RSS feed not recognized

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I am running Hugo here, and can see that the RSS field is available in index.xml. In the source code of the page, I see this:

<link rel=alternate href=http://www.acarg.ch/index.xml type=application/rss+xml title=Acarg>

Still, if I navigate to my page and try to auto-detect the RSS feed with Feedbro (the Firefox extension), it says “No feed found!”.

I am using almost the default rss.xml, except that I write the whole post in the <description> (instead of the summary). Still even with the default rss.xml, I was seeing the same behavior.

Am I missing something for the RSS feed to work correctly?

PS: I tried to link to my pages and code, but apparently I am not allowed to link to stuff because I’m a new user -_-.

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Validate your feed here.

I was able to successfully add https://www.acarg.ch/index.xml as a feed using the Feedbro extension for Firefox.

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Right. So it says:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

    line 1, column 442: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

And the docs gives more details:

When rel="self", the href attribute is expected to identify a resource equivalent to the containing element.

It seems to me that it is because href points to http://www.acarg.ch/index.xml, but my Firefox is on the https version: https://www.acarg.ch/index.xml.

Is there a way to have hugo set http or https correctly depending on what is actually loaded?

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What’s the baseURL in your site config?

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http://www.acarg.ch.

But both http and https work… and my Firefox goes to https by default. I assume some users may be on http and some on https.

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You are serving your site from:

https://www.acarg.ch/

So set your baseURL to:

https://www.acarg.ch/
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hmm, I thought I was serving both. But yeah I guess I can point it to https and hope that nobody goes on the http version.

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If you’ve configured your hosting setup properly, requests to http should forward to https. Users should never to be able to access http.

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Ok! Still not working for me, but I guess it’s maybe some caching somewhere. Anyway I fixed the baseURL!

Thanks a lot!

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You should redirect the http: visitors to the secure version. Most browsers frown on http without the s nowadays.

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Sure. But even now that I changed the baseURL to https, when I go to www.acarg.ch (both from Firefox and Brave) and ask Feedbro to find RSS feeds on the tab, it does not find anything.

I need to manually navigate to www.acarg.ch/index.xml, but I think that’s not how it is supposed to be, is it?

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Either Feedly or NetNewsWire loading and discovering RSS correctly on your site hence there is no issue here.

You need to have a look into specification of Feedbro how it is detecting it by default and do (probably through redirect) a solution.

Because of different tools working differently and that they are not working to common standard I always putting this into my redirect file:

/rss	/index.xml
/feed	/index.xml
/atom	/index.xml
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Oh that’s interesting!

What is this redirect file? I haven’t found documentation about it :confused:

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Depend on your hosting
In Netlify it just _redirect file in static folder.