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Feed not timely enough? You must not be hungry! ...

2008-07-28T13:09:00.000-05:00

Feed not timely enough? You must not be hungry! You need the eye of the tiger!!! Sorry...must go out and run full speed through the Philadelphia streets now and do one-armed pushups in my cotton workout uniform. Go Rocky!

Also, a feedburner and Firefox recognize the rss f...

2008-07-26T02:21:00.000-05:00

Also, a feedburner and Firefox recognize the rss feed because they follow the redirect before looking for the xml file.

Here is your issue:
When you type in ViewFromTh...

2008-07-26T02:17:00.000-05:00

Here is your issue:
When you type in ViewFromTheCloud.com in the address bar, it redirects you to http://viewfromthecloud.blogspot.com/ and hides the address. This should work fine, except for the fact that there is that extra slash at the end.

The reason this is an issue is the "last post" thing you are talking about looks for the RSS feed from your website. On most blogs the RSS feed is found in 1 of 2 places:
/rss.xml
/feed

The issue is that your redirect is pointing to http://www.viewfromthecloud.blogspot.com/ and the link is looking for /rss.xml or /feed . So in theory, the link is really http://www.viewfromthecloud.blogspot.com//rss.xml
If you try and type that into your browser you will get a 400 error.

Try switching the redirect to http://www.viewfromthecloud.blogspot.com without the slash.

If that doesn't work, you may have to host your own rss.xml file.

A little late to the party as usual but it might h...

2008-07-25T15:58:00.000-05:00

A little late to the party as usual but it might have something to do with which feed people are pickign up. If you are using a meta redirect tag from your old blogspot address, people may still be subscribed to that address' feed which could slow things down. I know that my feed via feedburner takes about 4 hours to show up in my own reader.

maureen - That actually helps to know. Maybe it's ...

2008-07-23T20:47:00.000-05:00

maureen - That actually helps to know. Maybe it's bug with Comment Luv and I'm chasing ghosts here. Even with all the wonderful advice, I never did get it resolved, so after tonight I'm going to give up.

But I still would like to thank everyone who contributed and tried. You all rock!!!

Jeff: Can't help you with the Humor Blogs part, bu...

2008-07-23T20:32:00.000-05:00

Jeff: Can't help you with the Humor Blogs part, but I do know that Comment Luv does not see me either when I use my own domain name... so it's not just you!

I had that same problem when I moved to my own ser...

2008-07-23T06:21:00.000-05:00

I had that same problem when I moved to my own server- but you didn't do that... you just got a new domain.

In my experience it's taken some time for everything to catch up to the new route.

Sorry that wasn't helpful.

Uh, you rock! (Does that help? LOL)

Did you do something recently? Because this post p...

2008-07-22T17:10:00.000-05:00

Did you do something recently? Because this post popped back into my Google Reader today (about 2 hours ago)?

Either that or my blog is stuck. :)

The person who helped me with my RSS feeds, in fac...

2008-07-22T15:22:00.000-05:00

The person who helped me with my RSS feeds, in fact the person who told me that they weren't working at all (then I had to ask him what they were) was Dan of All That Comes With It, but, erm, he's gone out for a walk and may not be back for some time...

Did you set up a CNAME record on your own domain?<...

2008-07-22T09:51:00.000-05:00

Did you set up a CNAME record on your own domain?

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

Your feed autodiscovery is badly configured, you have four feeds set up, here is the HTML code from your header:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="View from the Cloud - Atom" href="http://www.viewfromthecloud.com/feeds/posts/default" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="View from the Cloud - RSS" href="http://www.viewfromthecloud.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="View from the Cloud - Atom" href="http://www.viewfromthecloud.com/feeds/6461360421281947095/comments/default" />
<link href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/ViewFromTheCloud' rel='alternate' title='RSS 2.0' type='application/rss+xml'/>

If you are going to use feedburner, you should remove the references to the internal feeds (and 301 redirect them to the feedburner feeds).

HTH,
JP

Omigod! Are you serious? I'm not loving you enou...

2008-07-22T09:35:00.000-05:00

Omigod! Are you serious? I'm not loving you enough??? Sheesh! Some men are never satisfied!

whereas every other blogger in the world shows ...

2008-07-22T08:28:00.000-05:00
whereas every other blogger in the world shows up right away at Humor-blogs.com, my posts don't show up until about 12 hours later

ahem, just be glad your posts show up at all bucko. Not that Rickey is bitter...

Uh, what's a feed???

2008-07-22T07:49:00.000-05:00
Uh, what's a feed???

OMG I came to this party too late but am Clueless....

2008-07-22T00:27:00.000-05:00
OMG I came to this party too late but am Clueless...looks like a lot of good advice here!

See, this is exactly why I'm sticking with blogspo...

2008-07-22T00:11:00.000-05:00
See, this is exactly why I'm sticking with blogspot, even though I now also have my own domain. Because I am a curmudgeon, a luddite, and this kind of sh*t will happen.

Hey, not sure if you got the help you needed... I ...

