RSS feed sometimes appear in place of a post

[AxelTerizaki]

This ticket might be linked to the other one I opened, #13139

When trying to view a post or category, the RSS feed for comments appears in its place. A few F5 key pushes later (or click on the refresh button) and it shows the post again.

This has been reported by a few users of these two blogs:
​http://www.meido-rando.net/
​http://lumiere-horizon.rosalys.net/

Note that there are other wordpress installs on the server hosting these and they are not affected by this bug.

Example screenshot of what happens is attached to this ticket.

[AxelTerizaki]

Screenshots of a bad redirection

[solarissmoke]

I can't reproduce this at all...

I notice that both the example site you've given are running W3 Total Cache, and wonder if that may be linked to the problem (same goes for #13139). Perhaps you could try disabling the plugin and then see whether the problem still exists?

[AxelTerizaki]

Negative, Meido-Rando.net isn't running W3 Total Cache. It's installed but not activated. I disabled it a few weeks ago thinking it might have been the cause... Just to be sure I just deleted it. Note that this bug appeared before I started using total cache.
Lumiere-horizon.rosalys.net is, though, you're right.

I can provide a list of plugins on the two blogs if this can help:

Meido-rando.net:
Advanced Spoiler
Ajax Comment Preview
Akismet
Delicious for Wordpress
Enhanced Links
Google Sitemap Generator
Greg's threaded comment numbering
lightbox-2
minimeta-widget
nextgen-gallery
shockingly simple favicon
smart youtube
twitter tools
wp ajax edit comments

For Lumiere Horizon:
Ajax Calendar
Akismet
Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes
Facebook Commentstng
I Like This
J Post Slider
My Category Order
My Pages Order
Nextgen Gallery
SexyBookmarks
nextgen Imageflow
social web links
topsy
W3 Total Cache
WP Touch iPhone theme
Yet another related posts plugin
Wordpress simple paypal shopping cart

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[ocean90]

AxelTerizaki, can you disable all plugins, set the .htaccess to default values, clear the browser cache and then check it again?
I didn't hear something like that before.

[AxelTerizaki]

If by "default values" you mean the Wordpress block in the .htaccess, there is only that in it.

One of my users reported it to me just now: it displayed some kind of feed directly in his browser (chrome). A hit on refresh and the post was looking OK.

See attached file for a screenshot.

In my apache log, I have this:

xx.xxx.xx.xx - - [06/May/2010:00:46:11 +0200] "GET /post/2010/05/06/fantasychan-laggre-qua-tort HTTP/1.1" 200 74094 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1064 Safari/532.5"

The fact that it didn't redirect it anywhere makes me believe it's not a redirection/.htaccess issue...

Since it's happening randomly, it's difficult to reproduce and I just can't disable all plugins on my wordpress site for a long period of time.

[AxelTerizaki]

Another occurence with chrome

[nacin]

Try flushing your rewrite rules. Go to Options > Permalink on both and hit Save Changes.

Odds are, a plugin did something screwy at one point. Even a plugin that is no longer activated or installed could have left rewrite rules.

Closing as worksforme. You're welcome to continue this in the WordPress.org support forums.