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Allow .RSS in IIS?

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  • 02-10-2006 3:20pm
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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,519 ✭✭✭✭


    Quick question, folks.

    We're experimenting with RSS here in work, and I've uploaded a .RSS file to a local IIS server to see if I can link to it from an RSS reader.

    Its not working (I get a 404).

    I added .rss to my urlscan.ini, and that hasn't helped.

    Any suggestions?


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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    Odd one, are you using Windows Server 2003? If so, you may need to add the .rss file extension to your accepted MIME types. To do this, open Internet Information Services, get the properties of SERVERNAME (local computer). Click MIME Types, choose New and add for extension type .rss, for MIME Type type: application/rss+xml.


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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,519 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Tried already, Serbian, although I added it as text/xml (from googling, this seems to be the preferred format).

    If I rename the file from news.rss to news.xml, it works fine.

    I'm using IIS 5 on W2K.


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    colm_c
    Registered Users Posts: 2,031 ✭✭✭colm_c


    Generally RSS feeds are .xml (since they are XML and all) and not .rss.

    Have you tried that instead?


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