Apache, Typo, and Feedburner
A few weeks ago, I started using FeedBurner and posted a blog entry about how I configured Lighttpd to handle that so it didn’t disrupt everyone that subscribes to my RSS feed. This was working great… until the other day.. when I upgraded to Typo trunk. When I did this, I decided to start using mongrel::cluster and pound. Two days later… I’m noticing that my subscriber count has dropped over thousand people in a day… was it something that I said?
A ha! I was handling the redirect with Lighttpd and had replaced it with Pound.
So, I am now delegating this to Apache.
# Redirect typo feeds to FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^FeedBurner.*$
RewriteRule /xml/(atom|rss|rss20)/feed.xml$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbyOnRails [R=temp,L]
...and all was well again.
UPDATE
The rewrite condition should be !^FeedBurner.*$
not !^FeedBurner$
.
FeedBurner and lighttpd redirects
3 comments Latest by Shane Vitarana Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:14:42 GMT
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.