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RSS not working
I’m using this in a line in my side-wide footer: <txp:feed_link flavor="rss" section="notes" label="RSS" />, which seems correct. But I cannot get the feed reader I’m using to find it.
Can someone check my site for me and see if they can pick up the feed? Maybe it’s this reader. Maresee bokoo.
Last edited by Destry (2022-05-16 08:32:08)
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Yes that works fine, Safari shows (screenshot) me that it detects the feed, and my feed reader can used – Vienna-RSS fetched 3 articles.
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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Thank you, Philip. Seems Reeder is shite.
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your rss link in the footer opened up Apple News for me but i didn’t see your articles in their list of news items.
On another note…what a wonderful quirky site you have dear Mr. Wion .
A throwback to a better web!
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bici wrote #333288:
your rss link in the footer opened up Apple News for me but i didn’t see your articles in their list of news items.
I think you first need to register a site for it to appear in their list (?). I never used Apple News as it is not available here to us lesser mortals.
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On an older version of Safari clicking on the RSS link in the footer causes textedit to open an xml file.
I am sure this is not the desired outcome.
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bici wrote #333291:
On an older version of Safari clicking on the RSS link in the footer causes textedit to open an xml file.
I am sure this is not the desired outcome.
But do you have a RSS (feed) reader available on that computer ? If no, then that is a possible actions the OS can take, as TextEdit can handle XML files.
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phiw13 wrote #333292:
But do you have a RSS (feed) reader available on that computer ? If no, then that is a possible actions the OS can take, as TextEdit can handle XML files.
ok thanks. i don’t have a rss reader.
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My problem is that the Reeder app I use for reading feeds from other sites, which works just fine, will not accept the feed link to my site, which makes me think there’s a problem with my feed. But I can’t tell one way or the other.
To add a new feed to read in Reeder, you copy/paste the RSS link into a box, hit “Search”, let the Reeder find the feed and load the posts, et voila.
But, it does not work with my rendered RSS URL.
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Destry I just tried with NetNewsWire and it reports: This site isn’t responding. It may be temporarily down
but your site is viewable as a webapge
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Thanks, bici. I’m baffled, but I’ll keep digging.
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There is something wrong with your server or Textpattern configuration.
The W3C feed validator tells me:
It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn't find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate.I tried the feed reader I have on my phone and that – of course – gives me the same result as NNW. Odd that my default reader (Vienna) accept it. As a possible reason (far fetched, though): I was already subscribing to your feed from a while ago.
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I’ve looked through Admin settings. Everything seems in order.
I’ve looked through .htaccess, blocking out elements trying to see if I can whittle it down to one thing, but nothing changes there.
If I click my feed link, I think I’m supposed to see an xml text file open, but what actually happens is I get a download of the feed file with a random file name and an .rss extension. When I open it, it looks like a regular xml feed file.
All I can think of is this is a web host problem, but I don’t even know what to ask them. They are not very client-needs oriented, in any case. They strike me as the arrogant sysadmin type that don’t know as much as they act. They tried to tell me to use a ‘more well known’ email address (e.g. gmail) when I first joined, because they had never heard of Protonmail before. That was their security check, I guess. And their servers are not green. I want away from these fools.
But this problem seems to have just happened out of the blue. It might have been this way for a while. I don’t know. But it was not always this way with the host.
I notice the same problem with fullpoint.wion.com, too.
If anyone can suggest how I might phrase my question to the host, I’m listening. Other than that I’m out of ideas. I might have to stop supporting RSS, I guess.
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bici wrote #333288:
On another note…what a wonderful quirky site you have dear Mr. Wion .
A throwback to a better web!
Thanks, bic. I’m just aiming for simple, light, privacy-respecting, and quality—whether it’s a throwback, pass forward, or lateral toss.
By this time next year I hope to be hosting and powering it myself from a Blackberry Pi and solar panel. I’m sick of these web host middlemen. I’d like to fold in a small wind turbine later, to help with up-time in the winter season. Part of this means getting the wifman on board with my experiments, though. ;}
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You’ll better check first with your host (telling that feeds are not served correctly and give the URL I gave above)
Otherwise, this may help: github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache/blob/main/dist/.htaccess#L131 but the server-jockeys on the forum can hopefully chime in. It is semi above my pay grade here.
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