I realise I’m a bit late to this particular party, but I’ve always neglected RSS, partly due to the fact that I don’t really use it myself. Personally, I much prefer reading peoples thoughts, ideas and creations in the context of their own site. Lots of people disagree with me though, and RSS is hugely popular so I’ve finally got round to moving the feed over to Feedburner.

To avoid people having to change their feed URL for the site, I wanted to able to automatically redirect people subscribed to the old RSS to the new Feedburner address.

My old RSS feed was available on:

www.renegadezen.com/rss/?section=blog

My new Feedburner feed is available on

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RenegadeZen-Blog

After a bit of digging around I came across a couple of articles which explained how to set up .htaccess redirects, but most of these were for older versions of Textpattern, which uses a slightly different URL scheme for it’s RSS (I think). I was also having some problems because my feed URL contains a Query String specifying the particular section.

Anyway, after some mucking about, I was able to modify the .htaccess file by appending the following code to the original TXP one:

This seems to have done the trick, and any requests to the old URL should be redirected seamlessly to Feedburner. Phew!

If anyone is having any problems, let me know.