Joomla 1.7.1 Broken RSS Feed - How to Fix It!!

OK - probably the two fastest posts to this blog I've ever made.

There is a fix for the broken RSS feed (Syndication) problem in Joomla 1.7.1 and it's not hard. In fact, there are two fixes.

The easiest one is to turn off the system caching plugin (System - Cache). Definitely not ideal at all as it will have detrimental performance characteristics for your install.

The least easy one is to modify a line in libraries/joomla/cache/cache.php - Line 529 to be precise.

Check it. It should be "if ($loptions['nohead'] != 1) {"

Go ahead and change it to "if ($loptions['nohead'] != 1 && method_exists($document, 'getHeadData')) {" and re-test.

Worked for me, should work for you.

Good luck!

Cheers - TheTechnoHippie.