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How do I change Podcast feed in IWeb ?

I need to change the RSS feed of my podcats from:


Current Feed: http://www.mod-life.net/www/Filmsploitation/feed.xml
New Feed: http://thefilmpodcast.co.uk/?feed=podcast

I believe I can do some sort of redirect to make this happen. Any ideas how?


Thanks

iWeb '08, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Sep 1, 2013 1:57 PM

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Sep 1, 2013 2:26 PM in response to plh007

The method for changing to a new feed involves adding a special tag to the feed as described here:


http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/podcast.html#move


Please make sure you fully read and understand the article before you proceed so that you don't risk painting yourself into a corner (do come back if there is anything at all you are not clear about).


There is a further complication because iWeb won't allow you direct access to the feed, so you will have to edit it outside iWeb.


Your signature says you have iWeb '08 so you must be publishing to a local folder and then FTPing to your server using a separate FTP program.


You will need to locate the feed. The URL you give is wrong: your feed is at


http://www.mod-life.net/Filmsploitation/Podcast/rss.xml


Open this feed in TextEdit in PLAIN TEXT MODE (not Rich Text which is often the default). Add the tag as shown in the page I linked to. Save with the same name to overwrite the original. (TextEdit will offer to add .txt to the filename - don't let it, it must be rss.xml.) FTP your site (or just the feed, making sure to replace the correct one).


Having done this do not upload anything else to the old site or you will over-write the feed. Leave it there for two weeks.


Before you do all this make very sure that the new feed works - subscribe to it manually in iTunes and check everything is in order.

Sep 2, 2013 10:36 AM in response to plh007

Somehow you have managed to get two iTunes Store pages, heaven alone knows how


https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/filmsploitation-film-podcast/id697146536?mt= 2


and


https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/filmsploitation-film-podcast/id464589769?mt= 2


Both are using


http://thefilmpodcast.co.uk/?feed=podcast


for subscribers and the Store pages will use the new feed the next time it checks, so your redirect is working OK. Leave the old feed in place for a couple of weeks (to allow all subscribers a chance to be redirected) and don't do anything to overwrite it.

Sep 3, 2013 10:36 AM in response to plh007

Not having an iOS device I'm not familiar with the Podcasts app, but I believe it works from the Store rather than subscribing like iTunes on a Mac does, so if the Store hasn't yet updated then I supposed the Podcasts app won't either - though I don't know why resbuscribing would change things. Give it a couple of days or so and see what happens.

How do I change Podcast feed in IWeb ?

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