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Today I'm going to try to make something work that may be hard I have a domain, let's call it domain-x.org, and I want it to return a feed. The content-type has to be text/xml and the request must return XML. Since it's not a sub-domain, a CNAME will not be possible. Which means we will not be able to use Amazon S3, which is a real shame because in every other way it's the perfect way to do it, from a scaling and cost standpoint. Pretty sure I'm going to have to use Apache. And since I don't have a Linux server lying around, it's going to have to be Apache/Windows. This isn't just an idle exercise, we need to solve this problem in a way that can be easily replicated for lots of users, without them having to configure anything as low-level as Apache or S3. This is a feature for true end-users. So in the next step I will need that REST-programmable DNS that I've been talking about. And it was very straightforward. 1. I created a folder on my Apache server called davelinks.com. 2. Went to my registrar and pointed it at the Apache server. 3. Added a .htaccess file in the folder with a single line: 4. Added a callback when my feed is built that in addition to writing it to the usual deeply-nested place on S3, also writes it to the top level of the folder I created in step 1. The file is of course called rss.xml. 5. http://davelinks.com/ works. |
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