RSS Feed Oddity

ubersoft - February 25, 2008 - 18:57

I have three domains running on my server: Eviscerati.net, Eviscerati.org, and Ubersoft.net.

All three sites are on a shared Drupal installation, and use a shared mysql database. All three use views to generate their RSS feeds. The views they use are almost identical -- the only difference is the taxonomies they include in the feeds themselves.

The important part: all three RSS feeds work. At least, they do for me.

However, while all three RSS feeds appear to be functional, only two of them -- Eviscerati.net and Eviscerati.org -- are actually identified by browsers as having RSS feeds. What I mean is, if you go over to Eviscerati.net or Eviscerati.org in firefox, you'll get the little RSS feed icon in the URL bar. If you go over to Ubersoft.net, you don't. If you go over to Eviscerati.net or Eviscerati.org in MSIE v7, the RSS feed icon on the button bar "lights up" showing that there's a feed you can subscribe to. If you go over to Ubersoft.net, it doesn't.

How can I figure out why Ubersoft.net is not doing that, and how can I fix it? It's very puzzling...

Would this be a question

ubersoft - February 26, 2008 - 14:41

Would this be a question more appropriately asked in another forum? This seemed to be the closest fit, unless its a theme thing.

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sepeck - February 26, 2008 - 16:24

One thing you could do is switch to a core them on the one that is not 'working'. See if you can pick up the feed then. If it can, then it's a theme issue and you can go from there.

I do not recall seeing a lot of questions in this area, so the pool of people who can answer it may be small.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

Hadn't thought of that!

ubersoft - February 26, 2008 - 18:22

I'll try that out tonight. Thanks.

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sepeck - February 26, 2008 - 18:27

Do the whole clear cache thing too. Browser cache (FF really caches hard sometimes) and the db cache just cause :)

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

it's a problem in your theme

bambam - February 26, 2008 - 18:47

it's a problem in your theme header... you need to add, or tell drupal to add, the
<link rel="" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="feed" />

Thank you!

ubersoft - February 27, 2008 - 15:49

That's a huge relief. That's a pretty easy fix.

Thanks again!

 
 

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