Wordpress @ Ralf Engel dot Com

I’ve installed Wordpress MU 2.6.5. on my main http://ralfengel.com domain.
I’m using it with subdomains - not virtual host wildcards but - CName setup on the tuxtools server configuration.
On the main domain feeds work fine. On this first subdomain http://wordpress.ralfengel.com feeds work fine.
Today I added a new subdomain at http://spirituality.ralfengel.com and as before tried to use the handy feedwordpress plugin to keep the main blog updated by harvesting excerpts of posts from the subdomains, which worked with the first subdomain, but, on this new subdomain it doesn’t work. I get this error message:

Error: I couldn’t find any feeds at spirituality.ralfengel.com [HTTP request error: Invalid protocol ""\n]. Try another URL

when I try to add the new URL to the plugin syndication feeds.

When I click on the feed url of the subdomain blog I get this message:
This page contains the following errors:

error on line 3 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

But, there is nothing else below…

I’ve used the following commands (pasted into the sidebar)

<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?> (RSS 2.0 format)
<?php bloginfo(’rss_url’); ?> (RSS 0.92 format)
<?php bloginfo(’rdf_url’); ?> (RDF/RSS 1.0 format)
<?php bloginfo(’atom_url’); ?> (Atom format)

to get my feed info shown. It shows as:

http://spirituality.ralfengel.com/feed (RSS 2.0 format)
http://spirituality.ralfengel.com/feed/rss (RSS 0.92 format)
http://spirituality.ralfengel.com/feed/rdf (RDF/RSS 1.0 format) http://spirituality.ralfengel.com/feed/atom (Atom format)

I’ve tried them by pasting each one into the browser, but neither works.
Weird is that on my first subdomain everything went fine. So I did tons of Googleing on this issue and found a plugin called “Fix rss feed” made by Fuk Loi.
This plugin will search ALL files on the server for “empty spaces” and eliminate those. I used it, had to do a lot of CHMODing, and tried to syndicate again, still without success. So I went to have a look at Feed Validator, ran my feed through their analysis and it came up OK.
My last hope was to get into my SQL management page on the host and see what was going on.
At the PHP my Admin panel I checked my tables out:

- Check Tables
- Analyze Tables
- Repair Tables
- Optimize Tables

I came back to my Syndication Plugin and It worked fine. It accepted the RSS feed URI and it did an update of the last 10 posts without any problems.

To resume, I am not able to put my finger on the exact problem of this problem, but something that I did must have fixed it.

I’d love to hear from you if this information has been of any help for you.