FeedBurner is Go?

I’ve set up FeedBurner on the rss feeds to feed my stats-loving demons. If I set up my .htaccess file correctly, no one should notice a thing. I hope?

If for some reason things are broken, leave me a comment and I’ll try to fix it up.

For my own reference, or for anyone else who’s interested, there were two steps (aside from registering with FeedBurner in the first place) I had to do to get things working:

  1. I had to change the Permalink structure used by WordPress, as described here. Basically, go to Options>Permalinks and set up a custom link structure with /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ as the format. This may constitute a bit of cargo-cult configuration on my part, as I’m not really clear why this bit is necessary.
  2. I added some directives to my .htaccess file that redirect all requests for my feed, except those from FeedBurner itself, to FeedBurner’s site. I followed the directions from here, and the section I added looks like:
    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/feed.gif$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://myfeedburnerfeed [L,R=302]

    I can’t honestly say I know half of what that means either, but I at least understand the gist of it.

It occurs to me that I have no idea what’s going on with the comments feed, and I might need to do some more work on that, but hopefully I’ve covered everything for the main feed.

Update:Comments seem fine… they’re just not “burned”.

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  1. Hey everything seems to be working for ya..

    One thing you could do is create a 2nd burned feedburner feed for your /comments/feed/ feed.

    Thats what I did.. Then your .htaccess will look like this:


    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?(feed|comments) [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://feedburnerURLforfeed [L,R=302,NC]
    RewriteRule ^comments/?.*$ http://feedburnerURLforcomments [L,R=302,NC]

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