I have aMember 3.1.8 and I'm trying to publish an RSS feed from my protected blog and email it to my paid subscribers through MailChimp. However, when I enter my blog's feed URL into MailChimp, I get an error saying that it's not a valid RSS feed. When I try to validate my feed, it says the site is not referencing a valid XML file. Is this due to aMember protection? Is there a way around this? I'm looking into purchasing aMail so only my current subscribers receive my RSS feed, but I'm wondering if I'll be able to publish a feed at all as long as my blog is protected. My blog folder is protected under new_rewrite.
Only logged in people will be able to see the RSS feed that is in your protected directory. You may be able to get a 3rd party code written that creates the feed from an unprotected area. Or maybe place another copy of your CMS system in an unprotected directory, and delete out all the files not used to create the RSS. David
You might be able to protect your feed with htaccess instead of new_rewrite. Check the mailchimp help pages.