diff --git a/wp-comments.php b/wp-comments.php
index b04178d8a9..9c45b41ca6 100644
--- a/wp-comments.php
+++ b/wp-comments.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 <h2 id="comments">Comments</h2>
 
-<p><a href="<?php echo $siteurl; ?>/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=<?php echo $id; ?>"><abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> feed for comments on this post.</a></p>
+<p><?php comments_rss_link('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> feed for comments on this post.'); ?></p>
 
 <?php if ('open' == $post->ping_status) { ?>
 <p>The <acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym> to TrackBack this entry is: <em><?php trackback_url() ?></em></p>
diff --git a/wp-includes/template-functions.php b/wp-includes/template-functions.php
index d691151648..c10918e709 100644
--- a/wp-includes/template-functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/template-functions.php
@@ -1757,8 +1757,8 @@ function comment_time($d='') {
 
 function comments_rss_link($link_text='Comments RSS', $commentsrssfilename = 'wp-commentsrss2.php') {
 	global $id;
-	global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator;
-	$url = $commentsrssfilename.$querystring_start.'p'.$querystring_equal.$id;
+	global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator, $siteurl;
+	$url = $siteurl.'/'.$commentsrssfilename.$querystring_start.'p'.$querystring_equal.$id;
 	$url = '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$link_text.'</a>';
 	echo $url;
 }