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Bird Feeder Failing for Static .xml file

Padriac
Minted
Posted on Mar 04, '08 at 02:25 am

I have a static xml file: it’s a podcast generated by one of those xml generator programs that is primarily subscribed to via iTunes. The feed is in a folder called “podcast” on the server. In the xml file itself I replaced

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?></code>

with

<?php header("Content-Type:text/xml"); echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?'.">r"; ?>

I also added

AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml .rdf

to the top of my .htaccess file at the root of my server.

And then… nothing. The Feeds pane registers nothing. It doesn’t list the feed as being present and lists no subscribers, ever (I know there are many thousands for a fact).

Anybody have any idea what’s going wrong?

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Mar 04, '08 at 10:27 am

Is that all you’ve added to the feed? None of that is specific to Bird Feeder. That code only prepares the static feed for Bird Feeder. Please see the “Adding Bird Feeder to your Feeds” section of the README.txt.

Also, if this feed is generated by another program, you will need to make these changes to the file every time it is recreated.

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