Title: Redirection/Modifying htaccess
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Redirection/Modifying htaccess
* Resolved [phileplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phileplanet/)
* (@phileplanet)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/)
* I’ve searched the site but I can’t find a clear answer to this.
* What is the proper way to edit the WP .htaccess file without messing up WP? Meaning
do I edit inside “# BEGIN WordPress” & “# END WordPress”, after, before…
* I basically want to add mod_rewrite rules to 301 redirect pages from my old site
to posts in WP. I’ve tried three plugins but they don’t seem to work well.
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* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435689)
* I think you can add your stuff either above the # BEGIN WordPress or below #
END WordPress. Don’t leave the .htaccess writeable once you’ve edited though!
* Thread Starter [phileplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phileplanet/)
* (@phileplanet)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435702)
* Okay that doesn’t mess up WP, which is good, but my redirects don’t seem to do
anything.
* Here is the htaccess:
`# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine
On RewriteBase /area51blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{
REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /area51blog/index.php [L]
* # END WordPress
* RewriteRule ^sites.php$ /links/ [R=301]
* Is there something wrong?
* [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
* (@viper007bond)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435746)
* You need to add it above the WordPress rules because WordPress will hijack pretty
much everything that isn’t a real folder or file or whatnot. 😉
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435748)
* Ah, didn’t realize that. Thanks for that info, Viper!
* [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
* (@viper007bond)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435752)
* I believe these three lines say that if it isn’t a real file or directory, then
give the URL to WordPress’ index.php file:
* `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
area51blog/index.php [L]
* So if you want to avoid that, you gotta handle it before it gets given to WordPress.
🙂
* > Don’t leave the .htaccess writeable once you’ve edited though!
* For security or so that WordPress won’t overwrite it? If it’s the latter, then
there’s no need to worry. That’s the whole point of the `# BEGIN WordPress` and`#
END WordPress`. When WordPress regenerates it’s rules, it only replaces the stuff
inbetween those two lines. So as long as your custom stuff is outside of them,
they won’t be touched. 😉
* [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
* (@vkaryl)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435762)
* For security….
* Thread Starter [phileplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phileplanet/)
* (@phileplanet)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435767)
* Sorry but it’s still having no effect.
Here’s the new .htaccess: `RewriteEngine
on RewriteRule ^links.php$ /links/ [R=301]
* # BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /area51blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule./
area51blog/index.php [L]
* # END WordPress
* [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
* (@viper007bond)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435802)
* `RewriteRule ^links.php?$ /links/ [QSA,L]`
* Thread Starter [phileplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phileplanet/)
* (@phileplanet)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-435965)
* Sorry Viper007Bond but I wanted it to redirect links.php to /links/, not rewrite.
* I meant that I was using mod_rewrite to redirect since most plugins didn’t really
work well for me.
* [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
* (@viper007bond)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-436129)
* Well I’m a `mod_rewrite` idiot, so I usually just use the full URL instead then:
* `RewriteRule ^links.php?$ http://yoursite.com/links/ [QSA,L]`
* Thread Starter [phileplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phileplanet/)
* (@phileplanet)
* [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirectionmodifying-htaccess/#post-436365)
* Okay I haven’t found an htaccess solution to this so what I am going to do is
include a PHP script in the 404 template.
* The script basically sees takes the URL of the 404, and if it matches a location
in my redirects, it goes to the new location.
* I hope to make this a plugin with a user interface so that others can benefit
from it.
* Thanks for your help.
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