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ac4lt

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Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« on: October 08, 2008, 02:26:54 pm »
I'm fairly new to wordpress, but a site I manage is considering moving to wordpress and since we do have a podcast, I was looking at this plugin.

All worked well, except for the podcast feed.

if the url ends with "/feed/podcast/" as the settings page indicates, I get a 404 error from the server. I can access the feed at "/?feed=podcast". I'm guessing I'm missing some needed rewrite rule in my .htaccess file though the other wordpress permalinks are working properly.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

-Linda

Rob Safuto

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2008, 02:32:06 pm »
A link to the actual site would be helpful.

ac4lt

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2008, 02:35:17 pm »
it's under test and doesn't have much of our existing content yet.

http://wp.equalityfairfax.org

http://wp.equalityfairfax.org/feed/podcast/ fails.
http://wp.equalityfairfax.org/?feed=podcast works.



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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2008, 03:33:38 pm »
I just tried it and http://wp.equalityfairfax.org/feed/podcast/ worked for me. Here's a sample of the code:

<!-- podcast_generator="Blubrry Powerpress/0.3.1" -->
   <itunes:summary>The EF podcast serves up interviews with the LGBT community and also recorded audio from major EF events.</itunes:summary>
   <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>

   <itunes:image href="http://wp.equalityfairfax.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/itunes_default.jpg" />
   <itunes:owner>
      <itunes:name>Equality Fairfax</itunes:name>
      <itunes:email>info@equalityfairfax.org</itunes:email>
   </itunes:owner>
   <copyright>Copyright &amp;copy; 2002-2008 Equality Fairfax. All rights reserved.</copyright>

ac4lt

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2008, 03:36:47 pm »
I just tried it and http://wp.equalityfairfax.org/feed/podcast/ worked for me.

After reading your message, I tried again and indeed, it did work. Earlier that was returning a 404. Chalk this one up to one of the mysteries of the universe... but at least it's a mystery with a good outcome.

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2008, 11:33:10 pm »
I am getting the same error as the original user but so far no magical fix has come along :)

I'm still testing things out but I have 2 entries in the feed which you can see here:
http://glark.org/?feed=podcast

But not here:
http://glark.org/feed/podcast/

I have the same settings as the person in this thread with the same situation (WP Audio Player + PP):
http://forum.blubrry.com/index.php?topic=427.0

But I'm still out of luck. I'm not migrating from PodPress, I'm working fresh from PP.

Any thoughts? Thanks!
« Last Edit: November 30, 2008, 04:25:09 am by Glark »

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2008, 11:59:44 pm »
Can you copy/paste the contents of your .htaccess file? I suspect something is a miss with the mod_rewrite rules.

The FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin is known to make all of the other feeds nested under site.com/feed/ to fail no matter what, so if you happen to have that plugin installed, disabling it will fix this problem.

Glark

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2008, 12:32:56 am »
Thanks for your help! Here's what's in the htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

P.S. I don't use Feedburner.

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2008, 04:45:11 pm »
I'm still doing some additional testing, but it appears to be a problem in Wordpress with certain permalink formats. Once I can confirm this, I'll send along details how to duplicate the bug to the Wordpress folks so they can get it fixed in future versions.

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2008, 04:46:03 pm »
If you don't mind replying to this thread with your permalink format, that would help me out with my testing.

Thanks,
Angelo

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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2008, 05:47:44 pm »
Absolutely.
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Re: Problem with powerpress podcast feed
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2008, 07:57:18 pm »
I just finished my testing, the idea I had what could be the issue was incorrect.

I see that the podcast based URL is now working on your blog: http://glark.org/feed/podcast/ Did you disable any plugins recently?