[SOLVED] To get rss feed to validate out of CGFeedMaker

[postiffm]

I get this from the feed validator:

Feeds should not be served with the "text/html" media type [help]
Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII" [help]

I believe that AddType application/rss+xml .rss

in .htaccess doesn't work to solve the first problem because the .rss file is not static.

So...where/how do I change the Content-Type and encoding in the header to get these warnings to go away? I messed around with the feed's template but I cannot get it right.

[I have no problem with the pretty_url issue because I access the .rss file with the same name that {$feed_url} reports back.]

Thanks,

Matt

[postiffm]

By the way,

http://www.rexswain.com/cgi-bin/httpview.cgi

reports that the http header for my CGFeedMaker rss feed is

Content-Type:·text/html


Some other blogs I looked at:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/channel/carpe-diem/feed/
Content-Type:·text/xml;·charset=UTF-8

http://feeds.feedburner.com/cmsmadesimple/blog
Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheologicallyDriven
Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8

[staartmees]

to solve the problem with Content-Type:·text/html, you have to adapt your .htaccess-file by adding

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AddType application/rss+xml .rss

[postiffm]

Thanks--but it doesn't seem to help.

I already had
AddType application/rss+xml rss
in my .htaccess. I changed it to what you suggested
AddType application/rss+xml .rss
with no change in the text/html content-type returned for that page.

Also, I had already verified with my host that rss was in the server's /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types file:

application/rss+xml rss

Any other ideas?

[postiffm]

I commented out the line that sets the content-type to text/html and have been running my site for a few days with no apparent change in behavior.

[postiffm]

A new version of CGFeedMaker, 1.0.19, solved my problem. In action.default.php it sets the content-type to "text/xml" which is good enough to get the feed to validate properly.