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1. srmaximo
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi Everyone,

   Thanks for this great resource. This forum has helped me answer a ton of questions, but I don't know if my particular problem has been discussed, so here it is....

   About a month ago I moved my blog from Blogger (hosted on my server) to Wordpress. I used Feedburner to publish (is that the right term?) my feed on the old blog. Now I'm trying to figure out how to redirect the people who suscribed to my old blog, so that they can access my new blog's feed, which I'd also like to publish using Feedburner, so that I can monitor its stats.

   I had my hosting service do a 301 redirect for my old blog's url to my new one, so I'm pretty sure I could have them do the same for my old feed to my new one (I don't know how to access my .htaccess file, and I've read that's what needs to be done). So I guess I just need to figure out which feed url's to give them.

   Here are some stumbling blocks:

   1. Blogger uses atom feeds. Is it going to be a problem to redirect suscribers to my new site's rss feed?

   2. When I redirect people, do I redirect them from the feedburner url or the url of the original atom.xml file?

   3. I assume I'll need to start another feed with Feedburner. Which url do I give them--the /wp-rss2.php one or the /?feed=rss2 one? Neither seems to make Feedburner happy when I enter them into feedburner's form. Do I need to do something else to my Wordpress blog to get that feed working properly, or do I need to do something different when I submit the url to Feedburner?

   4. Do I redirect to the feedburner url or the /wp-rss2.php (or /?feed=rss2) url?

   FYI:

   My blog: http://www.heartwoodguitar.com/WordPressBlog/
   My old feed: http://www.heartwoodguitar.com/blog/atom.xml

   I'm obviously in over my head--any flotation devices are much appreciated.

   --Rob

2. angsuman
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   > I used Feedburner to publish (is that the right term?) my feed on the old blog.

   Just go to feedburner and change the feed URL to the feed URL of your new blog. That's it!

   Note: Feedburner supports atom and rss. So does wordpress. It provides feeds in three formats. Personally I stick with RSS 2.0.

3. cron
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   As previously said just change the url in your feedburner profile. As for people acessing your feed directly just use a slimple mod_rewrite command in your .htacess to redirect people from the old URL to the new URL (be that atom or RSS) It would look something like this:

   
RewriteRule ^blog/atom.xml$ wordpressblog/wp-atom.php [R]


   That way it will redirect from your old feed to your new feed for you. The [R] on the end means that it will show people the change of adress. To use it, (I know what you said but try this) just paste it in a text editor and then save the file as .htacess After that just upload it.

   As for feedburner just give them the link to /wp-rss2.php if that still does not work and you figure out the .htacess problem then just give them a /feed/ and use .htacess to redirect them.

   Hope that helps,
   Cron

4. srmaximo
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Great, thanks a ton. I'm glad it's as easy as just giving Feedburner my new URL--the /wp-rss2.php worked. I don't think I'll try the .htaccess coding (I'm just using Dreamweaver, and was told that I'd need other software to do it), but I doubt many people suscribed to my feed directly anyway--I pointed people to the Feedburner URL from the start.

   Thanks again,

   Rob

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