Comments on: Rewrite Rule Feedback

By: frankp

frankp — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:51:01 +0000

I’ve been experiencing something similar to Benedict (no.8), where custom rules I add get seemingly removed by WordPress…

Is there a way around this?

It’s odd because I don’t remember doing anything that would have caused WP to rewrite the htaccess, but one day I realised my additions were gone…

By: Jani Tarvainen

Jani Tarvainen — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:16:12 +0000

I did some performance testing today (http://janit.iki.fi/wp-bench/). Looks like .htaccess rewrite rules are a major drag on performance, but I suppose these new rules can be moved to Apache config

By: Mathias

Mathias — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:38:22 +0000

Also, we’ve been folllowing the rule that WP does not own htaccess. We insert our rules and try not to stomp on what’s already there.

Of course. But can you think of one situation in which the user wouldn't want to use the 404 error template for every 404 error inside the WP root dir? I say add the feckin' thing. ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404

By: Kim @ Neteffects

Kim @ Neteffects — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:19:11 +0000

Same problem for me really, I try to redirect a page every time its moved, but is really hard with the last system for .htaccess.

But WordPress is still a fantastic publishing system!

By: Benedict Eastaugh

Benedict Eastaugh — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:32:13 +0000

Great to see you’re cleaning up the Rewrite Rules. I have a bunch of redirects on my site (having moved or removed various things), but WordPress keeps eating the things I add to the .htaccess. One possibility is to deny it access through CHMOD, and just update it myself, but this is work I’d really rather avoid.

The question: does WordPress simply generate a new .htaccess when it changes a rule, and copy it over the old one? Is there some way to add stuff to the .htaccess file that WordPress won’t remove? One possibility, I suppose, would be to have a “custom .htaccess rules” section on the Dashboard; are there any plugins to help with this?

By: Cyndy

Cyndy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:05:04 +0000

Are the new rewrite rules going to implement the same functionality of the two permalink plugins that are out? Or at least the one that fixes the trailing slash?

By: Donncha

Donncha — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:24:06 +0000

I gotta experiment with MU to see if I can let WP handle most rewrites. Unfortunately the URL doesn’t often match the directory structure so it’s not possible to have it as minimalistic as yours above but I’d like to cut it down as much as possible!

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:54:18 +0000

We still have to dynamically set paths such as the RewriteBase. Also, we’ve been folllowing the rule that WP does not own htaccess. We insert our rules and try not to stomp on what’s already there.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:25:10 +0000

Also, I was wondering if the .htaccess file with these rules will be included in the download – then you wouldn’t really need to have the file be writable at all…?

By: Mathias

Mathias — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:48:42 +0000

How about adding ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404 to the .htaccess? That way, not exclusively in-WP 404 errors would be displayed through the 404 template…