About this blog

Hi folks, Jamie here.

I'm a web developer at the Ionic Business Systems.
I blog about web development, content management systems, design, user experience and anything else that comes to mind.

Feeds

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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