Burn Your Drupal 6 RSS Feeds with FeedBurner & Apache mod_rewrite

Fri, 04/25/2008 - 16:22 — johndbritton

As it stands the Drupal FeedBurner module is not yet ready for the 6.x series. A simple workaround is to redirect Drupal feed requests (default: /rss.xml) to FeedBurner based on the useragent using Apache’s mod_rewrite. The trick is to redirect all requests for the feed, with the exception of those made by the FeedBurner bot, to the Burned feed. You can repeat this for as many feeds as is necessary. Thanks to ckdake for the tip.
Example .htaccess snippet:

# Rewrite feed URL to FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{HTTPUSERAGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteRule rss.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/johndbritton [L]

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Mon, 06/09/2008 - 23:57 — Chris Olstrom (not verified)

Slight Modification Required

Just thought I’d point out that %{HTTPUSERAGENT} is not actually valid. %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} is (I assume) probably what was meant. Easy enough to notice, but readers who are not familiar with mod_rewrite may just copy-and-paste the other code, and wonder why it doesn’t work. ;p

Additionally (don’t take my word on this, I’m just going off the source for the FeedBurner module, which seems to be abandoned), Line 9 of feedburner.module is:

define("FEEDBURNER_DEFAULT_USERAGENTS", "feedburner|feedvalidator");

I interpret this as indicating that FeedBurner may use multiple User Agents.

On a side note: Have you tested this with Drupal 6.2? When I attempt to apply this to my .htaccess file, it doesn’t seem to have any affect. No redirection at all, yet when I apply the same lines (changing only the domains referenced) to the .htaccess of a WordPress installation, it works fine.

My initial thought is that Drupal may be doing some voodoo behind the scenes that I’m not aware of, but that seems a bit odd. Why would PHP muck with something that Apache would normally handle? So I discounted that idea.

Second idea was that maybe mod_rewrite inheriting settings from somewhere else that conflicted with this rewrite. There is another .htaccess in /sites/default/files/.htaccess, but I don’t think that has anything to do with it. The rewrite rules for Clean URLs are in /.htaccess, and those work just fine.

So I’d say I’m somewhat confused at this point. Any thoughts?

Sun, 08/24/2008 - 15:09 — Motorcycle Parts (not verified)

Thanks for your help

this shed alot of light on confusion

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 12:57 — makeover games (not verified)

Sure it does. It saves me

Sure it does. It saves me tons of time trying to figure it all out by myself. *Thumbs up*

Sat, 09/13/2008 - 08:29 — Loans (not verified)

google

What impact does the purchase of FeedBurner had on Drupal rss feeds?

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 12:30 — Cash Gifting (not verified)

yeah i agree with you

Fri, 09/12/2008 - 12:40 — Irish Gifts (not verified)

Couldn’t agree more.

Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for clearing this up

Mon, 09/22/2008 - 21:18 — CNIM Prep Course (not verified)

Awww..

I am still confused.. where is the light? If there are two .htaccess files then there will be problems if you expect them to do different things.

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 20:34 — Black Sarong (not verified)

Wonderful help

yes, another thank you for he help.. it was very beneficial for me to read. = )

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 17:32 — CNIM Exam (not verified)

it was helpful

yes, you’re correct, this was an informational post worth reading.

Wed, 10/08/2008 - 18:30 — Ginna (not verified)

Good Mod

Great modification.
Sarongs

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 22:42 — Home Theater Systems (not verified)

Still confused - but that's not unusual...

I get all twisted around when I try to implement mod_rewrites - this helps a bit but I’d imagine I’ll still mess it up … as usual. ;) Thanks for the info - it won’t hurt to try it I guess…. I’ll just make sure to backup everything first.

Sun, 10/05/2008 - 13:32 — Suzuki Parts (not verified)

I love it!

I love it. Great post

Fri, 08/01/2008 - 18:53 — Anonymous (not verified)

Hopefully I get that module

Hopefully I get that module update finished…soon.

Thu, 08/07/2008 - 16:51 — accounting learner (not verified)

More details

can you explain it in more detail. I am new to this field
thanks

Fri, 08/08/2008 - 10:58 — Custom Term Paper (not verified)

wow

Thanks man for this helping code here. I will try this for sure
Regards
David (term paper help)

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 07:06 — international investing (not verified)

upgrades

Yeah, the new upgrades that keep coming out are just getting sweeter and sweeter. If only Drupal could market itself correctly, there might be more of an international presence.

