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1. erikcw
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I imported a bunch of content into WP from my old CMS. Everything works fine when I have permalinks off. However when I turn them on the problems start - basically every permalink gives me a 404.

   Here is the link structure I have setup - I'ved used this on another blog and it works fine - so I don't know what the deal is.

   /%category%/%postname%.%post_id%.html

   I have one regular post (non-import), and it seems to work. So perhaps this is something to do with how I did the import (homegrown script). Are there any things I should watch out for? Maybe something wrong with a the slug?

   Here is a sample database entry from the import:
   ID post_author post_date post_date_gmt post_content post_title post_category post_excerpt post_status comment_status ping_status post_password post_name to_ping pinged post_modified post_modified_gmt post_content_filtered post_parent guid menu_order
   Edit Delete 238 1 2005-10-30 16:20:01 2005-10-30 20:20:01 <b>How to Choose a Good Car Tint Shop</b><br>&n... How to Choose a Good Car Tint Shop 0 Most metropolitan areas have an abundance of tint ... publish open open How-to-Choose-a-Good-Car-Tint-Shop 2005-10-29 11:47:43 2005-10-29 15:47:43 0 /?p=1 0

   Any ideas?

   Thanks!
   Erik

2. podz
   Support Maven
   Posted 4 years ago #

   At the very least, the %post_id%.html will kill it off as WP generates files using php not code that produces .html files.
   Are you concerned about losing pages in saech engines ?

3. erikcw
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks for your response.

   Yea, I am trying to make it as search engine friendly as possible.

   Actually, the %post_id%.html shouldn't make a difference since it is really just an .htaccess regular expression. The server still treats it like a .php (behind the scenes). (I have the same setup working on another WP blog)

   And also it works with the post I made in WP, it just seems to be the posts I imported that are causing trouble. Very strange!

   Any other ideas?

4. erikcw
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Well I think I found the problem.

   There appears to be a bug in the way WP sets up the rewrite regular expressions in .htaccess.

   "." is considered a special character in regular expressions. I put an escape "\" before the "." and it started working properly!

   Wierd!

   Thanks for your help!
   Erik

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