I found out my news feed was not working for my WordPress blog news.smartlabsoftware.com.
The feed is supposed to be directed to feedburner. The feedburner feed worked fine. But…
I typed in the feed path: news.smartlabsoftware.com/feed/ and whoa! A 404 not found.
First I blamed the plug-in. Not that.
After some research, I found out there was no .htaccess file in the blog’s root directory. Nor on my copy on my computer. I copied one from another blog site and the feed started working. I used the generic .htaccess that appears when WordPress is installed. I’m surprised WordPress did not recreate it. I’m on WordPress 2.9.
BTW, a nice feed to subscribe to is the FeedMedic alert. It is at the bottom of your home page for feedburner. It alerts you of any feed problems. Nice.
