mod_rewrite usage

Hi all, I'm getting frustrated trying to integrate WordPress, does anyone know how to use mod_rewrite to change:

Code:

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/section1/article_name.html

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to

Code:

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/section1/article_name/

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so that WordPress can understand it? I have changed the custom permalinks setting to use .html, but it still doesnt recognise it and I get a 404...

I should perhaps say that this is in order to retain existing URLs, and I have tried various things like:

Code:

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RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z-_]*)\.html$ $1/

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Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^section1/([^.]+)/$ section1/$1.html [L]

(If /section1/article_name.html is the original URL.)

RewriteRule ^section1/([^.]+)\.html$ section1/$1/ [L]

(If /section1/article_name/ is the original URL.)

If there's an original .php URL in this, then it won't work due to the infinite loop.

Aha, the King of mod_rewrite!

Your version does rewrite the URL now, but unfortunately, I don't think WordPress is understanding it.

I have this other line in there (created by WordPress):

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Do you know exactly what this is doing? Redirecting everything to index.php?

Yep. Just as I guessed. There's also the original php URL. It goes bonkers if you have code for one URL, then try to change the URL.

It would need to be something like

RewriteRule ^section1/([^.]+)/$ index.php?something=$1 [L]

Original URL, to new URL. Even just adding a 404 redirect from the old mod_rewrite URL to new URL wouldn't work, since there would be the original URL, plus two fake URLs.

Is

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

the only thing you have there? There should be more than that!!! My WordPress blog has 43 index.php RewriteRule lines!! With stuff like

Quote:

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RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^comments/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?&paged=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)/?$ /index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?p=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^author/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /index.php?year=$1 [QSA,L]

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If you chmod the .htaccess file to 777 you can use
wp-admin/options-permalink.php
to make the .htaccess code. Then change the permission back.

hmmm...post your original .php URL of the article_name. I think it might be possible to have a 301 redirect to change one re-write URL to a new one!! I just tested it out, and it's working for me now!!

Example...

Code:

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RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.shtml$ cgi-bin/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ http://www.cmgscc.com/$1/$2.shtml [R=301,L]

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from .html to .shtml!

Well, this is what WP created for me, after I gave it the custom permalink URL using .html:

Code:

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# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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And it didnt work using the .html. I have spent far to long on this, so I am going to use

Code:

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RedirectMatch permanent ^/([^.]+).html$ http://www.domain.com/$1/

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Then WP can handle the 301'ed URL. Thanks for your suggestions Nintendo.