Title: RSS problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # RSS problem * [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/) * total newbie here – who is having real trouble getting my head around some of this I have trawled around for a couple of days trying to figure this out when I click on RSS 2.0 link and comments RSS 2.0 link i get an error “Not Found The requested URL /blog/feed/rss2/ was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. “ if I try and access [http://www.inaminuteago.com/blog/wp-rss2.php](http://www.inaminuteago.com/blog/wp-rss2.php) I can see it after searching the support forums I thought it might be the htaccess file – but I could be wrong because I am not sure about any of this stuff If I ftp to the site I can see a htaccess file in my public_html directory but not one in the ‘blog’ folder If I try to edit it through WordPress interface I get Editing .htaccess Oops, no such file exists! Double check the name and try again, merci. The Question is – do i have to create a htaccess file to solve this problem– if so how? Or am I going off in a wrong direction – I seem to have been mucking about with this blog for weeks (transfering from Typepad) any help out there would be most appreciated – as I say I am a newbie at this Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89923) * Thanks for the quick reply – I tried it but I still get the same error – would the output from the options | permalinks posted here help anyone? * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89924) * sorry to post again – the fact that I had the permalinks working – but not the RSS confuses me no end – and there wasn’t a htaccess file until I created one– so I am still scratching my head… have learnt heaps along the way though * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89925) * just tried it and now i have lost my permalinks … * [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/) * (@beel) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89926) * You have to then copy the new output into the htaccess file. * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89927) * I did – and thats when I lost the perma links and still the same error for rss– do you want to see the output here? I am poking around your blog… * [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/) * (@beel) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89928) * Nah, won’t help. If you put in the suggested structure, hit update and then copied the result into .htaccess and ftp’d it into your blog directory that should be it. * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89929) * yep I did that – but I will try again incase I did something dumb – * [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/) * (@beel) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89930) * I use: /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ and /archives/category * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89933) * yes I just tried it again – with your structure – and it did not work – just to make sure we are not talking at cross purposes (as i am new to this stuff) I am looking at options \permalinks towards the bottom the /archives etc is in a box just above the update permalink structure button – I click that select all the text that is generated paste it inot the htaccess file and ftp it to my blog site am I doing right? * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89934) * yes “RewriteEngine On” and is in the blog directory I have had a lot of problems really – have to go now its knock off time in OZ – what is it over there? will check back in later on tonight and see if you have come up with some magic – I am wondering if I should just start over again … I have had alot of glitches over the past few weeks trying to set this up * Thread Starter [sharonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharonb/) * (@sharonb) * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-89936) * I have just put back the index.php in the permalink – just thought I would try it and permalinks and the RSS now working – so something kicked in but i don’t really know what – would love to know if anyone has any insights that I can understand! thanks Beel for your help something in all that cleaned up the error. * Anonymous * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-90151) * I have had the same problem – rss link gave the 404 error as soon as I enabled permalinks using the ‘/index.php/’ structure for permalinks (i.e. no need for. htaccess file). Permalinks worked fine after that but then the rss link generated the 404 error. I disabled permalinks and the rss feed started to work again. Maybe I have to figure out the .htaccess approach to permalinks in order to get both permalinks and rss working * [carab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carab/) * (@carab) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-90302) * Hi, did everything as supposed, but as soon as I upload .htaccess /(as Ascii) my server tells me: ‘ Forbidden You don’t have permission to access / on this server.’ I use a standart LAMP -System. Blog-dir is root CAn you help? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-90303) * Have you contacted your hosting provider? * [carab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carab/) * (@carab) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/#post-90304) * I am using serveral .htaccess- Files. When I delete the .htaccess file with the lines from options /permalinks, everything is fine. Here my .htaccess: ‘ RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss| rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA] RewriteRule ^index. php/archives/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^index. php/archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name =$1&feed=$2 [QSA] RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name =$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/?([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{ 1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name =$4&page=$5 [QSA] RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([ 0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum =$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA] RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/?([0-9]{4})/([ 0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?year=$1& monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA] RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed. php?feed=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php? feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA] ‘ Is there a conflict with my apache configuration? Or just a bug in those lines Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘RSS problem’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 24 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [carab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carab/) * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem/page/2/#post-90314) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics