RSS feeds broken, possibly friendly URL-related

lazy llama

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I noticed that I was getting 404 errors for requests to forum RSS feeds - <forum url>/index.rss
This had been working until recently, so may in my case be down to nginx location reconfig.
Using the non-friendly URL (with index.php?) gives the rss feed expected. My XF installs which are in root directories work fine.

However, on checking the XF community forums I found that they are also broken, though in a different way.

Each RSS feed, e.g. https://xenforo.com/community/forums/bugs/index.rss
gives

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Just a hiccup related to running the upcoming patch releases here (2.3.5 in this case), I think. I can't reproduce any issues otherwise so I think this would likely be down to a server configuration issue.
 
Just a hiccup related to running the upcoming patch releases here (2.3.5 in this case), I think. I can't reproduce any issues otherwise so I think this would likely be down to a server configuration issue.
Traced my own issue back to an nginx config modification setting .rss content to be treated as static content with long cache duration plus CloudFlare caching that even more.
So all sorted now.
 
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