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1. dcairbre
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   hi there,

   I was wondering if anybody knows of some way to disable the automatic refresh upon typing in an "ugly URL" on wordpress. E.g if I allow "pretty permalinks" in the options and then i go to a page like /?category_name=uncategorized then it automatically redirects to /category/uncategorized

   What I want to do is have the like 3 or 4 categories directly after the domain (e.g http://www.example.com/category1 etc...) I can do this fine in mod_rewrite (when ugly URL's are enabled) but since it automatically redirects when you type in an ugly URL, apache gets all confused and throws up a 404. I've also tried putting in /category/category1 but that didn't work either (presumable because /category/category1 is not an actual page) I could easily just enable ugly URL's and it would work fine but I would still like to have my normal posts have "pretty urls"

   Here is the wordpress part of my .htaccess script

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteRule ^category1/?$ /index.php?category_name=category1 [L] (this is bit i've edited) I also tried putting in this (RewriteRule ^category1/?$ /category/category1 [L])
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

   sorry that i've made this all kinda complicated :/

   thanks for anybodies help (:
   /Dara

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