[OJS 3.1.1.2] RSS WebFeed not valid?

Hi PKP Community,

I am trying to provide an RSS feed for our journal. I have enabled the RSS WebFeed plugin, and I see the atom, rss 1, and rss 2 icons on the web site. For example

http://pac.chem.pitt.edu/index.php/pac/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/atom

I tried to subscribe to this using Vienna, and I get errors that the page seems to be a website and not an rss feed and no feed associated with the page can be detected. Similarly the w3c feed validator

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpac.chem.pitt.edu%2Findex.php%2Fpac%2Fgateway%2Fplugin%2FWebFeedGatewayPlugin%2Fatom

says “It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn’t find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate.”

Did I do something wrong?

Hmm, in your URL (and all other links) forward slash is escaped to %2F and that probably causes the problem.

Hi @sgr,

Your installation is set to require a log-in in order to access that page, so RSS readers and validators aren’t able to access the feed.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Thanks @asmecher! I confirmed that going to

Users and Roles > Site access options

and unchecking the box “Users must be registered and log in to view the journal site.” fixes the issue. A login is still required to view the pdf’s, which seems sane.

Hm. Now the editorial board “just” has to decide which behavior we want…

Thanks again!