#1 — Alexander

Glad I was able to help, thanks for the mention too. :)

#2 — shalako

Thanks for this; been looking for a method as all the plugins I have tried are unreliable.

However, I found that after implementing the method it broke my feedburner feeds. What am I doing wrong?

There was a problem retrieving the feed: com.burningdoor.rsspp.resource.impl.HttpConnectionException: Error getting URL: 400 - Recursive feed redirection error: Are requests for your ‘Original Feed’ address — the feed that FeedBurner is checking for updates — being redirected to your FeedBurner feed? Make sure your Original Feed is provided from a web address that isn’t redirected to FeedBurner.

#3 — Web Design Sussex

Thankyou for this article, I finally got my feeds redirecting. I had some major hasslestrying to enable mod_rewrite on my server but got there eventually. Happy new year.

#4 — Brass Engraved

Thankyou very much for this, worked like a dream!

#5 — Friedbeef

I had trouble getting Feedsmith to work - thanks so much for posting this up! works perfectly (once I remembered to put the code BEFORE my permalinks code :)) Brilliant stuff!

#6 — Josh

First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading here today. I will make sure i visit this site more often so i can learn more.

#7 — UK Web Designer Directory

Thanks for this writeup, your method worked almost perfectly except a few modifications to htaccess were required.

#9 — Mo

Thanks for this article. But is a 302 really the best way or practical?

#11 — Harsha

thanx for the tutorial.. when i try to add feeds of the category in the feed burner i am getting the following error

Your feed filesize is larger than 512K. You need to reduce its size in order for FeedBurner to process it. Tips for controlling feed file size with Blogger can be found in Tech Tips on FeedBurner Forums, our support site.

#13 — Harsha

@Jeff

The funny part is the main feed is valid not the category one. And worst part is i have a max of 5 posts in that category.

#14 — david

Did not work for me whatsoever, in fact it broke my main feed redirect using feedsmith. Went back to original htaccess and had to deactivate then reactivate the feedsmith plugin to get the redirect working again. Could the plugin have caused a conflict so this failed? Deleted feedsmith plugin, somehow my main feed is still redirecting to feedburner and I have no idea how! htaccess has no feed redirects, no feedsmith plugin, but it still redirects, is the redirect cached somewhere? Guess I’ll wait to see if it eventually stops redirecting, then I’ll try to update htaccess again.

#15 — david

got all of them working except for one now, no end of tinkering. i suspect i had issues because i starting changing the feedburner url’s before putting in the redirect rules, and possibly feedburner hadn’t updated yet, so when it tried to grab the original feed it got a redirect or something, i’d recommend not doing this. in the end i deleted feedsmith plugin, started with a fresh htaccess, and now like i said, all feeds are redirecting appropriately except for one category feed. i’ve check it many times and the code is correct, no idea why this one refuses to redirect. hopefully it’s a caching issue and will resolve itself, will post again.

#16 — david

finally working for everything! removed all redirection, resynced feedburner, waited 10 minutes, put redirection back into htaccess, works fine now. thanks for the post!!

#18 — david

Had to come back and post again, I realized that when I implement these rules my feedburner feeds stop updating. My best guess is that when feedburner requests the original xml, it is forwarded to the feedburner feed, and so there is a loop created. I’m guessing this code is intended to tell the feedburner service not to follow the redirect?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]

But perhaps it’s not working for me for some reason? It would explain the difficulties I had at the beginning as well. But could there be some other reason for this not working? I can’t think of anything else.

Here’s an example of my htaccess, please let me know if you see anything wrong. Thank you!!!

# BEGIN WordPress
# Redirect Wordpress Category Feeds to Feedburner
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
   RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedname [L,NC,R=302]
   RewriteRule ^category/category-name/feed/?.*$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/feed-name [L,NC,R=302]

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

#19 — david

dont bother with what i went through :)

use this plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-plugin/

it can redirect category feed automatically.

cheers!

#21 — david

not exactly sure i understand what the permalink issue would be, but the plugin has the option of redirecting all categories to one url, or of appending category name to the url, so like FEEDBURNERURL_categoryname which allows you to create category feeds automatically

#23 — Mobile tracker

Great, I have been learning how to use .htaccess and regular expression for sometime now, thanks for the example, really helpfull.

#24 — Satya Prakash

Same with me. I am getting recursive redirection error

#25 — Juana

Hi Jeff -

Thanks for your post. It worked. I do have q: Bloglines is still showing the feed as empty although feedburner has all of my posts. Would you know how I can fix that? I have to be doing something wrong. I emailed Bloglines but so far 3 biz days and no answer. Argh!

Thanks in advance!

Juana

#26 — Satya Prakash

These all are proved to be a waste of time. You can read my post here: http://www.satya-weblog.com/2010/02/redirect-wordpress-feed-url-feedburner.html.
Better to just use feedsmith plugin and use the technique similar to I have used. and mentioned in the post for which link given.

#28 — Nick M

Thank you so much for this! It cured a huge panic-induced headache! And thanks for specifying that the redirect code has to go BEFORE the default Wordpress permalink rules. This is vital, as it doesn’t work when the redirect code is placed after permalink rules.