i know it’s a bit late but i’m going to answer it. if folder permissions get changed by themselves even after you password-protect them then i assume there is some serious problems with your Cpanel and your hosting. I’ve had a problem like this in my project but not on WordPress and it turned out … Read more
It turns out that the problem wasn’t WP per say but that mod_rewrite was being forbidden because of some server settings. I didn’t realize it until the server guy sent over an error log that was filled with messages containing: Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden To make … Read more
wp_upload_bits – define (sub)folder / (sub)directory before filename?
It can be done, I did it here for example: http://krimsonkloverdev.malbert.me/ – dev site with seperate wordpress install http://www.malbert.me/ – main site on root level. I set everything up at my host, I’d recommend you just contact them first and be sure you can have separate database installs as that’s basically all you need.
Subdirectory and domain multisite installation
Create Subfolder that always displays template file
Move WordPress with changed name ‘wp-content’
With some help (also asked on SO, as this wasn’t a strict WP question), and some testing, the following ended up working for me (added a slash just before the $ sign): RewriteRule ^galleries/(.*)/$ /portfolio/$1 [R=301,NC,L] As the galleries are actual directories, not files, they have a slash at the end: http://subdomain.example.com/galleries/headshots/ Here —^
Found a solution for anyone who may stumble upon this. Basically, each part of a standard WordPress htaccess now has two RewriteConds: one for when it is in a subfolder, and another for when its not. Depending on that evaluation, the appropriate RewriteRule is applied. # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – … Read more
Well, what do you know — there’s a plugin for that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ Under the “redirects” tab in the plugin’s settings you can set as many redirect rules as you’d like.