Change of Directory/RSS

I decided to switch my Movable Type install over to a WordPress install after taking a look at the software and taking a liking to it. I run a podcast website (https://www.geekshow.us) and WordPress/Podpress does a good job of handeling RSS feeds for them.

I designed my new theme/Wordpress install outside of my root directory in a folder: /wp/. Everything worked out great, and I was able to verify that all the feeds were working. So when I was happy with the way things looked, I started making the switch. I changed the Blog Directory of my WordPress install to point to the root directory, while the files remained in /wp/. I also verified that my RSS feeds were still working by navigating to them in firefox.

So then I started redirecting iTunes to the RSS feeds. Boom, they stopped working. I took a trip to feed validator, and determined an interesting thing. The feeds were being rejected with a 404 error, AND they were showing up. That’s right, even though they were still there, they were still giving a 404 error.

After thinking about it for a moment, I determined that the problem was that I was still using a style like this: https://www.geekshow.us/wp/?feed=rss2&cat=12 for my RSS feeds, rather than this: https://www.geekshow.us/?feed=rss2&cat=12

Notice how there is that /wp/ in there? Yeah, apparently, even though the RSS feed can still be accessed from that location (Making my Firefox pre-switch check useless), it still returns a 404 error, and screws up the feed in iTunes because that makes the feed invalid.

I quickly made the switch to the new format, but in the process, I know that several users got the messed up feed that returns an error.

So my question is this: Is there a way to make it so that the RSS feed can be accessed from both locations so that I can propagate the changes the feed URL while still keeping the working URL around? If not, is there a way to maybe do something like an 301 redirect? Since these are seemingly “fake” files, rather than actual RSS files, it doesn’t look like my redirect is working.

Any help would be appreciated. I find it a bit odd that the software won’t let you work from the “supposed” directory as well as the “actual” directory.