2008-07-21T23:01:00.000-05:00
Hey, not sure if you got the help you needed... I use feedburner for my blog's feed. On a former blog of mine, I foolishly changed the feed address and lost my subscribers. What I did was post an announcement informing everyone of my foolish mistake asking them to resubscribe. Just a thought...

eek, wish I could help! :(

2008-07-21T22:48:00.000-05:00
eek, wish I could help! :(

That is what you get for leaving the comfort and s...

2008-07-21T21:39:00.000-05:00
That is what you get for leaving the comfort and security of blogspot. Sorry, I'm no help.

Jeff, I'm having Feed issues too, but not as bad a...

2008-07-21T21:02:00.000-05:00
Jeff, I'm having Feed issues too, but not as bad as yours. I burned a new feed for my new URL, but apparently the old feed is still working? I don't even know. I have no idea how many subscribers I have anymore, the numbers have not changed a bit since the new Feed confusion. I just decided not to worry about it, but I wouldn't mind a solution.

EVERYONE...

Thank you all for chiming in! I...

2008-07-21T20:47:00.000-05:00
EVERYONE...

Thank you all for chiming in! I don't have time tonight to respond to everyone's comments, but I would like to address a few of the technical ones:

geekz: I've actually been on my own domain name for several months now so I don't believe it needs any more time to crawl or propagate. I also don't have the time or guts to move over to Wordpress.

mohit: Thanks for the suggestions, but I've pinged and troubleshootized and resynced a hundred times and it doesn't change anything. Also, my format converted was set as deactivated.

diesel: I do want to thank you for trying to help me with this. You've been very gracious for putting up with my whining.

jaffer: You kind of lost me at step 1. Blogger itself is my hosting provider so I don't actually have a control center (besides Blogger).
Step 2... same issue. I don't think I can navigate to any of my folders on Google/Blogger. At least not that I'm aware of. If I can, I'd love to know how and where they are. So in a nutshell, I'm pretty sure my problems have to be solved within the Blogger or Feedburner platforms.

Your feed is registering just fine..

2008-07-21T20:02:00.000-05:00
Your feed is registering just fine..

Sorry, as much as I'd love for you to be forever i...

2008-07-21T19:37:00.000-05:00
Sorry, as much as I'd love for you to be forever indebted to me, you lost me at "domain name".

You lost me at "RSS". Apparently I'm not a geek. ...

2008-07-21T19:36:00.000-05:00
You lost me at "RSS". Apparently I'm not a geek. DANGIT, I thought I finally fit in somewhere. Maybe I can pull this out? Lets see...advice...I have an idea.

Build a bomb out of a dead cat, and blow up the sonofabitch computer. Thats it. Carry on

Hi Jeff, Kathy sent me here after announcing your ...

2008-07-21T19:25:00.000-05:00
Hi Jeff, Kathy sent me here after announcing your problem on Twitter.
It looks like your domain is doing a permenant redirect from http://... to http://www...

Step 1.
First of all check the settings by logging to the control panel of your website at your hosting provider and see if there are any 301 permenant redirects. If you don't find it, don't worry and go to Step 2.

Step 2.
Navigate to the /www folder on your server and look for a file called .htaccess
It may be hidden from view so make sure you are able to see all hidden .files.
If it does not exist, skip to Step 3.

Edit the .htaccess file and look for the following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^viewfromthecloud.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.viewfromthecloud.com$1 [R=301]

if it exists, delete it.

Step 3.
If the .htaccess file does not exist then you need to create one. Make sure you put the . before the htaccess in the file name.
Add the following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.viewfromthecloud.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://viewfromthecloud.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Save the file. Go to http://www.viewfromthecloud.com/ It should redirect to http://viewfromthecloud.com/

Keeping my fingers crossed hoping all this works !

Over 200 readers a day?

Bastard.

Fix...

2008-07-21T19:23:00.000-05:00
Over 200 readers a day?

Bastard.

Fix yer own damn problem.

;-)

Comments on View from the Cloud: Calling all geeks... Calling all geeks

Feed not timely enough? You must not be hungry! ...

Also, a feedburner and Firefox recognize the rss f...

Here is your issue:When you type in ViewFromTh...

A little late to the party as usual but it might h...

maureen - That actually helps to know. Maybe it's ...

Jeff: Can't help you with the Humor Blogs part, bu...

I had that same problem when I moved to my own ser...

Did you do something recently? Because this post p...

The person who helped me with my RSS feeds, in fac...

Did you set up a CNAME record on your own domain?<...

Omigod! Are you serious? I'm not loving you enou...

whereas every other blogger in the world shows ...

Uh, what's a feed???

OMG I came to this party too late but am Clueless....

See, this is exactly why I'm sticking with blogspo...

Hey, not sure if you got the help you needed... I ...

eek, wish I could help! :(

That is what you get for leaving the comfort and s...

Jeff, I'm having Feed issues too, but not as bad a...

EVERYONE...Thank you all for chiming in! I...

Your feed is registering just fine..

Sorry, as much as I'd love for you to be forever i...

You lost me at "RSS". Apparently I'm not a geek. ...

Hi Jeff, Kathy sent me here after announcing your ...

Over 200 readers a day?Bastard.Fix...

Here is your issue:
When you type in ViewFromTh...

EVERYONE...

Thank you all for chiming in! I...

Over 200 readers a day?

Bastard.

Fix...