Can I quietly redirect my RSS feed? Sep05 '07

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# (1 of 1): Andy Atkinson

17 hours, 7 minutes after the fact. (Thu 06 Sep 2007, 9:07 AM CST)

mod_rewrite to the rescue! You should be able to direct your existing URL to a new URL. I think current subscribers will pick up the new URL if the feed reader understands the permanent redirect.

I am just a beginner with this stuff, here is official docs. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

You want an ".htaccss" file in your public root directory. You should be able to add the following rule:

Redirect permanent /feed/matthom.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/matthom

The good thing about using Feedburner is now if you ever change your address again, you update it with feedburner and the URL never changes!

Check your stats and make sure there aren't people 404-ing. If you mess up the .htaccess file, it will kill your webserver too, so be prepared to FTP in a restore a working copy.

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I want to redirect subscribers to a new RSS feed, but avoid any interruption. Is this possible?

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