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1. sitehatchery
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I need to change the preview link. Right now, it looks like this:
   http://web_site.com/?p=2293&preview=true

   It needs to look like this:
   http://web_site.com/index.php?p=2293&preview=true

   I'm surprised that WordPress has index.php for everything else, but not this. This is important because the actual home page has a .html extension and the site pages point to index.php. So, when I hit the preview link, it just displays the index page with the .html extension.

   I've looked into adding a hook for preview_post_link, but I don't know how to do this. With extensive searches on Google, I've come short of an answer. I want to do this in a way that's not a hack and where the changes won't be overwritten with subsequent updates.

   I've looked into ways of doing this with .htaccess url rewriting, but after a couple of hours working at it, I can't figure this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

2. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Change the permalink settings as you like and add this code in htaccess:

   # BEGIN WordPress

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   # END WordPress

   Now, check with your old and new posts..

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

3. sitehatchery
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This is the default .htaccess code for WordPress. This works for everything else, but it's just that preview link which doesn't have index.php at the end of it.

4. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Default code should be:

   # BEGIN WordPress

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

   And I have provided edit one:

   # BEGIN WordPress

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   Check and compare and have a try tro add it..

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

5. sitehatchery
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok, I've figured this out:

   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page_id=(.*)&preview=true
   RewriteRule (.*) /index.php?page_id=%1 [R=301,L]

6. dwcouch
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Can this be used to fix this issue? Preview Post fails on Reverse Proxy Redirect

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