Robby on Rails: FeedBurner and lighttpd redirects

FeedBurner and lighttpd redirects

Robby Russell — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:28:00 -0500

I haven’t been using feedburner to track counts of subscribers to my feed. I didn’t want to tell everyone to switch their feed URL… so I found this solution for handling this transition through Lighttpd.

First, make sure you are requiring the mod_redirect module.

server.modules              = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_compress", "mod_redirect" )

Then add the following… to your lighty configuration.


$HTTP["useragent"] !~ "FeedBurner" {
  url.redirect = (
    "/xml/rss/feed.xml" => "http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbyOnRails",  
    "/xml/rss20/feed.xml" => "http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbyOnRails",
    "/xml/atom/feed.xml" => "http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbyOnRails" 
  )
}

Works like a charm!

Thanks to Damien Tanner for putting me on the right path.

"FeedBurner and lighttpd redirects" by Shane Vitarana

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:14:42 -0500

I answered my own question [here](http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/08/27/feedburner-integration-in-typo).

"FeedBurner and lighttpd redirects" by Shane Vitarana

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:43:42 -0500

Sweet. I like the DRY approach Josh. I wonder if there is something similar for the RedirectPermanent Apache directive.

"FeedBurner and lighttpd redirects" by Josh Knowles

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:20:33 -0500

If you want to ‘DRY’ this up a bit try the following:

url.redirect = (”/xml/(atom|rss|rss20)/feed.xml” => “http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbyOnRails”)