{"id":278,"date":"2007-03-31T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-03-31T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T18:36:02","slug":"blog-migration-how-to-keep-your-old-rss-feed-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/blog-migration-how-to-keep-your-old-rss-feed-active\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Migration: How to Keep Your Old RSS Feed Active"},"content":{"rendered":"
Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div>

Here’s a problem I ran into when migrating from b2evolution to WordPress: my old RSS feed, which was running through multiple aggregators across the web, suddenly didn’t work anymore<\/strong>. The obvious (and painful) solution was to manually inform every system and person who cares about my blog that I’m now on a new feed. I was already diving into that that task, and planning to let a few systems drop off the wayside in the process.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Jordan M.E.<\/a> (one of my favorite programmers), sent me the easier answer. She told me to use an htaccess redirect, so the old feed becomes<\/em> the new feed. Here’s the code that I added to my root level (http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com) .htaccess file (it should all be on one line):<\/p>\n

Redirect permanent \/blog\/xmlsrv\/rss2.php http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?feed=rss2&<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this example, “\/blog\/xmlsrv\/rss2.php<\/tt>” is the path of my old RSS feed, and “\/blog\/?feed=rss2<\/tt>&<\/tt>” is the path of my new RSS feed. You need the “Redirect permanent<\/tt>” at the beginning to make it work. See it in action. This is the link to my old feed:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/xmlsrv\/rss2.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Check the address bar after you click the link. You’re at my new feed. Voila!<\/p>\n

If you’ve never edited your .htaccess file<\/strong>, it’s not as scary as it sounds. It’s just a text file with a funny file extension that controls some key things about your website. Some people have trouble opening the file because of its strange file name, so here’s a trick (note: you have to be comfortable with FTP to do this):<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Using your FTP client, find the .htaccess<\/strong> file on your webserver and rename it to htaccess.txt<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Download the file.<\/li>\n
  3. Open it in the code editor of your choice.<\/li>\n
  4. Make the changes you want to make (see above) and save it.<\/li>\n
  5. Upload it to your website.<\/li>\n
  6. Change the filename back to .htaccess<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  7. Done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So now, everybody who was reading my old blog can now see my new blog, as though nothing changed.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, they’re probably a little confused because I disappeared for awhile, and their aggregators may now be reloading new copies all my stuff, but hey.\u00c2\u00a0 Close enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Here’s a problem I ran into when migrating from b2evolution to WordPress: my old RSS feed, which was running through multiple aggregators across the web, suddenly didn’t work anymore. The obvious (and painful) solution was to manually inform every system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webmaster_stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}