Hi Allan

Are there any weird characters before the XML prolog that need to be in top of the RSS feed template?

/Jan

Hi Jan, thanks for your reply.  Not sure I follow what you mean though?!  Thanks, Allan

Hi Allan

If you have access to the "Settings" section of Umbraco then go to it and expand the "templates" folder - and go to the RSS template and see if it contains a XML prolog, which should look like this - If anything appears before it you will typically see the above error.

Hope this makes any sense :)

/Jan

ok, so the RSS template is as follows (I think this is the default with the uBlogsy package) - does it look ok?

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/masterpages/uBlogsyBase.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>

<%--NOTE: this file must be kept in this format because the xml declaration must be in the first line.--%>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server"><script type="text/C#" runat="server">
    protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Clear();
        Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
        Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
    }
</script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><umbraco:macro ID="Macro1" runat="server" Alias="uBlogsyRSS" />
</asp:Content>

Hi Allan

Yes, that appears to be correct setup in the template.

Are both your Umbraco installations and versions of uBlogsy identical? I mean are both Umbraco 4.11.10 and uBlogsy 2.1.1.1 ?

What does the code for the uBlogsyRss macro look like?

/Jan

Yes, both sites are the same versions of umbraco and uBlogsy.

The macro is just the standard settings again, as far as I know, and refers to /uBlogsy/uBlogsyRSS.cshtml which is as follows:

@{
    /* RSS FEED */
}  
@using System.Linq
@using System.Xml.Linq
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@using uBlogsy.Common.Extensions
@using uBlogsy.Common.Helpers
@using uBlogsy.BusinessLogic
@{
    // get all posts
    // get tag, category, or author from query string
    var tag = Request.QueryString["tag"];
    var category = Request.QueryString["category"];
    var author = Request.QueryString["author"];
    var searchTerm = Request.QueryString["search"];
    var commenter = Request.QueryString["commenter"];
    
    IEnumerable<DynamicNode> posts = PostService.Instance.GetPosts(Model.Id, tag, category, author, searchTerm, commenter, 0, int.MaxValue); posts = posts.OrderByDescending(x => x.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostDate").Value);
       
    string lastPubDate;
    if (posts.Count() == 0)
    {
        lastPubDate = DateTime.Now.ToString();
    }
    else
    {
        lastPubDate = posts.FirstOrDefault().GetProperty("uBlogsyPostDate").Value;
    }


    
   
    // get landing page
    var landing = DataService.Instance.GetLanding(Model.Id); 

    // get blog url
    string blogUrl = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace("/club-news", string.Empty).Replace("/news", string.Empty).Replace("?category=Coaching%20and%20Training", string.Empty).Replace("?category=Events%20and%20Championships", string.Empty).Replace("?category=Club%20News", string.Empty).Replace("?category=Social", string.Empty).Replace("?category=Awards", string.Empty).Replace("/rss", string.Empty).TrimEnd("/".ToCharArray());
    <rss version="2.0">
        <channel>
            <title>@landing.uBlogsyRssTitle</title>
            <description>@landing.uBlogsyRssDescription</description>
            <copyright>@landing.uBlogsyRssCopyright</copyright>
            @*<image>@landing.uBlogsyRssImage</image>*@
            <link>@blogUrl</link>
            <lastBuildDate>@lastPubDate.FormatDateTime("ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss") GMT</lastBuildDate>
            <pubDate>@lastPubDate.FormatDateTime("ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss") GMT</pubDate>

            @foreach (var p in posts)
            {
                if (!p.IsProtected)
                {
                <item>
                    <title>@p.GetProperty("uBlogsyContentTitle").Value</title>
                    <author>@landing.uBlogsyContactEmail (@p.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostAuthor").Value)</author>
                    <comments>@[email protected]</comments>
                    <description>@p.GetProperty("uBlogsyContentBody").Value.StripHtml().Trim()</description>
                    <link>@[email protected]</link>
                    <guid>@[email protected]</guid>
                    <pubDate>@p.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostDate").Value.FormatDateTime("ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss") GMT</pubDate>
                </item>
                }
            }
        </channel>
    </rss>
}

Hi Allan

Ok, that's really odd...I'm a bit clueless know.

Are both sites running on the same server or different ones? A long shot could be to simply try and republish the entire site by right clicking the "Content" node and select "Republish entire site".

/Jan

Hi Jan

Both sites are on the same server.  When the error arises, the entire site goes down with a 404 error.  The fix is to republish the entire site (as you suggest) but that doesn't prevent the error from recurring again in future.  I'd really like to get to the root cause of this so we can prevent it, rather than have to republish everything each time the site goes down.

Any more ideas?

Thanks
Allan

Hi Allan

Ok then I got one more thing to ask/test :)...so do you have any weird special characters in the one install that fails from time to time? Is there something that could perhaps make the umbraco.config file crash when Umbraco is trying to parse it?

/Jan

Hi Jan

Nothing that I'm aware of, but is there some way to check this in case something weird has crept in somehow?

Thanks
Allan

Hi Allan

I bet there is but I don't know of any tools that can do it though. I would probably see if I could find an online xml parser and then paste the content from the /app_data/umbraco.config file into it. Perhaps try this one http://www.xmlvalidation.com/ - As I have not been using it myself I don't know if it has any quirks though or whether it's reliable or not.

/Jan

OK - that gives me loads of errors - 7619 of them!  Here's the first few lines - is there an external XML schema document I should be checking it against?

Thanks
Allan

Hi Allan

Ok, then that's not the way to go about checking it. I suppose the errors (Which are not displayed in the post btw) are just some minor stuff about wellformedness of the XML document etc.

I don't think you should proceed down that path since it's probably leading to more confusion than solutions.

But I'm afraid I'm all out of ideas about what the issue on that one site can be.

/Jan

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