Comments on: HOWTO use FeedBurner without giving up control

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:03:16 +0000

I think I found a simple work-around to RWT’s problem.

My host uses Apache 1.3.33. I made a redirect in cpanel from /wp-rss2.php to my feedburner feed.

To avoid feedburner getting caught up by the redirect, I just pointed it to http://www.mysite.com/?feed=rss2

Seems to be working like a charm.

Here’s what cpanel inserted into my .htaccess:
RedirectMatch temp ^/wp-rss2.php$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/insertfeedname

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mundell.org » Not leaving well enough alone — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:07:52 +0000

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By: RWT

RWT — Fri, 20 May 2005 22:12:40 +0000

Yes they use mod_rewrite. Put the version of Apache is 1.3.33. The non-index.php way of doing permalinks does not seem to work with any version of Apache under 2.0.

By: Carrick

Carrick — Fri, 20 May 2005 22:07:39 +0000

Hmm, I thought using the index.php prefix was for situations where you don’t have mod_rewrite? Are you sure your host uses mod_rewrite? It’s a prerequisite for the redirects above to work, and I mentioned that in the second paragraph.

I’m not quite sure how to solve your particular problem.

By: RWT

RWT — Fri, 20 May 2005 21:18:13 +0000

Oh my wordpress feed then is:

http://www.mysite.com/index.php/feed/

By: RWT

RWT — Fri, 20 May 2005 21:16:15 +0000

OK I found part of my problem. My permalinks use “index.php”. Thus, WordPress does not overwrite any .htaccess file. WordPress doesnt use the file if permalinks are set up as such. But my question is this, given that is the case what would be the correct way to formet the .htaccess to redirect for Feedburner? I am not that adept at writing .htaccess but I came up with the following, which is essentially what you have above, but I did include it within the WordPress #’s. Whats wrong?

Options All -Indexes

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /rwt/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/myfeed [R,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/myfeed [R,L]
# END WordPress

By: Carrick

Carrick — Thu, 19 May 2005 22:56:08 +0000

One thing I’ve noticed is that WordPress will re-write your .htaccess file whenever you do something like add or edit a “page.” It does it at other times, too, which I haven’t quite figured out. It’s rather annoying to say the least, especially when it comes to the feed rewrites. What I do to compensate is keep a copy of my .htaccess for those times when WP feels the need to think for me. You can also keep the rewrite rules above in a handy text file to add to whatever new .htaccess rules WP devises for your particular setup. There’s probably a way to modify WP to get it to output the above rewrite rules automatically. I haven’t looked into that yet.

By: RWT

RWT — Thu, 19 May 2005 22:22:09 +0000

I tried to employ your method on my site but it does not redirect. I also tried looking at your feeds and they come back as regular XML files, they do not redirect to Feedburner feeds. Did you turn the redirection off or is there a problem?

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By: Brainwidth » Up and Running?

Brainwidth » Up and Running? — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:32:23 +0000

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