I’m using a shared hosting account for my web site. I have no control over the file types (extensions) that are handled by ASP.NET — only the standard file extensions (ASPX, ASMX, etc.) are supported. By request, I was asked to make my old RSS and Atom XML file feeds up to date with my new blog posts. During the transitions I’ve made, I may have lost some subscribers as I hadn’t kept them up to date as much as I would have liked. <\/p>\n
So, with a wave of the magic ASP.NET wand and a little 404 magic, the two XML files are now serving up content from my new WordPress installation. On my web host, I can modify what pages handle 404 web server errors (file not found). I changed the setting to point to a new ASPX file, appropriately named, 404.aspx. Here’s what it contains:<\/p>\n
<%<\/span>@ <\/span>Page <\/span>Language<\/span>=\"C#\" <\/span>%>\n<%\n<\/span> string <\/span>qstr = HttpUtility<\/span>.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString.ToString());\n\n if <\/span>(qstr.Contains(\"index.xml\"<\/span>) || qstr.Contains(\"atom.xml\"<\/span>))\n {\n string <\/span>movedTo = \"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/wiredprairie\"<\/span>;\n Response.Status = \"301 Moved Permanently\"<\/span>;\n Response.AddHeader(\"Location\"<\/span>, movedTo);\n Response.End();\n\n return<\/span>;\n }\n\n Response.Status = \"404 Not Found\"<\/span>; \n Response.End();\n\n return<\/span>;\n%><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/a>I grab the query string which minimally contains the requested Url, and if it’s either atom.xml or index.xml, I redirect to the FeedBurner location for the RSS<\/a> feed. If it wasn’t one of those files, I just return a 404 error and quit (as I don’t have a custom 404 page developed).<\/p>\nOf course, with a bit more robust coding, this could handle a wider variety of cases and redirect to far more web pages. Or, you can just point to my RSS feed. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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