URI Rewriting Alongside WordPress’ PermaLinks

For the sake of simplicity and logic I decided to follow the WordPress format but still stumbled across some problems. After some rookie errors I thought I would share this as it was one of those things I just kept missing!

Getting Along

Below is what WordPress wrote to the .htaccess file.

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

To add our own rewrites we need to rewrite the base path again. If the base directory is the public root directory (like http://www.example.net/) simply add a forward slash.

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RewriteBase /

This is where I tripped up. After setting your rewrite conditions and then making a rewrite rule you must provide the absolute path from the public root directory. So don’t miss that forward slash!

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RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /index.php?gibbs=$1 [L]

And finally a simple rewrite would look something like this:

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /index.php?gibbs=$1 [L]
 
RewriteBase /journal/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /journal/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

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