Fri, 08/08/2008 - 17:58 — Sarong (not verified)

Mod Rewrite

Got to love mod rewrite. We use it for most of our sites to allow php to be handled on html (ext) pages. This looks like you may want to suggest a contribution to drupal - email them to this post.. see what they say.

Sat, 08/16/2008 - 22:31 — Dave (not verified)

FeedBurner module 6.x version

A Drupal 6 version of the module is ready for testing and will have an official 6.x-1.0 release shortly. You can get it at http://drupal.org/node/291786 and please be sure to report any bugs or feature requests!

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 07:44 — las vegas windshields (not verified)

thanks for the update on the new mod.

I know one of my blogs this will come in handy for. Thanks

Kiel

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 17:31 — UK Car Leasing (not verified)

Any idea on Joomla?

I’m looking at Joomla for my car leasing website. I’ve had some issues with using mod_rewrite to send everything to www. wether it has them typed in or not, and also different domains to resolve to the main www. site. I’ve found this has affected other functionality for using friendly URLs within components. Anyone else had similar problems?

Also, do you think Joomla is the way to go, or are Drupal, Typo3 or PHPWebsite better options? Don’t think Wordpress has enough functionality for what I need.

Sat, 08/23/2008 - 19:20 — Getyourlogos (not verified)

Article.

Nice article. Really like it. Keep it up.

Sat, 08/23/2008 - 19:27 — Secured Loan (not verified)

Thanks

Useful article,with the addition of feedburner into the equation, this helps with a variety of tasks

Sat, 08/23/2008 - 19:29 — Bridging Mortgage (not verified)

OK

So you add the patch to include the rss feed to feedburner, for what purpose?

Fri, 09/05/2008 - 21:30 — Bobbiac (not verified)

Altaj

A word spoken is past recalling

Thu, 10/09/2008 - 23:02 — Zygor (not verified)

I also don’t understand

I also don’t understand what is the purpose of including the rss feed to feedburner…

Tue, 08/26/2008 - 05:58 — dress up games (not verified)

I got it up in 5 minutes and

I got it up in 5 minutes and it works flawlessly! Thanks for the tip. Love it.

Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:15 — Course Work (not verified)

20 mins

It took me 20 mins :( am I working slowing ? but happy its working now :)
Regards
Mark(Thesis Help)

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Fri, 09/05/2008 - 20:42 — Invisalign Teen (not verified)

It took me forever!

I know this post is old but had to comment on the legit info this provided for me and my wordpress site. Chris your comment saved me and John I want to kiss you! thanks boys. ;)

Fri, 09/12/2008 - 00:31 — Richard (not verified)

I have a real problem with

I have a real problem with wordpress. I prefer Drupal.

Mon, 09/08/2008 - 14:30 — Adidas Trainers (not verified)

Nice Post !

Enjoyable read there, like your blog.

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Great Info

This information is very good for everyone.
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Fri, 09/12/2008 - 15:00 — Josh Neumann (not verified)

Thanks for the informative

Thanks for the informative article. I always learn a lot from your blog, keep up the posts.

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Yeah, That is the beauty of open source technology and we don’t need to wait all those hired people at companies who do nothing other than creating some garbage.

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Nice post and information. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Nice post and the job is very well done. Thanks for sharing with us.

Thu, 09/18/2008 - 00:17 — Anonymous (not verified)

confused

could you please explain it more? it’s a lil confusing for me.

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Sun, 09/21/2008 - 00:43 — Bill (not verified)

Thanks

Thanks for this fix johndbritton.

Sun, 09/21/2008 - 21:45 — Map Mod v2 (not verified)

When I faced this problem I

When I faced this problem I found another solution but this one is much easier and more effective.

Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:14 — Anastasia (not verified)

great post!.. I am

great post!.. I am definitely coming back to read more.

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:34 — Contract Hire (not verified)

Great work!

Hello, Just found this little gem and got it running and working straight away.

Thanks for the info!.

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:36 — Science fiction and fantasy (not verified)

Thank you

Hello,
Thanks for this really usefull blog, works like a charm.

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 21:27 — Chris Hutcherson (not verified)

Great post. I am still

Great post. I am still working on getting this working, thanks to others for their tips and help. I hope to have this up and running soon. I really do like Drupal and like all the new aspects that are being brought out. Again thanks!!

All the best!

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