Moved blog, forgot to notify feeds

  • I was looking at my stats and realized there were feeds from my postings. I’m afraid I had neglected to post that the site was moving before moving it.

    I would like for someone to be able to subscribe to a feed at the new location, but would also like it to send updates to feeds to the old location as well. Is this possible?

    Is there any way to redirect the feeds to the new location short of moving the site back, posting that it was moving, then moving it back to the new location?

    I was looking at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Feeds, in the section Changing Addresses, it says:

    If you are currently using other webblog software and are changing to WordPress, or are moving your weblog to a new location, you can “forward” RSS readers to your new RSS feeds using file rewrites and redirects in your .htaccess file.

    Edit the .htaccess file in your root folder, if no file exists, create one.

    Here is an example for a b2 feed:

    RewriteRule ^b2rss2.php(.*)? /wordpress/?feed=rss2 [QSA]
    Here is an example for MovableType Users:

    RewriteRule ^index.xml(.*)? /wordpress/?feed=rss2 [QSA]
    Feed Director provides rewrite rules for common feed filenames used by other blogging platforms, such as index.xml, index.rdf, rss.xml, rss2.xml, atom.xml, *.xml, via an easy-to-use “install it and forget it” plugin.

    Would this work for me?

    RewriteRule ^b2rss2.php(.*)? /wordpress/?feed=rss2 [QSA]

    Would this go into my new location’s .httaccess file? And would the /wordpress/ point to the old location of the blog so that updates I make to the new location will feed those subscribed to the old location?

    Also, it says the .htaccess file goes in the root directory. Is this the blog’s root directory or the site’s root (public_html)? I have 2 blogs, it’s only the second one that this affects.

    Thanks much in advance!

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  • Thread Starter mrsspooky

    (@mrsspooky)

    Can anyone help with my redirect question? I want to redirect the stream from my blog’s old location (that doesn’t exist any more) so that the subscribers can get the stream from its new location. How can I do this?

    Thanks!

    If your old domain and hosting and don’t exist anymore, you can’t redirect from there anymore. Get hosting again for your old domain and then you can redirect from it.

    Thread Starter mrsspooky

    (@mrsspooky)

    It’s all on the same site. It’s just the wordpress folder that used to have the blog doesn’t have wordpress in it any more. It’s in the same domain, just a different path to the blog.

    If it’s the same domain, I’d do a simple 301 redirect in an .htaccess in the old WordPress folder:

    Redirect 301 /wordpress/?feed=rss2   https://mydomain.com/?feed=rss2

    and test it. Then send out a feed item asking people to resubscribe.

    Also, make the permissions on the old WP folder 644 for security and put a blank file called index.php in it, too.

    Thread Starter mrsspooky

    (@mrsspooky)

    So I have an .htaccess file in the old folder, which is called ‘wordpress’

    Would that be:

    Redirect 301 /new_folder_name/?feed=rss2 https://mydomain.com/?feed=rss2

    I have 2 blogs, 2 feeds (if I get the second one working again). I wouldn’t want to use mydomain.com because that would be my first blog. The one I want to redirect is in new_folder_name.

    I want to make sure too, that in the https://mydomain.com/?feed-rss2 that It doesn’t feed everything, just what’s in the new_folder_name. Would I add new_folder_name to the end of mydomain.com to get this to work?

    I posted an entry, when would I expect to see the feeds picked up if it was working? Is that only when they are read that they show up? Or when sent?

    Sorry for the newbie questions, I am.. well… a newbie.

    Mrsspooky,

    I’m sure you have this sorted now as the post is so old, but for anyone else who’s moving feeds about and wants flexibility with their feeds you should use feedburner from google.

    Once you’ve burned a feed it gives you a single feed url for all your rss items, when you move your blog you simply chnage the url feed in feedbuner and it changes the source of the feed but not your feedburner feed url which remains constant – meaning you never lose subscribers when you change the source url.

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