"URL cannot be found" prompt from iTunes with my podcast

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"URL cannot be found" prompt from iTunes with my podcast

I published the second episode of a new podcast of mine and iTunes is telling me that the URL cannot be found. When I go to the url, it cannot be found, but the feed is valid. Any suggestions?

http://terranovacast.com/feed/podcast

I did take out the "feed" and went to http://terranovacast.com/podcast and that worked fine.

The first episode uploaded to iTunes just fine and can still be accessed from within iTunes.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Posted on Sep 29, 2011 5:03 AM

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Sep 29, 2011 5:16 AM in response to CoreyfromIL

iTunes is looking for a feed at http://terranovacast.com/feed/podcast . There is no file at this address. The other link you give leads to a directory index which is no use to iTunes.

Until you restore a feed at http://terranovacast.com/feed/podcast your podcast cannot be subscribed to and will not update in the Store when you add further episodes.

Your web page at http://terranovacast.com/ has a 'subscribe to iTunes' link but this simply leads to the same page. It would be best to link to the iTunes URL:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/terra-novacast/id465808122

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Sep 29, 2011 5:48 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Roger - much thanks for your response.

How do I go about restoring the feed?

Also, thank you for pointing out the iTunes icon link. I will repair that immediately.

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Sep 29, 2011 5:51 AM in response to CoreyfromIL

CoreyfromIL wrote:

How do I go about restoring the feed?

I can't answer that: you would have to repeat the process you originally went through to create the feed you submitted to iTunes, using whatever program or service it was that created it. A feed is simply a text file in XML format, and you would need to upload that the the 'feed' folder folder which itself is at root level of your server.

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