Redirect RSS feeds

[mwe]

We are in the process of migrating our RSS feeds over to Feedburner. All of the Feedburner profiles have been established, but since our feeds have been around for over a year already, we need to establish some redirects for the old URLs.

Each pair in the list below contains the original file location (on our old server) and the new Feedburner URL.

Would it be possible to setup a 301 redirect for each of these to point to the new Feedburner URL?

Example:
From here:
[http://www.mydomain.com] <-- Old domain name address
/podcasts/2005/channels/news_opinion/news.xml

To here:
http://feeds.mynewsite.com/owner/ofGU

Can this even be done with mod_rewrite? There server doesn't allow for .htaccess use, so that is not an option. Whatever the solution would be, it has to be handled through a virthost.conf file structure.

Here is the actual list of hard files to new locations that need to be converted:

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/podcasts/2005/channels/news_opinion/news.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomain/ofGU

/podcasts/2005/channels/entertainment/Entertainment.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/Entertainment-mydomaincom

/podcasts/2005/channels/podrods/podrods.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomain/WXgM

/podcasts/2005/channels/community/community.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/Community-mydomaincom

/podcasts/2005/channels/sports/sports.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/Sports-mydomaincom

/rssfeed/most_popular.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomMostPopularStories

/rssfeed/news.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomNews

/rssfeed/business.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomBusiness

/rssfeed/georgia.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomGeorgiaNews

/rssfeed/sports.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomSports

/rssfeed/sportscolumnists.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomSportsColumnists

/rssfeed/colfsu.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomFsuFootball

/rssfeed/coluf.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomUfFootball

/rssfeed/coluga.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomUgaFootball

/rssfeed/highschool.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomPrepSports

/rssfeed/spgolf.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomGolfNews

/rssfeed/spoutdoors.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomOutdoorsNews

/rssfeed/spsuns.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincommydomainSuns

/rssfeed/spcudas.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincommydomainBarracudas

/rssfeed/collegebasketball.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomCollegeBasketball

/rssfeed/neweathersbee.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomFirstCoastChronicles

/rssfeed/opinion.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomOpinion

/rssfeed/opinioncols.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomOpinionColumnists

/rssfeed/lifestyles.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomLifestyles

/rssfeed/entcolumnists.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomEntertainmentColumnists

/rssfeed/movies.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomMovies

/rssfeed/wheels.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomWheels

/rssfeed/webwatch.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomWebWatch

/rssfeed/traffic.xml
http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomaincomTraffic


[richardk]

You can use Redirect (or mod_rewrite, but you don't need to use mod_rewrite for this) in the virthost.conf file. There's probably a <VirtualHost> for your domain which you should put the redirects in

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Redirect 301 /podcasts/2005/channels/news_opinion/news.xml http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomain/ofGU
Redirect 301 /podcasts/2005/channels/entertainment/Entertainment.xml http://feeds.mydomain.com/Entertainment-mydomaincom
# etc.

[mwe]

You can use Redirect (or mod_rewrite, but you don't need to use mod_rewrite for this) in the virthost.conf file. There's probably a <VirtualHost> for your domain which you should put the redirects in

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Redirect 301 /podcasts/2005/channels/news_opinion/news.xml http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomain/ofGU
Redirect 301 /podcasts/2005/channels/entertainment/Entertainment.xml http://feeds.mydomain.com/Entertainment-mydomaincom
# etc.

There is a misunderstanding, so I will clarify.

The old RSS feed points to:

http://www.mysite.com/rssfeed/most_popular.xml

And they want it to point to:

http://feeds.mydomain.com/mydomain/WXgM

Neither site is actually running from this Apache server as all it handles is redirects in its virthost.conf file.

-- Michael

[richardk]

I still don't get it. What is the URL in the link/user's address bar? Is it a visible redirect or an internal/hidden one? Is it all on the same server?