Haven't a clue about RSS details yet, so any suggestions welcome.

I use RSS to feed the titles of new posts in selected boards to another web site. This was working fine in a 10.3 install which was damaged, and I created a clean 10.3.3 install, upgraded the old forum, then restored the messages to the clean install, which is working fine.

I had noticed the RSS feed was dead, but it was low priority, and I dismissed it as a path issue, easily fixed later just be recreating the feed.

I now find that if I use the RSS feeds from any of the old, restored boards, no information is fed to the other site.

However, I have noticed that if I use an RSS feed from a new board, created in the clean install (rather than from a restored board), the RSS feed works perfectly, and the info appears as expected on the other site.

The odd thing I have found is that if I use the RSS reader in Firefox, then ALL the feeds display in full when I click the RSS icon. Both the restored boards and new boards created in the clean install show the expected posts.

E-Blah is therefore sending out usable data, but when provided from a restored thread there seems to be something lacking, and the RSS feed to my other site cannot read and display it, yet is quite happy and works fine when showing the data from new boards which were not part of the restored data.

Is there anything I can try to examine what is being produced by E-Blah's RSS output, so that I could take a look for any differences between the two sources and maybe spot a reason why the new boards feed, but the old ones don't.

I might add that the same thing happens on two separate sites, one being a WordPress blog, so it doesn't seem to be down to one particular RSS reader (unless they use the same as my wiki).

I thought of creating a new board, and moving the restored messages there as a possible fix, but although the title of the new board fed ok, the messages still failed to appear after it, so it would seem to fair to associate the cause to the restored message format in some way, I think.

Have you went to Admin/Rebuild All Boards?

Sorry, yes (the Rebuild option is cowering in fear as it has been used so many times), I didn't bother to mention doing that as it's an essential fallback whenever something odd happens.

You can see the result in real-life on the Blog at http://secretscotland.wordpress.com/

"Recent Forum Posts" shows the error message, while "Discussions Feed" shows the most recent posts correctly. The first comes from a board that was restored into the 'new' forum, while the second comes from a brand new board, created in the 'new' forum install.

You'll see that the urls of these two feeds are both correct, and I even tried swapping the displayed content by manually editing the urls, changing only the Board ids and leaving the rest of the text unaltered. This worked, in as much as it swapped the content displayed beneath the title.

Note
At the bottom of the Blog there is a feed titled "Dummy RSS Test".

This is the same data as "Recent Forum Posts" should be showing, and is provided from the 'old' Forum, which I managed to get working (after creating the 'new' one), but exists at a different url, and I am just keeping for reference at the moment, rather than deleting in case it comes in handy for testing (like this!)

I brought over all the .txt and .view files, all the Board info, then rebuilt.

We are having a similiar problem. I just upgraded our forum to the latest version of eBlah (and then yesterday's latest nightly on top of that), and all of the RSS buttons are linking to an RSS file with no content (the RSS button for the Latest Forum Posts is also linking to page not found as mentioned in another thread).

Apollo, I noticed your RSS is now working at http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/ - is that the one with the fresh new categories?

Hi glen...

The RSS you see at http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/ is RSS being fed IN to the forum, and is not the problem.

My problem was with RSS feeds of the forum threads being fed OUT of the forum, to appear on other sites, such as the log address I gave above.

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I believe I have identified the source of my troubles, and hopefully Justin will confirm my naivety...

The boards I was having a problem with were configure so that only I (Admin) could see or access them, with all Guest and Member options for viewing, reading or anything at all removed.

I edited the board setting to allow general access, and I see the feed is now appearing.

So the question is, has something I haven't noticed been fixed as a result of my repeated attempts to find the problem, or do the access setting for the boards influence the RSS feeds from the forum.

Either way, I'm just pleased to see it has burst back into life

Yes, access permissions can affect the feed.