Posted 5 years ago #
We had to move a client's instance of WordPress from http://website/blog/ to http://blog.website/
We're worried about people who subscribed to the old blog's RSS feed. Would there be a way for me to create a hard-coded RSS feed for the old location? My idea is to just create a static RSS feed that says "blog has moved, go here instead".
Or does anyone have any other suggestions to fix this?
Thanks.
Posted 5 years ago #
You could do a simple redirect with .htaccess perhaps... from a user experience perspective, soft transitions are better than a call to action (which will usually be ignored).
Posted 5 years ago #
The "proper way" to do this would be to respond with a 301 Permanently Moved at the old url. Assuming you're using apache, a mod_rewrite. Something like this in an .htaccess file in the docroot for http://website/blog/ would work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^feed/$ http://blog.website/feed/ [R=permanent,L]
This tells apache to respond with something similar to the following:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://blog.website/feed/
Any decent feed reader will recognize the 301, redirect to the new url, and update itself to use the new url in the future.
Check out the mod_rewrite docs and the status code section of the HTTP spec for more info.
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