# Custom RSS feed name and locations

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-rss-feed-name-and-locations/380>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [April 12, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-rss-feed-name-and-locations/380 "2020-04-12T01:23:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dduan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/dduan/32/185_2.png) [@dduan](https://zola.discourse.group/u/dduan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-rss-feed-name-and-locations/380/1 "2020-04-12T01:23:43Z")

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Hi

In my progress of migrating my site to Zola, I encountered a blocker: my site’s feed is located at `/some-custom-path/feed.xml` as opposed to the hard-coded (at least in my understanding) `/rss.xml`. I went a head and made [a change to allow customization of the feed’s file name](https://github.com/dduan/zola/commit/b868fa16b77c3162a4534555f51adec5468909df). I noticed in the PR template that I’m supposed to discuss it here 🙂

So here we are. Please share your thoughts on:

1. whether some improvements in the patch is desirable
2. if there are alternatives that I’m not aware of (which is entirely possible)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-rss-feed-name-and-locations/380/2 "2020-04-12T09:14:37Z")

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There are some changes coming for feeds in [https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/986](https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/986) so let’s hold until the first batch of change is merged.  
I don’t know whether this will be supported in Zola itself though, it seems very niche.

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**Author:** ![dduan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/dduan/32/185_2.png) [@dduan](https://zola.discourse.group/u/dduan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-rss-feed-name-and-locations/380/3 "2020-04-12T13:53:10Z")

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I think that PR contains a similar change to the one I proposed. Looking forward to its merging. Thanks for pointing this out!

> [@keats](#):
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> seems very niche

What do you mean by this? I’m going to assume you mean the path of my feed is uncommon. Here’s an attempt to convince you otherwise: try look around popular RSS feeds on the internet 🙂 You’ll find that it’s rarely `/rss.xml`. Examples:

[https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml](https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml)  
[https://blog.rust-lang.org/feed.xml](https://blog.rust-lang.org/feed.xml)