RSS Error – Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”

KB ID 0000889 

Problem

I don’t validate and check the sites RSS feed as often as I should, but post server migration I got this error;

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your sever is reporting “US-ASCII”

Solution

As you can see by the section I’ve indicated above, I can see where the UTF-8 is being set on the page. I just need my server (CentOS with Apache2) to allow it.

1. Edit (or create a file in the same directory as the RSS XML file) .htaccess and add the following lines to the end.

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# Add the UTF-8 Character Set
AddCharset UTF-8 .xml

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2. The restart Apache.

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service https restart

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WSUS Error – ‘An HTTP error has occurred’

KB ID 0000796 

Problem

Seen on SBS 2011 and Server 2008 R2. When running the WSUS configuration wizard, at the ‘Connect to Upstream Server’ page, connection fails;

An HTTP error occurred Details…

When viewing details you see;

WebExpeption: The request failed with the error message:
<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
<h2>Object moved to <a href-“%2fmicrosoftupdate%2fv6ferrorinformation.aspx%3ferrror%3d15”>here</a>.</h2>
</body></html>

Well that’s great, thanks for that?

Solution

1. Nice easy one to fix, download and install this update.

2. In my case it asked for a reboot post install, however if yours does not, I would restart the server and try again. Post reboot it worked fine.

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