Wordpress RSS Feed Problem with Cloudflare

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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What is the name of the domain?

What is the error 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.

What is the issue you’re encountering

wordpress - RSS not working - 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.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

We have tried disabling all plugins, the problem still persists.

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

I don’t know

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

https://www.gadgetbridge.com/feed
and https://www.gadgetbridge.com/feed/GN

Are our RSS feeds. Both have stopped working. We searched Wordpress forums and they community there says it is common issue with Cloudflare. (Invalid RSS Feed | WordPress.org)

Can you help resolve it.

As when we try to validate it - we get this error - 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.
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gadgetbridge.com%2Ffeed%2Fgn

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Can you see it normally without any XML error when you’re logged-in your WordPress? :thinking:

If not, then one of your plugins is interferring in between and you’d have to fix it with an quite old implementation, which is still working fine for my WordPress instances:

Are you using any caching plugin for WordPress as well?

<!-- This website is like a Rocket, isn't it? Performance optimized by WP Rocket. Learn more: https://wp-rocket.me - Debug: cached@1731671689 -->

As from above, you are using WP Rocket.
Exclude any /feed/ URLs from the caching (knows to happent to serve them as text/html, instead rss/xml, atom/xml, etc.).

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Hi, Plugins are not always the problem.

We found the problem.

In Cloudflare it was in security > bots> bots fight mode. Turned it off and RSS worked.

Had to do a lot of digging.

The issue can be closed now.

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