I've tried to track down the 404 issue several times and I haven't been able to find anything. There is no redirect or anything of the sort so the file should just be served straight up.
Now the feed validates! But this does not resolve the issue of the Global Posts Feed widget linking to the broken feed url, nor the need to notify all existing feed subscribers. Any pointers for addressing that are appreciated.
For the record, this issue is occurring on our dev install running WP3.0. Live site feed is still behaving.
I'll be fixing up this with our feed plugins. Problem is calling wp() is intializing wp with a feed query, but with no var attached (anything after the address) wp adds a 404 header.
Responses (18)
Erstwhile founder — 9th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya,
It's loading a feed for me. Screenshot attached.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 9th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
It looks like its Firefox just giving up when it gets an RSS feed and it simply displays the current page you are on rather than giving an error.
Erstwhile founder — 9th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Which version of FF are you using? I was using FF 3.6 when I grabbed that screenshot.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 9th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Something is very odd. Feedburner reports it as a 404 but when you try to validate it then it reports a 404 and then shows the details:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.canalplan.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Frecent-global-posts-feed.php
wget throws the same problem:
wget http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/wp-content/recent-global-posts-feed.php
--23:09:32-- http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/wp-content/recent-global-posts-feed.php
=> `recent-global-posts-feed.php'
Resolving blogs.canalplan.org.uk... 192.168.0.1
Connecting to blogs.canalplan.org.uk|192.168.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
23:09:32 ERROR 404: Not Found.
But looking in the server logs I see things like this:
[08/Jul/2010:14:40:23 +0100] "GET /wp-content/recent-global-posts-feed.php HTTP/1.1" 404 36598 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6"
which would suggest its a wordpress 404 wrapped round the page I think.
The reason FF was acting up was that I'd had Wizz installed but de-activated it but it left the association behind so FF just didn't know what to do.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 9th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
The 404 for the Global Recent Global Posts Feed plugin has been reported before:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/feed-cannot-be-found-or-parsed
I think there this one as well although the poster never got back:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/recent-global-posts-not-working-for-me
Others as well.
Member — 10th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
I was wondering if it was theme related but that suggests it isn't.
Erstwhile founder — 10th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
I've tried to track down the 404 issue several times and I haven't been able to find anything. There is no redirect or anything of the sort so the file should just be served straight up.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 10th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Andrew.
I tried lots of things - I changed the name and moved the file and changed themes and nothing made any difference.
Then I commented out
#wp('feed=rss2');
in the check at the top and it now seems to work perfectly!
Member — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
You can add this ongoing topic to that list:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/recent-global-posts-feed-wont-validate
We're experiencing the same thing with the feed url not being found by validators. Haven't tried Steve's fix yet, but I just found this topic started by montgorp that recommended adding "/feed" to the feed url like so...
http://tripawds.net/wp-content/recent-global-posts-feed.php/feed
Now the feed validates! But this does not resolve the issue of the Global Posts Feed widget linking to the broken feed url, nor the need to notify all existing feed subscribers. Any pointers for addressing that are appreciated.
For the record, this issue is occurring on our dev install running WP3.0. Live site feed is still behaving.
Lead Developer — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
jcnjr - can you confirm that you don't get a 404 if you comment out the wp() line?
http://tripawds.net/wp-content/recent-global-posts-feed.php returns a 404 (along with rss) for me.
I'm pretty sure that's the issue.
Member — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Also for the record, Steve's fix worked to get our feed validating. So that should take care of my widget link concern.
Thanks to all!
Lead Developer — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
I'll be fixing up this with our feed plugins. Problem is calling wp() is intializing wp with a feed query, but with no var attached (anything after the address) wp adds a 404 header.
Lead Developer — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Fixed in 1.0.5.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/recent-global-posts-feed
Thanks for that @steveatty, saved me a bit of time. Sorry this was outstanding so long guys!
Member — 14th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Thanks to everyone for getting this fixed up!
Member — 14th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Aaron - glad to have helped. I can go to bed a happy man now ;-)
As a complete aside the update notifications plugin that comes with the premium plugins never seems to tell me that new versions are available.
Lead Developer — 14th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Yes, it doesn't work for anyone but Andrew apparently. I just got the go ahead to try and fix that up asap.
Member — 27th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Just an FYI, this appears to be a similar issue with the Global Tag Feed plugin on WP 3.0 + BP 1.2.5.2
Lead Developer — 28th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
I've checked Global Tag Feed plugin and couldn't find an issue. Can you give me a link to the feed that 404s?
Become a member