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The Podcast cannot be found at www.example.org/public_html/podcasts/example.xml. I did have this file in the podcasts folder, but I read somewhere that the file has to be in the home directory so I moved it there.
Please help! Thanks, Barbara
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[edited by: werty at 11:20 pm (utc) on April 30, 2009]
[edit reason] Removed URL specifics. Please See TOS #13 [/edit]
if you go to your podcasts directory and remove any MP3:
www.yourdomain.com/podcasts/
you will see a list of all the files, so when a link in your RSS feed is linking to the wrong file name, they will come up as 404 errors:
here are 2 examples:
The "Oh No You Di’int!" seems to be putting an extra " at the end throwing off the link to the MP3.
The Two Parades, is linking to all lowercase, but your filename in the folder has capital letters for parts. In linux those are 2 seperate files. On a windows system it should know it is the same file.
So I would fix the linking taking place there and see if they start to work.
They worked on my computer.
You would want to run the original feed through a feed validator [validator.w3.org] to check for errors.
Our Podcast at ITunes has not been updated for weeks and I cannot figure out why. Can any of you?
I have no insight into the inner workings of Apple's services, but I could venture a guess that if the feed was invalid they simply wouldn't update it.
thanks,
Moin
