What happens to your RSS feed when you move your blog?

I’ve moved my blog from www.tssg.org/blog/jgood to blogs.tssg.org/jgood.

The subscribers to the old atom rss file need to be redirected to the new one. How to do this?

1) Tell everyone, via email blog posts etc.

2) Using a service such as feeburner to manage your RSS feeds. You only need to tell feedburner of the change. Subscribers to your feedburner managed feed will be unaffected.

3) Apache redirect. I simply used the ‘redirect’ directive to redirect request to the the atom.xml to the new one.

Redirect path/to/old/RSS_feed /path/to/new/RSS_feed 

I chose the third option since I am not using feedburner yet though I believe I will migrate to Feedburner as it provides stats on your subscribers. Nice to know.

 

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