desert-rat

In this example, I doubt it because there’s a CNAME in the DNS setup that equates /cPanel to :8082 or whatever port it is attached to. DNS mappings take priority over .htaccess mappings.

But in general, you’re probably right.

I’m not trying to create a taxonomy. I do not want or need custom page templates. I don’t even need custom post types.

I’m simply trying to find a plugin that comes close to doing what this guy describes:

http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/passing-get-query-string-parameters-in-wordpress-url/comment-page-1/

His approach requires you to modify the theme’s function.php file and some other theme-specific stuff. However, putting this logic into a plugin would let you do this with any theme.

I’ve searched around, and the only plugins I can find that do URL rewriting are SEO plugins and those that help you manage taxonomies.

Simply put, if I have a URL like this:

mydomain.com/product/scissors

It gets rewritten as something like this:

mydomain.com/product?prod_type=scissors

Then I can have a Page at:

mydomain.com/product

that can pick up the last term “scissors” in a variable like {prod_type} and run a query on it like this:

select * from products where prod_type = “{prod_type}”

(The syntax “{xyz}” is hypothetical. It’s just an example.)

and the page would actually run the query:

select * from products where prod_type = “scissors”

There are plenty of places within WordPress that do URL rewriting, like permalinks.

There are plenty of plugins that do this exact kind of substitution in regular Pages.

I’m simply looking for a way to rewrite the URL, assigning the last field to a (fixed) variable, and being able to access that variable and its value within a Page.

Maybe there’s a plugin that does exactly this. But taxonomies are the closest things I’ve found to doing this so far.

-David

Ooops….

Turned out the account was over-quota for disk space. I increased the amount of disk space allocated to the account and everything worked fine.

I hope this helps others who might run into this strange situation.

-David