CG Feedmaker showing blank feed

[Andrew Prior]

I have a site still at CMS Made Simple 1.5.1 "San Juan"
CGFeedmaker is installed 1.0.3

I have just upgraded another site to 1.66,
CGFeedmaker is installed (1.0.9)

As far as I can tell, the CGfeedmaker configuration is exactly the same in both sites:
{CGFeedMaker action='autodiscovery' feed='news'} in the header,
{CGFeedMaker action='rsslink' feed='news'} in the page body.

But if I click on the RSS icon in the page, I get a blank page.
If I click on the RSS icon in the IE tool bar I get the following page:
"Internet Explorer cannot display this feed," and
XML document must have a top level element.
"Line: 0 Character: 0"

I cannot find any differences, although some articles in the forums seem to suggest CGFeedmaker will only work with pretty urls which I do not have on either site.  

Has there been a change between 1.0.3 and 1.0.9 so that only pretty urls will work, or should I look elsewhere.


(The original rss feed template has the atom rem'd out ie
{* note: if you have not configured pretty urls or mod rewrite, the next line may fail when trying to validate the feed *}
 {* *}
Andrew

[handcoded]

Hi

I'm using the latest version of CMS Made Simple (Fresh Install)
Have installed cgextensions and cgfeedmaker and have experienced the same problems as above and am looking for a cure.

I followed the intructions at http://www.icms.info/website-addons/rss-feed-maker

Help on this would be appreciated as it would appear that this is a common problem. Alternative ways to export an rss feed of my news items would also be good.

Thanks

[handcoded]

Hi

Should have done some more research. I installed pretty url's and hey presto it works perfectly now.

[mvandiermen]

I hope my post here bumps this question to the top of the forum because it is still a problem with the latest module.

I have exactly the same problem as above.
... to make it more confusing one minute it was working and then just decided to stop working and say Internet Explorer cannot display this feed.

[manuel]

Dear all,

I've been experiencing this issue myself.
Please take a look at the URL of your news feed. In my case this was www.mydomain.com/feeds/newsrss
This URL is incorrect, it should read www.mydomain.com/feeds/news.rss

I haven't found the reason for the dot not being present in the URL by default though...

Greetings,
Manuel

[manuel]

I believe this issue may be caused by mod_rewrite...
When disabling mod_rewrite the auto generated URL's are working fine...

I've tried excluding rss feed URL's from mod_rewrite by adding the following to my .htaccess file:
(but oviously i'm not very skilled at this, any help is very much appreciated...)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
I ADDED THE LINES BELOW HERE IN AN ATTEMPT TO STOP MOD_REWRITE FROM CHANGING RSS FEEDS
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

working rss feed (with mod_rewrite): www.mydomain.com/feeds/news.rss

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/.+\/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.rss

and

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/.+\/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(rss)

and

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/.+\/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(rss).*\.

working rss feed (without mod_rewrite): www.mydomain.com/index.php?mact=CGFeedMaker........

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/.+\/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.php?mact=CGFeedMaker.*\.

and

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/.+\/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(php?mact=CGFeedMaker)

and

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/.+\/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(php\?mact\=CGFeedMaker).*\.

Greetings,
Manuel

[haapati]

Hey,

I noticed if I remove from Calguys Feed Maker's Settings the Feed Extension value this start working. For default there is "rss".

With the default value (not work)
www.mydomain.com/feeds/newsrss

Without the default value (works)
www.mydomain.com/feeds/news

And this works as well
www.mydomain.com/feeds/news.rss

[manuel]

Hi Haapati,

removing the extension in the settings works for me too!!
many thanks for posting the solution

Greetings,
Manuel