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Hi
Our GL Blog was working fine on our old server, but we recently had to move the site to a new server. Our blog is at http://www.bestchartsoftware.com/blog/

Everything else seems to be working fine, however, on the Blog Home page we have two Subscribe to RSS feed buttons that link to
http://www.bestchartsoftware.com/blog/backend/geeklog.rss

Before we transferred to the new server, these links worked fine, but now Firefox just seems to show the XML on a PC and a Macintosh, and IE shows a normal list of stories, but there is no Subscribe button at the top of the Browser page.

Can someone please offer a suggestion what we need to do so that the /backend/geeklog.rss file will show the correct page with a Subscribe button in a browser.

Thanks in advance.

Greg.

Hi,

If you need a nice display in Firefox, you can create a new content syndication and choose RDF 1.0 or Atom format
Keep the RSS file for old subscribers and introduce the new feed to your users.

Notes:
Safari display rdf, rss, atom nicely
Internet Explorer do not read but download rdf files and display nicely rss and atom files
Firefox display rdf and atom nicely but not rss
Chrome without an extension do not display but download rdf files and do not display nicely rss and atom files

So a good choice is Atom format

Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

When the feed files are displayed as XML, it's more a problem of the server configuration. Make sure your webserver is sending the correct MIME type information. Something like

If the browser doesn't recognize the presence of an RSS feed, make sure it's added to the site's header. Make sure you have the "Header-link in topic" option activated for those and that your theme has a {feed_url} placeholder in header.thtml.

bye, Dirk