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[coloccia@sandbox ~]$ head events.ics

is this file in play
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//5.5401//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:c19ab304-1a4d-4933-87e6-115728ae3520
DTSTART:20150312T003000Z
DTEND:20150312T014500Z
DTSTAMP:20140910T163213Z

<?php //define and clean up formats for display
$summary_format = str_replace ( ">", ">", str_replace ( "<", "<", get_option ( 'dbem_ical_description_format' ) ) );
$description_format = str_replace ( ">", ">", str_replace ( "<", "<", get_option ( 'dbem_ical_real_description_format') ) );
$location_format = str_replace ( ">", ">", str_replace ( "<", "<", get_option ( 'dbem_ical_location_format' ) ) );
//figure out limits
$ical_limit = get_option('dbem_ical_limit');
$page_limit = $ical_limit > 50 || !$ical_limit ? 50:$ical_limit; //set a limit of 50 to output at a time, unless overall limit is lower
//get passed on $args and merge with defaults
$args = !empty($args) ? $args:array(); /* @var $args array */
$args = array_merge(array('limit'=>$page_limit, 'page'=>'1', 'owner'=>false, 'orderby'=>'event_start_date', 'scope' => get_option('dbem_ical_scope') ), $args);
$args = apply_filters('em_calendar_template_args',$args);
//get first round of events to show, we'll start adding more via the while loop
$EM_Events = EM_Events::get( $args );
//calendar header
$output = "is this file in play
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//".EM_VERSION."//EN";
echo preg_replace("/([^\r])\n/", "$1\r\n", $output);

Yep, this is the right file.

It is strange, isn’t it?

Thanks again for the ongoing help.

Could this be a wordpress/apache thing?

Both wordpress installs are 4.11, both apache installs are 2.2.15-39.

I’m not using a custom template file, I’m using yours. Show here is the top of /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/templates/templates/ical.php

<?php //define and clean up formats for display
$summary_format = str_replace ( ">", ">", str_replace ( "<", "<", get_option ( 'dbem_ical_description_format' ) ) );
$description_format = str_replace ( ">", ">", str_replace ( "<", "<", get_option ( 'dbem_ical_real_description_format') ) );
$location_format = str_replace ( ">", ">", str_replace ( "<", "<", get_option ( 'dbem_ical_location_format' ) ) );

//figure out limits
$ical_limit = get_option('dbem_ical_limit');
$page_limit = $ical_limit > 50 || !$ical_limit ? 50:$ical_limit; //set a limit of 50 to output at a time, unless overall limit is lower
//get passed on $args and merge with defaults
$args = !empty($args) ? $args:array(); /* @var $args array */
$args = array_merge(array('limit'=>$page_limit, 'page'=>'1', 'owner'=>false, 'orderby'=>'event_start_date', 'scope' => get_option('dbem_ical_scope') ), $args);
$args = apply_filters('em_calendar_template_args',$args);
//get first round of events to show, we'll start adding more via the while loop
$EM_Events = EM_Events::get( $args );

//calendar header
$output = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//".EM_VERSION."//EN";
echo preg_replace("/([^\r])\n/", "$1\r\n", $output);

//loop through events
$count = 0;

I put some time into changing around the regular expression matching and the new line characters but never made any progress. I went back to original code, and that is what you see here.

Thanks for your time and energy thinking about this peculiar issue.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, no, no dice.

I merged the two first lines into one line:
<?php //define and clean up formats for display

I still see the line in the events.ics file.

[coloccia@sandbox ~]$ head events.ics

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//5.5401//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:5e86a465-2eab-421f-bce4-c8eb12162ade
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150308
DTSTAMP:20141029T145613Z
<snip>

Even when I remove the function call to templates/ical.php from em-ical.php and just deliver text using an echo from within em-ical.php I still get a blank line.

Other ideas? Thanks again in advance!