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Back to Bloglines problems

I got back from a great holiday in Italy on Sunday. Despite there being no snow (which is pretty crucial to snowboarding), we both had a great time and no broken bones this time!

I was informed yesterday by a friend of mine that Bloglines isn’t reading my RSS feeds correctly. Odd, because my RSS reader app is working fine. But doing some digging around on the EE forums it seems that my hosting provider (Dreamhost) doesn’t serve it’s default php files as UTF-8, but in a different format. I’m therefore getting a mismatch on the feeds and Bloglines is unhappy with it.

I’ve tried adding the suggested code to my .htaccess file AddCharset UTF-8 .php but this still isn’t working. It must be something to do with my host as the last entry Bloglines can read is the one just before I changed server.

So, is anyone using Bloglines having the same problem? More importantly, anyone fixed it?

Comments

May be of some use?

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Graham Sanders
Wed 2nd Mar 2005
at 5:14 pm

Thanks Graham but no, no help. The feeds are created by the index file of Expression Engine. They aren’t a separate file.

I seem to have got down to the root of the problem. Bloglines may need to reset my feeds on their system. This kind of makes sense as the last feed date is the day before I moved servers. I’ve emailed them, so hopefully they can sort it out.

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Mark Boulton
Thu 3rd Mar 2005
at 10:07 am

I’m not getting updates from your site in Bloglines either. I remember I had probs with my EE-outputted RSS, did some tweaks, and all was well.

Soon as I remember what I did, I’ll let you know. Want me to email you my RSS template?

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Colly
Fri 11th Mar 2005
at 12:44 am

Yes please Colly! I thought i’d fixed the problem last week when I asked Bloglines to reset my feeds, but it hasn’t actually worked. I’ve posted some questions on the EE forum as it seems a few people have been having problems.

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Mark Boulton
Fri 11th Mar 2005
at 8:22 am

Works now, got here through bloglines only to find out I’ve missed months of great new posts!

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mark
Sun 20th Mar 2005
at 6:40 pm

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