I've been struggling to create a .htaccess 301 redirect for an rss
feed from a wordpress blog that is used for a podcast. Essentially
the situation is that I changed the domain name of my podcast and have
been unable to get iTunes to update the rss feed to the new rss feed
at the new domain. There are 2 methods for changing the feed
location: 1) to add a new-feed-url tag to the rss feed 2) to add a
301 redirect to point the old feed url to the new feed url. Apple
recommends doing both, but as of yet I have only tried the first
option. Its been about 6 months and iTunes has failed to notice the
new-feed-url tag in the feed so I thought I should add a 301 redirect
in addition in order to get iTunes to update. If it matters I am
using the latest release of wordpress and podpress plugin, Apache 2
and Gentoo in a shared hosting environment where I have root access to
the entire server.
I need http://www.djaradio.com/?feed=rss2 to redirect to
http://www.discjockeyamerica.com/?feed=podcast
Currently my .htaccess file looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Redirect 301 /?feed=rss2 http://www.discjockeyamerica.com/?feed=podcast
Redirect 301 /arn.html http://www.discjockeyamerica.com/?feed=podcast
The arn.html redirect is just there for testing, but notice that it
does properly redirect as expected while the /?feed=rss2 redirect does
not.
I tried escaping the unusual characters as below:
Redirect 301 /%3ffeed%3drss2 http://www.discjockeyamerica.com/?feed=podcast
This didn't work though.
The wordpress forums have lots of similar posts but nothing for this
specific problem, and most questions of this nature have gone
unanswered. I have posted to the podpress plugin forum, but think
this might be a bit outside the expertise found at that forum. So far
most help I have received has been through google searches.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
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