drezac

So- if I had to do it all again, I would never have used Feedburner for these category feeds on Podpress.

I created them because at the time, I didn’t know what Podtrac was. However to really make podtrac work, I would have started by simply using the original Podpress category feeds directly to iTunes, then using Podtracs enhanced feeds instead.

Unfortunately, what I have now is this middle-man: feedburner. For one of our feeds, I thought I could simply delete the Feedburner feed. Now, even the original feed doesn’t work:

edreach.us/category/littech/feed

.

In my wisdom, I deleted the feedburner feed associated with that category, and feedburner is still directing to an error page. How long does it take for me to get back the original feed? When will they stop redirecting? Just curious…

In order to fix this, I’d have to start all over with a new category, and republish to iTunes. That’s not what I want to do.

Any ideas? Thanks.

DR

Okay – to support my idea that there is something weird just going on with Category feeds, explain this.

I created a redirect from edreach.us/feed/podcast (main podcast feed)
feeds.feedburner.com/edreachnetwork

And guess what? It’s updated. So only my category feeds are not updating when the redirect is in place. Don’t know….

DR

Okay-

So I actually talked to Podtrac on the phone today. We went back and forth. Basically they said that by adding my raw feed redirecting to Podtract is creating some sort of re-direct loop and not updating the feed.

I tried a test. In the htaccess file I created a redirect to a feedburner feed:

feed://feeds.feedburner.com/edunation

No error message. However- the feed never updated after a new show went in.

Whatever it is- whenever I try to implement a redirect- it STOPs the feed update. Podtrac said it was like being in a room with an “in” door without any “out” door. Okay…

There is a button on podtracs side to “refresh” feeds. I hit it, then nothing.

We recently had a dev do some work on adding custom post types for us. He edited the functions.php file. I wonder if you could see anything that might make this happen? I know that when I take away these redirects- the feeds will update once again.

/**
 * Custom Post Types
 */
register_post_type(
  'podcast', array(
    'label'         => 'Podcast',
    'public'        => true,
    'show_ui'       => true,
    'capability_type'   => 'post',
    'hierarchical'      => false,
    'has_archive'     => true,
    'query_var'       => true,
    'supports'        => array(
      'title',
      'editor',
      'author',
      'comments',
      'revisions',
      'thumbnail',
      //'page-attributes',
    ),
    'taxonomies'      => array('podcast-channel', 'category', 'post_tag'),
  )
);

function add_category_to_cpt() {
  register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'podcast');
  register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'podcast');
}
add_action('init', 'add_category_to_cpt');

I edited the htaccess file.

I added

AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html

to the htaccess file right in the beginning. I have to say the re-directs happen much faster, however, it still gives me that error, and the feeds still don’t update.

I’m going on day three of this, and we feel like we’re close. What now?

I turned off the redirect, and used the link that you sent me. Below is how I wrote it.

Seemed to load faster- but no feed update and same error. This is what that looks like. They are taking all day to get back to me (sometimes 2 days). Ugh.

Thanks, Tim.

rewriteengine on
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.edreach.us$ [OR]
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^edreach.us$
rewriterule ^category\/edadmin-cast\/feed$ "http\:\/\/feeds\.podtrac\.com\/WTHAMtqadUU$" [R=301,L] #504ff64ba2984
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.edreach.us$ [OR]
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^edreach.us$
rewriterule ^newsletter$ "http\:\/\/edreach\.us1\.list-manage2\.com\/subscribe?u=52c806c527b871e20ee9e9ba7&id=bc9e8ba8e8" [R=301,L] #4f836f411065a

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^category/littech/feed http://feeds.podtrac.com/Pkb6GU-CLAU$ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^category/edunationcast/feed http://feeds.podtrac.com/ntX-BC3LTIc$ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^category/edadmin-cast/feed http://feeds.podtrac.com/WTHAMtqadUU$ [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

FYI-

This link really is helpful for 301 Redirects in wordpress and just shows you how to do it:

http://www.podcastfaq.com/syndicating-your-podcast/changing-your-podcast-rss-feed-address-url/

The Godaddy system puts the redirect outside of WordPress in .htaccess, so I’m going to see what happens now within that section.

The Player has returned- it was conflicting with W3 Total Cache, which I instituted yesterday.

DR

Okay let me guess. It has something to do with this? I ran feed validator…

Your feed appears to be encoded as “utf-8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”

Am I right?

DR

This is what I’m supposed to do:

You should set your web server to return an HTTP 301 response and redirect when receiving a request for the old feed. Doing so will cause both the iTS and most (but not all) iTunes clients that have subscribed to your podcast to pick up the new feed URL.

Any help is appreciated.

DR