andersoen
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
Podpress has stoppet updating on the old url, and when I try to tell it to use a different url (the one that works), it wont change the url.
The first part of the page has the following settings:
itunes feed id:422272439
itunes new feed enable yes
new url: http://filadelfia.no/?feed=motepunkt
When it comes to the different feeds I have one called "feed Motepunkt"
This one has the settings:
Feed name: Møtepunkt
current feed url: http://www.devoted.no/filadelfia/feed/motepunkt/
at the bottom, Enable new feed url: yes
the new feed url: http://filadelfia.no/?feed=motepunkt
feed type RSS
ID: 422272439
I have a diffent feed on the same server, which works. Same setup.
For some reason it has stopped posting in http://www.devoted.no/filadelfia/feed/motepunkt/
and thats where itunes is looking.
Any hints?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/
With the itunes:new-feed-url function you can tell the iTunes Store to look at a different, new place for the podcast episodes. You enable this feature and insert the URL of the new feed in the input field nearby.
The iTunes Store needs some time to update the URL. But until this has happened. It is necessary that both feeds exist at the same time. (Don't deactivate the old feed to soon.)
Your old feed at the iTS is http://www.devoted.no/filadelfia/feed/motepunkt/ and it is correct to enable and use the itunes:new-feed-url function to the new feed URL http://filadelfia.no/?feed=motepunkt
But http://www.devoted.no/filadelfia/feed/motepunkt/ does not seem to be an URL of a RSS feed. If you open it in your browser you will see that it leads to a normal blog page (or post). The URL in the address bar of the browser changes rerouting.
Because that is no RSS feed URL (anymore), the iTS will not update the list of the episode if it still uses this as the feed URL.
one possibility is to make this URL of the "current Feed" an URL of a Feed again and to use the new-feed-url function.
Another possibility is maybe what is written in the section Submission Errors and Duplicate Feeds of the iTunes Podcasting Resources
Regards,
Tim
andersoen
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
Hi Tim
Thanks for you helping me out.
Some comments. I understand that the new-feed-url needs some time, but I dont understand why podpress doesn´t update itself, since I´m telling it about the new url.
secondly, you are correct that the url http://www.devoted.no/filadelfia/feed/motepunkt/ doesn´t work, but it used to, and now it has, and that´s what puzzles me. And I dont know how to make this work as the url again. If I knew that, I would of course activate that again.
Anders
Hi Anders,
I dont understand why podpress doesn´t update itself
If you set the itunes:new-feed-url option to "Enable" and insert the new URL then podPress updates your current (or old) feed immediately and adds an additional XML tag <itunes:new-feed-url> which contains also the URL which you have inserted as the URL of the new feed. But the iTS needs to update at least 24h and when it does read your current podcast feed and discovers the URL of the new then it takes some additional time to update all the iTS data base and servers. I don't know what exactly happens there. Apple writes: "[...]After adding the tag to your old feed, you should maintain the old feed for 48 hours before retiring it. At that point, iTunes will have updated the directory with the new feed URL.[...]" (see http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#newfeed)
but it used to, and now it has, and that´s what puzzles me
You don't know why it does not work anymore?
Maybe you don't need to revive that old feed.
One possibility is to tell the iTunes Store people that there is a problem: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#errors
Or it might be possible to redirect this URL to a different or the new feed. Most servers have the possibility to define rewrite rules
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess
How that works depends on the server of your blog.
I'm no expert of these redirects and rewrite rules. But maybe you can ask your hosting provider. Maybe this company has FAQs which help with such questions.
andersoen
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
Thanks for all help. I think I figured out one thing, you have to change something in permalinks, before saving. Just add and remover a character.
But in the end I gave up, and installed Blubrry powerpress, and submitted new urls to iTunes, and now it works.
submitted new urls to iTunes, and now it works.
That would have worked also with podPress. Actually removing the old URLs and adding new ones to the iTS is what in http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#errors is explained.
