Author Topic: Feed URL changed, now iTunes isn't downloading any episodes  (Read 1892 times)

codeyh

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Website - http://www.section303.com
Old Feed - http://www.section303.com/feed/podcast/
New Feed - http://www.section303.com/?feed=podcast
iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=310447522

-Tried setting my main RSS feed up with FeedBurner, but have since removed it.
-When the feed changed for the podcast, i put the new feed address in the new itunes url. 
-A 301 has been set up to redirect from the old feed to the new one, although with the trailing / at the end of podcast, that's proving difficult with cpanel, it's wanting to make my link ?feed=podcast/
-I've downloaded redirection plugin for Wordpress, and set it up that way, although the redirection isn't happening.

Any more ideas to get my old podcast feed to point to the new one??  mainly for iTunes to see the new link!?

« Last Edit: May 18, 2009, 02:32:57 pm by codeyh »

angelo

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Re: Feed URL changed, now iTunes isn't downloading any episodes
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2009, 03:34:31 pm »
It appears you disabled "permalinks" and that is causing the problem. PowerPress will give you the same Feed URL you had before (http://www.section303.com/feed/podcast/) with Permalinks enabled. The other advantage to using Permalinks is how search engines will look at each page of your blog. It almost always adds 1-2 points to your Google ranking when using Permalinks. The easiest fix would be to turn permalinks back on.

Can you share the ModRewrite rule you added in the group? I'm thinking it should look something like this and be above the other rules that are created by WordPress.

Code: [Select]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite to add:
RewriteRule ^feed/podcast http://www.section303.com/?feed=podcast [R=301,L]

# Then do the rewrite conditions/rule for WordPress
RewriteCond ...
RewriteCond ...
RewriteRule ...

Just a quick explanation, the RewriteRule basically says anything start with feed/podcast in the url, which would match feed/podcast and feed/podcast/ or even /feed/podcast/anything_else will be redirected with a 301 status to the url specified. The L in the [R=301,L] means if this rule is used, it is the last rule and all future rules are ignored. If yo don't include that L, the other rewrite rules will take effect.

codeyh

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Re: Feed URL changed, now iTunes isn't downloading any episodes
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2009, 04:20:21 pm »
ModRewrite? Where would I find this?
« Last Edit: May 18, 2009, 04:28:00 pm by codeyh »

angelo

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Re: Feed URL changed, now iTunes isn't downloading any episodes
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2009, 10:14:28 pm »
When you go into the Settings > Pernalinks section of WordPress, you can select a beautifully formatted links. When you do, it will generate what is called a .htaccess file with the ModRewrite rules needed in order to make your site work. Your old Podcast FEED URL used permalinks, so at some point you turned them off. Most likely you either did this unintentionally or something happened to the .htaccess file in your web site. Either way, if you're not sure where to proceed, I recommend yo contact your web hosting provider or the person who installed WordPress for you.