I decided I wanted to start using FeedBurner on my blog to see how many readers I actually have. One of the things I didn’t want to have to do, though, was to make both of my readers switch the URL of my feed, so I set up this simple mod_rewrite directive in my main .htaccess folder:
RewriteRule ^feed[/]?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Eightfivethree [L]
Now, any request for /feed will redirect to my feedburner feed.
Another benefit of setting up this rewrite, is that I can give out the URL to my domain, but get FeedBurner to gather the stats for me.
UPDATE: FeedBurner is taking hours to update my feed, not the 30 minutes they claim. I even tried pinging their service to update my feed without any luck. So, as easily as I put the RewriteRule in, I took it out. Now everyone is pointing back the RSS feed on my server and gets my posts as soon as I write them. No waiting, no hassle.