h1>
    **<?php bloginfo(‘
   description’); ?>** </div>
 * <img id=”frontphoto” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/img/front.
   jpg” width=”760″ height=”175″ alt=”” />
 * <div id=”leftside”>
 * <?php if ( function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(‘Main Sidebar’)):
   else : ?>
 * <h2 class=”hide”>Main menu:</h2>
    <ul class=”page”> <?php if (is_page()) { $highlight
   = “page_item”; } else {$highlight = “page_item current_page_item”; } ?> <li class
   =”<?php echo $highlight; ?>”>“>Home <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&
   depth=1&title_li=’); ?>
 * <?php endif; ?>
 * </div>
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448336)
 * Is it possible that there are blank lines at the top of wp-blog-header.php?
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448339)
 * Gosh, I’m not sure. This is my wp-blog-header.php:
 * <?php
 * if (! isset($wp_did_header)):
    if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-config.
   php’) ) { if ( strstr( $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], ‘wp-admin’) ) $path = ”; else $path
   = ‘wp-admin/’; die(“There doesn’t seem to be a `wp-config.php` file. I need this
   before we can get started. Need more help? [We got it](http://wordpress.org/docs/faq/#wp-config).
   You can [create a `wp-config.php` file through a web interface](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/{$path}setup-config.php?output_format=md),
   but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create
   the file.”); }
 * $wp_did_header = true;
 * require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-config.php’);
 * wp();
    gzip_compression();
 * require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-loader.php’);
 * endif;
 * ?>
 *  Thread Starter [skybluewaters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skybluewaters/)
 * (@skybluewaters)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448342)
 * Would this be resolved if I changed my theme?
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-disappeared-2/#post-448347)
 * There would be space before the `<?php`
 * What about space in the index.php that sits in your domain’s main directory?

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
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