Brand Your Feed

If you prefer to use your own domain to serve your feed instead of Feedoor subdomain, then this document is for you.

This tutorial will show you how to brand your feedoor feed with your own domain

The results: instead of using feedoor subdomain to serve your feed "http://myrss.feedoor.com"

You can use one of the following links

http://myrss.your-domain.com

OR

http://your-domain.com/feed.php



Why?

  • Because you like to show off your doamin instead of Feedoor's
  • You feel safer by serving feeds from your own domain.


What ever your reason is, feedoor provide you 2 different ways to brand your feed even if you don't have permission over your doamin DNS to edit CNAME records.

Let's start branding your feed, it's super easy.



Method 1: Brand With DNS CNAME

For this method you neeed to have some control over your domain to add a CNAME record, don't worry though most Domain registrar offer this feature as default.

Lets say that you want to brand your feedoor feed http://myrss.feedoor.com to http://feed.yourdomain.com


Step one: Add a new CNAME record

Login your domain registrar control panel "Godaddy" for example and add the following CNAME record

cname



Step Two: Specify your new feed location in your feedoor control panel


Login your feedoor account, go to the feed your branded and click on the publish icon

cname


From Publish tools Click on "Brand Your Feed"

cname


Now Enter the new location of your feed.

cname

 

Method 2: Brand With PHP Script

If you can't add CNAME record then you still can use this method, just download this small php script, open it and edit as instructed then upload to your server

After uploading the script to your server go to your feedoor account as step 2 above and specify the new location of your feed

cname