Atom feeds not working in phpbb
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:35 pm
Recently feeds stopped working on this site. I'm not sure if it was the php 3.3.5 upgrade or the recent server upgrade. Setting URL rewriting off in the ACP control panel fixed the problem.
After the recent upgrade to phpBB 3.2 my feeds generate an error. After some trial and error, I found adding /app.php/feed after the url allows feed access. The rewrite commands in phpBB htaccess are supposed to remove app.php from the URL but there appears to be a disconnect somewhere in the routing. The URL displays correctly in the browser but you get a to many redirects message. Firefox displays: "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."
Chrome displays: "The page isn't working skdavis.net redirected you too many times".
After going through all this trouble I found some posts on phpBB: Board feed stopped working after going from 3.1.10 to 3.2.1 (too many redirects) and .htaccess not working migrate punBB to phpBB
To get your feed icon(s) to work when selected, login to ACP and go to to Server Settings>Enable URLRewriting and select No. Feed icons will work properly but the URL access your phpBB board wide feed will be:
While it is best to disable URLRewriting, adding the following code just before the last </ul> in the navbar_header.html file will place a functioning feed icon in the navbar. The URL will still contain app.php/feed so it's really easier to turn URLRewriting off instead of adding additional code. Additionally this code will not fix the URLs for individual forum feeds if URLRewrites are enabled.
(You must replace your_domain_name in the code below with your domain name)
WordPress uses the same type of Rewrite rule so I tested WordPress permalinks and the URL rewrites work perfectly on the same server running phpBB. A bug has been submitted and confirmed atom feed using http-auth.
Before making changes, consider upgrading. This modification was corrected in phpBB v3.3.0.
After the recent upgrade to phpBB 3.2 my feeds generate an error. After some trial and error, I found adding /app.php/feed after the url allows feed access. The rewrite commands in phpBB htaccess are supposed to remove app.php from the URL but there appears to be a disconnect somewhere in the routing. The URL displays correctly in the browser but you get a to many redirects message. Firefox displays: "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."
Chrome displays: "The page isn't working skdavis.net redirected you too many times".
After going through all this trouble I found some posts on phpBB: Board feed stopped working after going from 3.1.10 to 3.2.1 (too many redirects) and .htaccess not working migrate punBB to phpBB
To get your feed icon(s) to work when selected, login to ACP and go to to Server Settings>Enable URLRewriting and select No. Feed icons will work properly but the URL access your phpBB board wide feed will be:
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http://yourdomainname/app.php/feed(You must replace your_domain_name in the code below with your domain name)
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<!-- IF S_ENABLE_FEEDS and S_ENABLE_FEEDS_OVERALL -->
<li class="rightside" <span><a type="application/rss+xml" class="feed-icon-forum" title="{L_FEED} - {SITENAME}" href="https://your_domain_name/app.php/feed"><i class="icon fa-rss-square fa-fw icon-orange" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="sr-only">{L_FEED}</span></a></li>
<!-- ENDIF -->
I am just a beginner in installing phpbb. I’ll try the smart feed extension.