How do I change the URI of my XML feed in Wordpress?

November 18, 2006 10:59 PM

How do I change the URI of my XML feed in Wordpress?

I'm moving an existing podcasting blog from Movable Type to Wordpress and need to keep the URI for the XML file (http://blah.com/index.xml) the same. Unlike MT, WP doesn't appear to be overtly obvious in how this can be accomplished? Please advise.

posted by missed to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Note: URL == Uniform Resource Locator
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:20 PM on November 18, 2006

I meant to add: If you've been searching for "URI" in the documentation, that's why you haven't been able to find anything useful.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:21 PM on November 18, 2006

Response by poster: "A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI that..." (Wikipedia)

semantics aside, do you actually know how I can accomplish my question?
posted by missed at 11:26 PM on November 18, 2006

Just set up a RewriteRule in your .htaccess and 301 redirect the old URL to the new one. All properly written aggregators will recognise a 301 and store the new URL, and even those that aren't properly written will still follow the redirect.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:52 PM on November 18, 2006

And, if you absolutely can't stand for a redirect, leave off the [R] at the end of the rule and Apache will do an internal redirect instead of an external one, and HTTP clients will never know that the redirect exists. But I still say a 301 is the way to go, semantically.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:55 PM on November 18, 2006

Response by poster: since I'm not too familiar with .htaccess files, I started hunting around, and found a WP plugin that should accomplish the same thing:

http://boren.nu/archives/2005/03/29/feed-director-plugin/
posted by missed at 12:08 AM on November 19, 2006