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1. mdisanto
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I'm currently using pretty permalinks in the following format:
   /2009/06/29/sample-post/

   Previously I was using /archives/123.

   When I made the switch, I added a mod_rewrite rule to capture the old format and redirect. The .htaccess appears as follows:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule archives/(.*) /?p=$1 [R]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   Previously this would redirect the /archives/123 format to /?p=123, which would then be converted into the "pretty" format.

   This system broke when I upgraded to 2.7 for reasons I'm unable to figure out. When I browse manually to an /archives/123 url, I get a 404 error, but if I type in /?p=123 then it indeed gets converted to the pretty format. I'd like this to happen automatically obviously.

   Any idea why this stopped working or what I should do instead to achieve the same effect. Thanks!

2. mdisanto
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I tried running the $wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules helper function to generate the rule and it did give me something a bit different than what I had, but still no luck.

   New .htaccess looks like

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^archives/(.*) //?p=$1 [QSA,L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

3. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Try [R,L] instead.

4. mdisanto
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   ah! it worked, thank you!!

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