I migrated some nodes to a new site using 301 redirects. I noticed that the rss icon in my block of the new site says mynewsite.com/rss.xml but when I click the icon, i get a feedbuner page of my old and still existing site. The URL of that http://feeds2.feedburner.com/oldsitearticles.

How do I solve this for my second site? I want it to have its own distinct feed and to reflect new content I create. Also, since the first site is still operating I want it's feed to remain unaffected. Should i go to feedburner and burner a new feed for the new site?

Thanks.

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dave reid
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The best thing to do is for you to go into your FeedBurner account and change the Source URL and name of your existing FeedBurner feed to your new site's information. Then use the FeedBurner module on your new site to redirect requests for rss.xml to the FeedBurner feed.

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Thomasr976 commented

Dave, grateful for fast response. I'm not sure that will work. I really want to retain that existing myoldsite/rss.xml and associated feedburner feed since the first website will continue to operate.

I wish i could just star fresh on the new site and create a brand new fee that will not point toware thd old one. However, if I create one using mynewsite/rss.xml I'm afraid it would go right back to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/oldsitearticles.

Since the new site is not capturing any of the new nodes I create, would it be best to just go into the DB and truncate the data in the aggregator items that references the old site. boy is this confusing.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

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Thomasr976 commented

Here's what I did so far using Views. Changed the path of the feed url to mynewsite/articles/rss.xml. So that path shows all the new nodes promoted to the front page. Changed site information so that home page is mynewsite.com/frontpage instead of mynewsite.com/node.

When i go to the home page the content renders correctly, but the syndication block is still showing mynewsite.com/rss.xml. Any ideas on how to get that icon and path to look at mynewsite/articles/rss.xml? though of path redirect. What do u think? thanks for your help.

Tom

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Thomasr976 commented

David,

Small world. I did what you suggested in #1 and it got me half way there. Then I went into the MYSQL db and edited the Feedburner table. It had a value of myoldsite.com so I changed it to mynewsite.com. Everything works fine on the new site. Thanks for your help.

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Ok. Guess I'll mark this as fixed then!

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Status: Active » Fixed

Forgot to actually mark as fixed. :)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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