Title: RSS feed not validating Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # RSS feed not validating * [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/) * Hello, * I am fairly new to WordPress and RSS altogether. This is my first blog, although I’ve built a few different sites for myself and others using OScommerce, CRE loaded, etc. * My problem is that my RSS feed stopped working. It was working fine and then I noticed it was returning a 404 when I would try to validate, even though the actual feed is available (check [http://www.fortasse.com/](http://www.fortasse.com/)). * The only things I have changed since the site was built are that: * 1: Originally the 404 behavior was set to default godaddy page (I changed this to the homepage due to problems with my permalinks, you can see my blog post for info). They work fine now and I have tried every combination to see if it makes any difference. * 2: The site was originally setup in WordPress as ‘fortasse.com’ instead of ‘www. fortasse.com.’ * I would appreciate any help possible. Thanks! Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333697) * I tried changing the settings inside of WordPress for ‘WordPress address (URL)’ and ‘Blog address (URL)’ back to http;//fortasse.com instead of [http://www.fortasse.com](http://www.fortasse.com), thinking that may have been the issue, but still no luck. * I decided to wait a few hours and see if it was some kind of problem with the host or Feedburner, and still it is not up. * What confuses me most is that the feed actually exists and does NOT display a 404 when you either click the chiclet on the page or goto [http://fortasse.com/?feed=rss2](http://fortasse.com/?feed=rss2), but someone how the server/site must be sending a 404 to the validator. * I’ve tried different validation sites to see if thats the problem. No luck. * Thread Starter [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333740) * My problem seems to be with the permalink structure. I am running Godaddy and it seems only the default permalink structure will work with my RSS feeds. * The feed link actually goes through, but trying to validate the link with Feedburner returns a 404. * I have read all over and the only solutions I can find talk about modifying the. htaccess file (which you don’t get access to when you let Godaddy install WP) or leaving permalinks at the default setting (which is a bad ‘solution’ anyway). * My thanks to anyone that can help! * Thread Starter [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333752) * I think I figured it out… * The error probably stems from the fact that I changed the default URL from [http://fortasse.com](http://fortasse.com) to [http://www.fortasse.com](http://www.fortasse.com) AND changed the permalinks structure from the default to a custom setting. * Here is the problem: * When I would go to Feedburner to validate my RSS feed, it would state that the RSS could not be found and give me a 404 error. However, if I clicked on the feed link on MY site, I could view the WP generated RSS feed just fine. * So when I would go to Feedburner to add my feed, it would automatically detect [http://fortasse.com/?feed=rss2](http://fortasse.com/?feed=rss2) , and this is the link given on my RSS chiclet. * What I decided to do was add www. to the beginning (ergo [http://www.fortasse.com/?feed=rss2](http://www.fortasse.com/?feed=rss2)) and attempt validation. This time, BINGO and it worked. I don’t know why though. The link on my page still points to [http://fortasse.com/?feed=rss2](http://fortasse.com/?feed=rss2) and I tried this before with no success. * Very odd. I will give it some time to see if it continues to work. * Thread Starter [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333765) * Well it appears the problem is only half fixed. * My primary ‘posts’ feeds validate now, after I changed the URL, but my comments geed still doesn’t validate. Doesn’t matter if I put www. in or not. * See for yourself: [http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffortasse.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Dcomments-rss2](http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffortasse.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Dcomments-rss2) * Thread Starter [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333766) * Back to square one, primary feeds don’t vaidate either!! * Thread Starter [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * (@fortasse) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333853) * I tried changing .htaccess setting to 666 and then trying to apply permalinks structure and then restting .htaccess to 644. Hasn’t worked. I’m at loss. * Anyone? Help? Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘RSS feed not validating’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Feeds](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/feeds/) * [godaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/godaddy/) * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/) * [rss-feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss-feed/) * [validate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validate/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [fortasse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fortasse/) * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-not-validating-3/#post-1333853) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics