Title: Feed Redirect Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Feed Redirect Problem

 *  [hoyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoyd/)
 * (@hoyd)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-redirect-problem/)
 * I’ve had WP 1.5 installed for a while in a subdirectory on my site. it’s still
   accessible at [http://www.hoydnewsnetwork.com/skinny](http://www.hoydnewsnetwork.com/skinny)
 * Now though, I’ve got it’s own domain for that directory, so you can get there
   at [http://www.skinnyonsports.com](http://www.skinnyonsports.com)
 * The problem is this. The old feed was:
    [http://www.hoydnewsnetwork.com/skinny/feed/rss2/](http://www.hoydnewsnetwork.com/skinny/feed/rss2/)
 * The new feed is:
    [http://www.skinnyonsports.com/wp-rss2.php](http://www.skinnyonsports.com/wp-rss2.php)
   or [http://www.skinnyonsports.com/feed/rss2/](http://www.skinnyonsports.com/feed/rss2/)
 * I’ve got a redirect setup in my Cpanel to send the old feed to the new feed.
 * One problem though is that this feed is a podcast and many of my subscribers 
   still have the old feed and are using an older podcatching client – iPodder 1.1.4(
   version 2.0 works fine).
 * iPodder 1.1.4 returns a 301 unknown code when it trys to access the old feed.
 * I will obviously announcing on my website and in the podcast for people to update
   to the new feed, but is there anything I can do to prevent losing listeners still
   with iPodder 1.1.4 and the old feed? Since Cpanel is telling my site to send 
   the old feed to the new one, how do I make it so people using the old feed, won’t
   be sent and then I can create a copy of the feed at the old location?
 * I don’t think that’s a very good solution or even if that’s possible, so any 
   other advice would be appreciated.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/)
 * (@coldforged)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-redirect-problem/#post-171530)
 * I just helped a [podcaster](http://reelreviewsradio.com/archives/2005/03/20/new-domain-name-for-reel-reviews/)
   do this very thing. You’ll want to create a script in your old location that 
   scrapes your new feed every so often — I have Michael set up on a cron job that
   runs every 15 minutes — and copies it to a local cache if the feed has changed.
   Have a silent .htaccess rewrite from your old feed location to this local cache
   file, not a redirect but a rewrite so that podcast software doesn’t even know
   about the redirect.
 * You might ask Michael what’s in play on his site… I’ve done my bid for King and
   country, so that’s all my contributions for today in those terms. Maybe someday
   I’ll turn it into a “recipe” type of thing.
 *  Thread Starter [hoyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoyd/)
 * (@hoyd)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-redirect-problem/#post-171632)
 * Can you give me a bit of a hint… 🙂
 * The problem is, when I add this line to my rewrite rules:
 * RewriteRule ^skinny/feed/rss2/$ skinny.xml
 * it doesn’t work. It actually gives me the feed for my other site that is in the
   root directory of my server, not the skinny directory. Also, could we not just
   use a rewrite to redirect to the new feed on the new site, or is that still considered
   a “redirect”. For example, could we not do:
 * RewriteRule ^skinny/feed/rss2/$ [http://skinnyonsports.com/wp-rss2.php](http://skinnyonsports.com/wp-rss2.php)
 * Either way, that doesn’t work for me. It just points to my other blog as I mentioned
   above.
 * However, this does work:
 * RewriteRule ^test/test.htm$ skinny.xml
 * So, I know that the rewrite is working – I’ve taken out that rewrite for now,
   that was just me testing to make sure I actually could get at least one rewrite
   to work.
 * Any other help would be appreciated as I feel like I’m close! I have a feeling
   it’s due to rewrite rules in my root directory’s .htaccess file for the root 
   WP install, and that’s throwing off the rewrite for the /skinny WP install.
 * Thanks again!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [hoyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoyd/)
 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-redirect-problem/#post-171632)
 * Status: not resolved

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