From FeedBurner To Google: MyBrand And A 404 Error

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
at 10:21pm


UPDATE #2: Okay, set the subdomain back to eringpwnsgmail.feedproxy.ghs.google.com, and it’s working now. Strange, that did not work for me last night. Maybe Google has fixed it?
UPDATE: At the time of posting, the solution below worked. But now for some reason, it is not. I am looking into it.

I recently logged on to FeedBurner and what do you know, Google acquired them. I had heard the news awhile back, but never saw the need to check in, as my feed was working properly. However, curiosity got the best of me and I decided to check it out.

Everything was pretty simple. The interface had not changed much, simply a new web address. I then proceeded to move my feeds to Google’s servers. That was pretty easy as well, just a few clicks.

My problems started when I remembered that I have feeds.eddieringle.com setup as a CNAME to the FeedBurner servers, so I found the MyBrand page in my FeedBurner account. I followed the directions and set my domain’s DNS settings so that they point to eringpwnsgmail.feedproxy.ghs.google.com. I waited and because I trusted that Google knew what they were doing, I let it sit.

Well, when I went to check feeds.eddieringle.com, I got a nice big 404. I started investigating. No one seemed to have a solution, so I did what was obvious to me and I found the domain that worked. http://feedproxy.google.com/ is basically what http://feeds.feedburner.com/ was. I then deleted the DNS setting I had set previously and replaced it so that feeds.eddieringle.com pointed to feedproxy.google.com, and what do you know?

http://feeds.eddieringle.com/EddieRingle

So there you have it, if the settings Google provides you with on the FeedBurner site do not work, try my solution. After all, I subscribe to a few blogs out there, and I don’t want that stream of new posts to stop. :)

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8 Comments

Karol Zalewski

November 21st, 2008
at 8:09am

I have the same problem. I am sorry, but your solution does not work :/ Check your RSS feed again.

Jack Lail

November 26th, 2008
at 2:00pm

I have this same problem. What is your CNAME entry set to at this point, the address that includes a form of your email or just the feedproxy address? Kind of a nutty process from what I’ve read on Feedburner Google Groups.

Haacked

December 10th, 2008
at 12:57pm

Google really screwed this one up. I had the same problem and just tried out your fix. Hopefully it works as soon as my DNS propagates.

missingtoof

January 20th, 2009
at 2:10am

Thanks for this! I was pulling my hair out for a long time and I think you’ve found my problem too.

You might want to hardcode that MyBrand URL in your WordPress header so it clicking the RSS in your hearder bar doesn’t sign people up with the old address.

Eddie

January 20th, 2009
at 7:59am

Yeah, I need to. I’ve been making a lot of changes to WicketPixie, and at one point I think the topbar was reverted to the original. Thanks for looking around though. ;)

Medros

January 21st, 2009
at 2:28pm

I am finding the same issue, I changed to Google, did the mybrand update, and got 404s. I changed the DNS as per this post, and now I get a Google 404 instead of a nondescript one. I changed back to the original one, and I am waiting to see if anything changed.

Tim

January 23rd, 2009
at 11:46am

I’m experiencing this too. I’ve decided to give it 24 hours like the site says, although the CNAME’s already propagated, and I can’t imagine an update on their end taking that long. Boo, Google.

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