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By: Isaac Z. Schlueter

Isaac Z. Schlueter — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:48:34 +0000

I found that this plugin doesn’t work if you have nested categories, and use %category% in your permalink.rnrnI wrote a plugin that creates a new rewrite handler (wp-htaccess.php) and directs “greedy” requests through that file. It can be found at:rnhttp://isaacschlueter.com/plugins/i-made/lucky-13-rewrite/

By: bj

bj — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:38:24 +0000

“Set a flag in the plugin two switch between the two styles. If your server does not allow path info, use the 404 handler.”

Flag? Plugin two switch? Translation for nongeeky person please. This plugin is doing SOMETHING, since I now get my customized 404 page, which I didn’t before. I’d rather get my permalink pages (and a working search box with it, please!)

apache1.3.33 unix on a linux server
kernel 2.4.26
php 4.3.10
mysql 4.0.22 std

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:48:49 +0000

Ok. Reduced Rewrite corrected almost all my problems and I thank you a lot for that. Bu it created a little regression. The search box does not operate correctly from permalinks and other archived pages. Is there a workaround for this ?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:13:50 +0000

Usage of the reluctant modifier, ‘?’, with Apache 1.3 resulted in 500 errors . We recevied many bug reports from Apache 1.3 users when we introduced this into the nightly builds many months ago. Those same nightly builds had no problem using the modifier when running on Apache2.

By: DrBacchus

DrBacchus — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:51:29 +0000

I poked around the web, and found a number of places that made this same claim – that the “reluctant modifier” doesn’t work in Apache 1.3 mod_rewrite, and that this modifier is indeed what they are calling the ? modifier.

Since this is not true (mod_rewrite has supported the ? modifier since the initial releases back in 1995 or so) I’m left wondering whether either some third-party distribution of Apache (like, some Linux distro, say) introduced a bug in the PCRE libraries, or whether there’s some confusion as to what ? is supposed to do, or some other problem that I’m not thinking of.

My interest in this issue goes a lot farther than permalinks in WordPress, since I’m rewriting the mod_rewrite documentation, as well as working on a book about mod_rewrite. So I’m anxious to find out stuff like this, particularly if it means that I’m the one that’s misinformed.

Any specific details you could provide regarding exactly what way this modifier fails to work on 1.3 would be enormously appreciated.

By: DrBacchus

DrBacchus — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:42:32 +0000

By “reluctant modifier”, do you mean the ? character, or something else? I’m not familiar with that term.

By: heather

heather — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:32:01 +0000

ok- so at least i can have some relief.

what i’m reading is: “forget about it, it’s not working, get over it, move on”

thanks for your time though.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:51:09 +0000

heather, I’ve used Reduced Rewrite on 1.3 installlations with %category%. It doesn’t seem to be working for everyone, however. I don’t know what’s causing it to fail.

DrBacchus, mod_rewrite in Apache 1.3 doesn’t support the reluctant modifier and can be very picky about how characters in a character class are organized.

Creating a set of rewrite rules that accommodates as many permalink structures as possible, supports subcategories, supports i18n, and works across all versions of mod_rewrite and php is challenging.

By: DrBacchus

DrBacchus — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:07:31 +0000

I was wondering if you might elaborate on what “annoying bugs in mod_rewrite” you’re referring to.

Thanks.