Joomla 3 RSS url syntax

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I am building a network of Joomla 3.x websites for a company. There will be one over-arching "master site" and then a series of "mini-sites" for each company division. Each mini-site will have its own news blog layout page.

I need to aggregate all the news from the mini-sites to the master site. My plan thus far has been to set up RSS feeds from each of the mini-site news pages and pull those feeds into the master site using menu item "news feed > single news feed".

The problem is that Joomla 3 does not seem to recognise its own RSS feeds. I think it comes down to the syntax of the URL which is...

http://minisite1.mydomain.com/news?format=feed&type=rss

When I put this URL into any other RSS reader they too throw errors so this must be where the error lies.

I must be doing something fairly fundamentally wrong here but I can't figure what it must be. Can anyone suggest a solution? Or perhaps an alternative way of aggregating content from different Joomla websites?

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If you are having issues finding the RSS url on a page you can always add the Syndication Feeds module (default in Joomla) to the page. The page has to be a blog layout for the module to show/work. When the module is displayed, click on the RSS icon for a new page to display the feed URL.

Well once you gather each of your feeds URI's, most commonly, minisite1.mydomain.com/news/index.php?format=feed&type=rss, you can insert them into this FREE module available from Joomla Works at: http://www.joomlaworks.net/extensions/free/simple-rss-feed-reader

After downloading, their module allows you to display each feed merged as if it were one feed (of course the order of each displayed depends on timestamp of each post).