# Can We Control Where Atom Feed Gets Generated?

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/can-we-control-where-atom-feed-gets-generated/3248>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/can-we-control-where-atom-feed-gets-generated/3248 "2019-08-26T23:01:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![commonsguy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/commonsguy/32/1855_2.png) [@commonsguy](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/commonsguy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/can-we-control-where-atom-feed-gets-generated/3248/1 "2019-08-26T23:01:58Z")

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The Atom feed for a Jeklyll 4.0.0 site with posts in `_posts/` winds up as `feed.xml` in the site root. Can I control where that goes? Since it is purely generated, and there is no file with front matter, I don’t see how I can use a `permalink` to control where it winds up, gets named, etc.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/can-we-control-where-atom-feed-gets-generated/3248/2 "2019-08-27T05:41:13Z")

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Yes, you can.  
Simply configure the `feed.path` key in your config file:

```auto
feed:
  path: path/to/my_feed.xml

```

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**Author:** ![commonsguy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/commonsguy/32/1855_2.png) [@commonsguy](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/commonsguy)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/can-we-control-where-atom-feed-gets-generated/3248/3 "2019-08-27T12:28:16Z")

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That works great! Thanks!

BTW, is this in the documentation somewhere?

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**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/can-we-control-where-atom-feed-gets-generated/3248/4 "2019-08-27T12:40:00Z")

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> [@commonsguy](#):
>
> is this in the documentation somewhere?

Yes: [GitHub - jekyll/jekyll-feed: 📝 A Jekyll plugin to generate an Atom (RSS-like) feed of your Jekyll posts](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed#already-have-a-feed-path)