I have Joomla 1.5.22 and SEF Advance 2.4.3. If I turn off SEF Advance and the core SEF and use Firefox to see what RSS feeds are available for my blog section, I get this URL:
/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=8&Itemid=51&format=feed&type=rss
Turning SEF Advance back on and looking back at available feeds with Firefox I see this URL:
/blog/rss.feed
So I put <index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=8&Itemid=51&format=feed&type=rss> in my template's index.php for the little rss icon in the footer. SEF Advance converts that to just /blog/ though. So clicking the icon takes me to my blog and not the RSS feed. What am I missing? SEF Advance is obviously converting the internal RSS feed to short form, but not when I put the link directly in my template's index.php.