Redirect RSS feeds to new URL

  • I recently moved my website from https://www.rebeccakdesigns.com/blog to https://www.acreativenomad.com/blog. This was through a website migration through my hosting company. They are saying they can’t fixed the RSS redirection.

    I’m wondering how to do it myself. I want my old subscribers to still be getting my feeds.

    I had a look in the ht.access file and the code is below but that doesn’t seem to be working.

    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteOptions inherit

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^acreativenomad\.com$ [OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.acreativenomad\.com$
    RewriteRule ^/?$ “http\:\/\/acreativenomad\.com\/blog” [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
    RewriteRule ^www\.rebeccakdesigns\.com\/blog\/feed$ “http\:\/\/www\.acreativenomad\.com\/blog\/feed” [R=301,L]

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Is the old domain still online?

    If so, just do this instead of that block of rewrite rules in a .htaccess file under the old domain:

    Redirect permanent / https://www.acreativenomad.com

    If you place that in a .htaccess file at the root of https://www.rebeccakdesigns.com it will issue a 301 permanent redirect with everything after the following / and then drop https://www.acreativenomad.com in front.

    For example:

    https://www.rebeccakdesigns.com -> https://www.acreativenomad.com

    https://www.rebeccakdesigns.com/blog/ -> https://www.acreativenomad.com/blog/

    https://www.rebeccakdesigns.com/blog/feed/ -> https://www.acreativenomad.com/blog/feed/

    https://www.rebeccakdesigns.com/blog/design-services/ -> https://www.acreativenomad.com/blog/design-services/

    etc.

    With that said, not all feed readers recognize redirects (some just consider it a broken feed), but most will work.

    I am having the same issue and want to make sure I’m understanding this correctly. My old RSS feed is still going out, as all I did was change the URL of my site. But, my old feed is going out under the old name (linking to the new URL, though). Is this how I update/redirect the old feed?

    My new site is https://www.alinadesignco.com

    I should also say that I previously had a form up for people to subscribe to the blog via RSS through feedburner (I’ve since realized that was a terrible mistake). So, it’s the old feedburner feed going out–can I redirect that? Feedburner won’t let me claim the old feed/old URL.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Yes, the above will redirect the built-in feed.

    For the Feedburber feed, you’ll need to edit the feed on Feedburber and change the feed’s source URL to the new feed’s URL.

    See above, but feedburner won’t let me claim the old feed to edit it. We tried changing everything back to the old URL, but feedburner is claiming there are zero subscriptions there (I’m receiving them in my inbox and others are forwarding them to me, so I know that’s not accurate). Is there another way to retrieve the old feed’s subscribers via Feedburner?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Not that I know of, you’ll need to contact Feedburner about that.

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