# How do I make the RSS links work?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654 "2021-01-29T09:28:14Z")
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### Author: ![peterdalydickson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@peterdalydickson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peterdalydickson)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654/1 "2021-01-29T09:28:14Z")

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I’ve found a reference to the different RSS links for my Discourse site.

But none of them seem to work.

For example, if I put [https://cc-discourse.bluepeg.org/c/good-news-stories.rss](https://cc-discourse.bluepeg.org/c/good-news-stories.rss) into feedly, I get…

> We were not able to find an RSS feed for [https://cc-discourse.bluepeg.org/c/good-news-stories.rss](https://cc-discourse.bluepeg.org/c/good-news-stories.rss).
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> Please contact the website and ask them if they offer a valid RSS feed.

Is there anything I have to configure that I’ve missed?

What am I doing wrong?

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### Author: ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654/2 "2021-01-29T10:25:00Z")

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That looks like it should work for the Good News Stories category.

There is some discussion of RSS elsewhere, eg [Enabling RSS feed on Discourse setup - #8 by codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-rss-feed-on-discourse-setup/55647/8)

On my forum I’m sure it just worked without changing any settings.

Have you tried [W3C Feed Validation Service, for Atom and RSS](https://validator.w3.org/feed/) ?

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### Author: ![peterdalydickson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@peterdalydickson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peterdalydickson)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654/3 "2021-01-29T12:29:42Z")

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Thanks @Jonathan5.

> Have you tried [W3C Feed Validation Service, for Atom and RSS](https://validator.w3.org/feed/) ?

I get a similar message.

> 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.

Any advice on how to troubleshoot, as I appear to be doing what’s explained at [Enabling RSS feed on Discourse setup - #8 by codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-rss-feed-on-discourse-setup/55647/8)?

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### Author: ![Krischan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/krischan/32/47290_2.png) [@Krischan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Krischan)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654/4 "2021-01-29T12:36:40Z")

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Your site is “invite only”. That’s why the feed is not publicly available, I guess. Not sure, if you can provide the appropriate credentials for this somehow …

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### Author: ![peterdalydickson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@peterdalydickson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peterdalydickson)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654/5 "2021-01-29T12:38:24Z")

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🤦‍♂️

Thanks @Krischan 🙏

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-make-the-rss-links-work/177654/6 "2021-02-28T12:38:31Z")

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