301 redirect default feed to new domain

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  chadrcrawford · Member · Jan 16, 2009 at 4:47 pm

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  So we’ve got this feed that looks like /?feed=podcast and we have a good subscriber base that we want to keep. We changed to a new domain name and set up a feedburner feed.

  I want to set up a 301 redirect in the htaccess file to go to the feedburner feed. I don’t want to use feedsmith because it sends all the feeds to the same one, not just a category feed.

  The problem is the query string in the default feed. If we had a different permalink structure (/podcast) it would be simple. For example:

  Redirect 301 /podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/mypodcast

  But there’s something about the structure with the ? mark that just won’t work.

  Are there any creative tricks for this? I’ve tried some RewriteEngine stuff that was supposed to handle query strings but there’s something about WP’s that it doesn’t like.

  I tried to install Redirection plugin, which works in some other way than htaccess, but it’s not working either. If anyone has had a similar problem please tell me how you did this.

  Gracias!

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  chadrcrawford · Member · Jan 17, 2009 at 8:24 pm

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  No one has had the same problem before?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jan 17, 2009 at 8:34 pm

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  Because you haven’t provided a link to your wordpress.COM blog, we have no way of knowing whether you are in the right forum. How about we start with that?

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  jane · Member · Jan 24, 2009 at 8:10 pm

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  I think Vivian is assuming (as I would, based on your post) that you have a self-hosted wordpress.org blog, since wordpress.com does not have plugins or server access. Try over at wordpress.org/support and you’ll find people who have experience with this.