[thelist] FW: Help with RSS - Changing Blog Platform

Jon Molesa rjmolesa at consoltec.net
Tue Jan 16 09:35:39 CST 2007


Never mind my post, Steve's is much simpler.

* Stephen Rider <evolt_org at striderweb.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Gina Anderson wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to change a blogging platform from Movable Type to  
> > Wordpress and
> > I am having problems getting the feed readers to pick up the new  
> > entries on
> > the new wordpress blog. What I want to do is seamlessly move current
> > subscribers to the "old blog" to pick up the "new blog's" feed url,  
> > without
> > having them change anything in their feed readers
> 
> > Okay, so the old MT feeds were located here:
> > http://www.site.com/index.rdf
> > http://www.site.com/index.xml
> >
> > The new WP feeds are supposedly located here:
> > http://www.site.com/feed
> >
> > /-----------------------------
> > Redirect http://www.site.com/index.rdf http://www.site.com/feed
> > Redirect http://www.site.com/index.xml http://www.site.com/feed
> 
> > /-------------------------------
> 
> Try:
> 
> redirect /index.rdf http://www.site.com/feed
> redirect /index.xml http://www.site.com/feed
> 
> or better yet:
> 
> redirect 301 /index.rdf http://www.site.com/feed
> redirect 301 /index.xml http://www.site.com/feed
> 
> Steve
> Who has spent lots of "quality time" monkeying with rewrites and  
> redirects after reworking his blog....
> 
> 
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