Howdy all,
Ok, I give up. I am having an issue with my outgoing RSS syndication. I actually was getting ready to go live and during testing I came across this problem. I kept getting 404s for most of my RSS feeds.
I have the category mod installed among about 40 others. But here is the behavior that I have noticed...
At the "container" level the link is correct but the feed has no content when I syndicate, only the title is there no "body". Now at the next level down which I made into categories the link is not correctly formed. The RSS link is www.example.com/"category"/node/19/feed where the actual feed should be www.example.com/node/19/feed. It is putting the category in the link for some reason and that doesn't even exist.
Now to really confuse things I just checked the html source and it says node/19/feed in the href for the rss link, no category. So now I am really confused and tired. Not sure how it's getting the category at this point.
Any help would be cool,
Ed
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Something to check
Obviously I can't be sure, but since you mentioned going live soon, I have something you might want to check.
A while back I had a somewhat similar problem. Since you were developing your site, I was wondering if you still had the DEVEL module installed. When I did it caused some problems for non-logged-in users. One of those problems was an empty RSS feed. So if you have the DEVEL module installed you might want to deactivate some of its options.
Who knows, but I figure its worth a shoot.
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Hi MacRonin, I appreciate
Hi MacRonin,
I appreciate the quick response but I don't have that module installed. I forgot to mention that I am running ver 5.1. It certainly is maddening though. Just before I turned in last night I was poking around and low and behold the only things that the RSS is working correctly on are the blogs. Go figure.
I am hoping that one of the Drupal gurus will take pity on me and present me with a solution or at least tell me where I should be looking. I would even be happy to know that I messed something up in the setup just so long as I could get it fixed. I have a feeling due to the 404 errors ,not to mention the lack of that functionality, Both my SEO and VEO is going to suffer.
Thanks Again,
Ed
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Ed, do you get these errors
Ed, do you get these errors with a logged in session?
Drupal's so easy, even I could do it.
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I get the error either way.
I get the error either way. Authenticated or not.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it is either the category module or somehow I screwed up my taxonomy, or I am not setting up my container and categories correctly. But it could be anything at this point.
I messed around a little bit with the different settings for the containers and categories and added some other nodes. I found that it would then start to show content for the pages that had actually work but showed no content. At this point it could be user error setting up the category layout ;-) or there is a problem with the category module (or some module is causing the issue with category mod).
It is working fine in the blog though which is really confusing me.
Right now I am lost but I will take a look at it today.
Ed
In a similar boat here
My RSS feeds dont seem to work either. Nothing comes down when subscribed. I had to disable them until a resolution is found.
Techmate, Are you referring
Techmate, Are you referring to incoming feeds or outgoing feeds?
The problem I am having is with my own feeds, not the aggregator feeds system( incoming ). I am assuming that you mean incoming since I know of no way to turn off the internal website rss feeds. That is to say the ones originating (outgoing) from your own site.
If I am wrong please tell me how you disabled them. I would like to know so that I can shut them off too.
Ed
Im using the views module to
Im using the views module to create selected pages. I believe I had an argument created to create a feed. It placed the feed icon on the bottom of the page. I removed that argument because any of the feeds I set for it, dont seem to work.
Ah, I see now. I am not
Ah, I see now.
I am not using views so I can't take advantage of that.
I have found during my investigations and trial and error (mostly error) that depending on how I "tweak" the category/container setup and the pathauto module settings I am able to get the feeds to kick. BUT, for categories and Containers the static information still doesn't show up.
If I add a "story" to the category then the feed shows the story, but not the static body of the category . This is fine for me as a workaround.
At least I am not getting the 404s anymore which was my major SEO concern.
I believe that there has to be a bug in here somewhere that is why I have requested support with the Category module maintainer. It could be pathauto too but this is the most logical starting place.
Ed
One way to knowfor certain
One way to knowfor certain if it is Category (Taxonomy) is to try temporarilly disabling it. This will leave your tables in place, but allow you to try and narrow down the cause. You could continue disabling modules until you find that errors have disappeared.
Drupal's so easy, even I could do it.
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contrib category vs core taxonomy
Not the same thing. If he is running the contrib category module, I suggest checking the issue queue for category module.
It is worth mentioning, I do not believe that nodes have feeds.
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> Now to really confuse
> Now to really confuse things I just checked the html source and it says node/19/feed in the href for the rss link, no category. So now I am
> really confused and tired. Not sure how it's getting the category at this point.
This is no point for confusing. It is just relative link: node/19/feed. Should be absolute: /node/19/feed. Absolute link works well, relatives -- not.
same problem, only for non-authenticated users
I have the same problem, but only for non-authenticated users (like automatic websites and clients, like, well, feedburner...) -- logged in users are fine, not-logged-in-users get a 404. the /rss.xml feed works, but views-generated rss links have this problem. anon access to all views is granted. Help???
Nuclear Option
I trashed the site and rebuilt it from scratch in D6 and couldn't be happier; as long as I don't dwell on the lost week of fruitless bug-hunting and time spent re-doing everything. I still have the old site if anyone needs a test case