Something weird appears to be happening. I have a normal news / node feed on the front of my site. While I've been making many custom modules none of these interact with RSS feed service. In fact my modules are just glorified forms, and I've not changed any Drupal settings. Previously if I clicked the little RSS feed icon, it would show me the RSS in the browser -- XML layout. Now, however, no matter what browser I use, the system wants to download the RSS as a file -- with a name of "index.php?q=rss.xml". The contents are correct -- all XML, but I'm not sure what is going on. On the client side I've tested this on several different Ubuntu and Windows XP machines, on different networks (I.e.- home, work, and friends) and tried Firefox and IE browsers -- all same result. The server is IIS, but I've not made any changes there either that would affect recognition of or serving of various file types, etc. Any thoughts on what is going on would be much appreciated. In one sense I guess this doesn't really matter as the URL would be entered into an RSS reader and the RSS file not viewed in a browser anyway. Nonetheless its kind of annoying. Thanks in advance for the help.
By kxerc on
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Just to add more information for anyone who can help, I have gone into the RSS Publishing administrator settings on the Drupal site and tried changing number of items to publish, as well as what to publish, such as title, title plus teaser, and full text. I still have the same issue regardless of what combination I use in these basic settings.
Also, other Drupal sites (such as here) with RSS feeds show up properly. For instance if I click the RSS feed link from the main page of drupal.org, it renders in my browser and is not something that attempts to download, so I'm guessing this is a server issue and/or Drupal setting.
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specifically what version of Drupal is in use ?
any other modules (contrib) that are in use that would affect RSS feeds ?
Are the feeds a site wide problem or only on a specific content type ?
if specific what module is responsible for them ?
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Thanks Very. I'm using Drupal 5.5. I don't think there is a module that would affect the feeds currently running. I've just tested it with my custom modules removed / turned off and no change or improvement to my problem, so I know its not my junk. The non-default modules added are ICME 5.x-1.0 and TinyMCE 5.x-1.9. Other than that, from the core I have following enabled:
Color
Help
Menu
Taxonomy
Upload
All other in the 'Core Optional' are unchecked.
As for what manages this, it just appears to be the standard add to Content. There is very limited RSS management that I can see by going to Administer->Content Management->RSS Publishing.
Thanks for the help.
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I can't speak for Drupal 5.5, It's been a while since my sites ran that version. Speaking of which, you yourself should update your site to avoid being exploited by publicly known exploits that have been fixed in later releases. Drupal.org runs Drupal 5.7
What you have could very well be a bug in 5.5 thats since been fixed.
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Will Try Upgrade
K. Thanks. Will try upgrade. I was holding out for 6.0, but it's gonna be awhile b4 I can rewrite my own modules anyway, so will try the 5.7. Thanks!
Now 5.7
Well. No luck. Upgraded to 5.7, but still same error. I'm guessing it must be a server thing then, unless anyone has thoughts on Drupal causes / suspects.
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could it be a theme thing ?
what theme is in use ? if not a default theme, switch to a default theme and check
after that I'm out of ideas and would venture a guess it is a server side problem based on the information you've given
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Was using Garland, but tried a couple other themes. No dice. Still the problem. Since the update, however, I notice that IE will display an error instead of attempting to download the RSS. The error is such:
Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
Invalid xml declaration.
Line: 7 Character: 7
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
So it really looks like a Drupal issue to me, but maybe not.
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researching your error I find http://drupal.org/node/127738
google may provide more clues using the error message and the word drupal as a search term
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Thanks much! That did the trick. I removed one of the older entries, and everything worked. So, not sure what was going on with that entry, but perhaps the image attachment or special characters. Who knows. It's late. So who cares. At least back I'm back in the game. Thanks!