Hi ... I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable can offer some advice – Will be much appreciated!
I'm just in the middle of relocating my site & podcast hosting from Godaddy to Bluehost, and am hoping I can bring along my podcast subscribers that follow my weekly 2-hour jazz radio show/podcast.
(... while my training is in Music, not Software Engineering, I do my best with all this podcast, RSS feed, website design stuff ...)Currently enjoying a rich flavored experience of confusion and uncertainty regarding re-establishing my RSS feed and (re-)hooking up with iTunes Store.
(.. this was all prompted by iTunes Store dropping the listing of my show after several years carrying it, with Godaddy deemed to be the problem.)301 & HTACCESS
As part of the move, I decided to ditch podPress and start using Blubrry plugin to maintain the RSS feed.
SO FAR:
- all the main files (site & podcasts) have been copied from Godaddy to the BlueHost;
The DNS have been re-pointed to BlueHost and the site is serving from there now;
The podcasts are in a sub-folder off the root directory of the site;
The WordPress installation was made into the podcasts sub-folder;
Blubrry was installed;
The old RSS feed was: http://www.jazzboulevard.ca/podcasts/?feed=podcast;
There exists an iTunesID however the iTunes Store no longer lists the podcast since 3 months;
Blubrry is suggesting a different feed to supply to iTunes based on the BlueHost servers;
NOW FOR THE CONFUSION:
- I read the HTTP301 is supposed to be setup on Godaddy not BlueHost;
However, I had to re-point the DNS to BlueHost to get the site serving from there;
Since the RSS Feed refers to the domain, that's now BlueHost;
I assume there's no point to try to do the 301 HTACCESS on the BlueHost files;
And there are 2 HTACCESS files I see at Bluehost – one in the root directory of the site, and another in the podcasts sub-directory where the Wordpress installation was made.
So, how would you proceed? Is it just time to forget about the old RSS feed (that would be a shame since over the years I have subscribed the feed to numerous podcast portals).
Is it best to handle this as a brand new request to iTunes, or as just an update to an existing (albeit dropped) iTunes Store podcast? How to register it with iTunes?
Is there a way to keep the old RSS feed alive?
Finally, with Blubrry suggesting a new RSS feed of:
http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~jazzboul/podcasts/feed/podcast/ ... I see a '~' symbol and wonder if that's problematic?
Oh well, like I said, a rich flavored experience of confusion and uncertainty ...
Again, any advise appreciated!
Cheers!