Error "There was a problem detecting your feed"

Milind Mohan Koyande
Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

Hello everyone,

I am getting error while accessing IndiRank of my blog i.e. http://eitwebguru.com "There was a problem detecting your feed!"

Please assist.

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Arti
Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

These two similar topics need some attention as well!

http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=10301

http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=10384

Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

hmm.. Thanks for the reply Arti.. now i am not the only one who is facing this problem. 

I am in contact with indiblogger support and will update as soon as I hear anything from them.

Milind Mohan Koyande
Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

I am still waiting to hear something for Indiblogger support... might be I will get reply after Diwali.

Rumbaho.com
from Hyderabad
12 years ago

go on annshan till then.

Ranjith
from hyderabad
12 years ago

The team might be busy in Diwali celebration lighting colours of happiness in the lives of IndiBlogger's Smile

Renie Ravin
Renie Ravin
from Chennai
12 years ago

Hey Milind,

I checked your feed on the W3C validator, and they say "This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations....".

That could be the problem. One way of troubleshooting this is via this link. This is the SimplePie demo page, which IndiBlogger uses. As of now, SimplePie is unable to find a valid feed.

I'd suggest you experiment with the W3C recommendations and then proceed from there. Please do update the forum as and when you make any progress so other will benefit as well! I'll keep an eye on this thread and help you out whenever I can.

Milind Mohan Koyande
Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

Hello Renie,

Thanks for the reply. I have converted the feed from RSS 2.0 to RSS 1.0 and now the W3C validator validates the RSS properly but still SimplePie ignore or fails to find RSS. 

I have added following in HTML Section also

==

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="eITWebguru RSS Feed" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/eITwebguru" >

==

Please assist.

Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

Just a update that I am using above code for my another website and it detects the feedburner URL without any problem.

Renie Ravin
Renie Ravin
from Chennai
12 years ago

Hey Milind, I may have found out how to get this working. I tested over 40 combinations, so I think I've narrowed it down to the right fixes.

Firstly, could you view source code in Firefox so that I can reference line numbers? Makes it easier.

  1. Please remove line 14. (I know it's already commented out, but one of my test files showed that line to be one of the culprits)
  2. You need to add the closing "/" to all link rel and meta tags in your header. You can see this file to see how. I tested this file in Simplepie and it works fine. Specific line numbers would be 5,6,7,8,13,15,16,55,56 and 57.

Hope this works!

Renie Ravin
from Chennai
12 years ago

By the way, these fixes are for your blog's template, not the feed. Your feed is fine.

Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

Thanks for the reply Renie but I have removed closing "/" for link and meta due to w3 validation errors and in process of removing other errors provided here

So, the problem I am facing is due to "DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional" ?

 

Please assist

Renie Ravin
from Chennai
12 years ago

Yep, that's right! You could try changing it to

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Milind Mohan Koyande
Milind Mohan Koyande
from Kolkata
12 years ago

Thanks Renie, the issue is fixed now and SimplePie able to detect the feed... Now I have to work with w3c validator errors. Wish me luck :P

 

Thanks again for your help and tips.

Ranjith
Ranjith
from hyderabad
12 years ago

That's great Renie- Assiting members in solving the issues related to feed detection. Well done!  Smile


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