Error "There was a problem detecting your feed"
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.
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
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.
I am still waiting to hear something for Indiblogger support... might be I will get reply after Diwali.
go on annshan till then.
The team might be busy in Diwali celebration lighting colours of happiness in the lives of IndiBlogger's 
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.
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.
Just a update that I am using above code for my another website and it detects the feedburner URL without any problem.
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.
- 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)
- 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!
By the way, these fixes are for your blog's template, not the feed. Your feed is fine.
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
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">
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.
That's great Renie- Assiting members in solving the issues related to feed detection. Well done!
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