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I have created an XML feed in EE, using a template (type set to XML) and channel entries tag to parse all the data.

For whatever reason the company that is receiving the feed (they are reading the XML document via HTTP) require it to have a .xml file extension appended to the end.

I thought this should be quite a simple one using .htaccess, however the page does not get parsed when I do this.

For simplicity take the following example:

Current URL (all working): http://www.mydomain.com/feed/my_feed/
Desired URL: http://www.mydomain.com/feed/my_feed.xml

I thought the answer would be something along the lines of a .htaccess statement similar to this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?feed/my_feed.xml$ /feed/my_feed/ [L]

However, this just returns a blank screen (nothing has been parsed).

Again for simplicity my template looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE product_catalog_data SYSTEM "http://www.xyz.com/product_catalog_data_1_1.dtd">



     {exp:channel:entries channel="product" disable="pagination|member_data|category_fields" dynamic="no"}

     

          <name>{title}</name>
          <otherdetail>{custom_field}</otherdetail>

     </product>

     {/exp:channel:entries}

If anyone has any bright ideas they fancy sharing it would be most appreciated.

In case any one has any prior experience, this is for an affiliate product feed for Commission junction.

Many thanks in Advance.

It’s not working because Apache’s going to try to process that request with /feed/my_feed/, which is the path to an EE template, and not a file on the server. I suspect you need something like this, which includes index.php:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?feed/my_feed.xml$ /index.php?/feed/my_feed/ [L]

Thanks Nick, that makes sense.

Another really simple way around this without any additional code would be to add an additional segment with a file extension to the end, e.g:

Actual URL: http://www.mydomain.com/feed/my_feed/
Desired URL: http://www.mydomain.com/feed/my_feed/any_name_you_want.xml

In this case, it would default to reading ‘my_feed’.