This morning I actually took the time to update Movable Type to version 3.33 and I updated the template for the Atom feed from version 0.3 to version 1.0 (a long overdue change).
I’m also getting rid of the RSS 1.0 feed (found at /index.rdf) and soon I’ll probably move the Atom feed to /index.xml and retire the RSS feed.
Update: How do you get Redirect directives to work with the rewrite tricks that Movable Type requires in your .htaccess file? My redirect for the RDF index isn’t working at all, I assume because the rewrite rule is eating all of the requests.
October 7, 2006 at 3:49 pm
I was just looking through the new MT dist. I think what you want is a rewrite rule before this catch-all generated by MT::App::CMS.pm:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\$ $mtview_server_url [L,QSA]
If you want the RSS fetches to go to you atom feed, you can preceed that line with:
RewriteRule ^/index.rdf /index.xml [R]
to explicitly redirect.
If you feel comfortable that feed readers are smart enough to prefer Content-type headers over file extensions, you can do this to transparently serve the Atom without a redirect:
RewriteRule ^/index.rdf /real/path/to/index.xml [T=application/atom+xml]
IOW, if the feed reader is retardedly ignoring the “Content-type: application/atom+xml” response header, then this won’t help… and a lot of the non-mainstream feed readers are really retarded