.htaccess - Read For Learn

Cleanup URL for a custom page in wordpress

You can do this with the internal rewrite system, which is parsed in php, not htaccess. First, add the rule. This assumes you have created a root page under Pages with the slug dictionary. function wpd_dictionary_rewrite(){ add_rewrite_tag( ‘%dictionary_word%’, ‘([^/]+)’ ); add_rewrite_rule( ‘^dictionary/([^/]+)/?$’, ‘index.php?pagename=dictionary&dictionary_word=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpd_dictionary_rewrite’ ); This code would go in … Read more

Rewrite rule to load images from production does nothing

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . index.php [L] # If images not found on development site, load from production RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wp-content/uploads/[^\/]*/.*$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [QSA,L] The problem here is that “If images not found on development site” then the request has already been rewritten to index.php by the preceding RewriteRule (WordPress front-controller), … Read more

Deny access to a path (give 403 or 404 response)

# this give internal server error throughout site: <Files ~ “/users/”> Header set X-Robots-Tag “noindex, nofollow” </FilesMatch> This would give an “internal server error” (500 response) because you’ve used </FilesMatch> to close the <Files> section. It should be </Files>. But as you suggested, this won’t work anyway, as the <Files> directive matches real files only, … Read more

Site searches by Python for non-existent assets

What are the python searches? Are they like bad bots? Most probably just “bad bots” searching for potential vulnerabilities. How do I block or prevent them? Well, you are already serving a 404 by the sounds of it, so it’s really a non-issue. However, you can prevent the request from going through WordPress by blocking … Read more

Remove / from www.example.com/ [closed]

This isn’t a WordPress thing, this is a browser/HTTP thing. Firefox may be showing the / as part of a setting, but example.com and example.com/ are the same URL. This Q on webmasters goes into more detail as to why this is the case: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/35643/is-trailing-slash-automagically-added-on-click-of-home-page-url-in-browser

Redirect Loop to Page, Can’t Find Origin, Can’t Remove [closed]

You can try a number of things. Delete the .htaccess file in the WordPress root directory. Visit: Dashboard -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes Visit: Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays Select an appropriate page. Then click “Save Changes”. You could also read my answer to the question (How do I … Read more

How to set up htaccess to redirect a particular post type or subdirectory to HTTPS?

Try this instead: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^open-tour/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/open-tour/$1 [R,L]

How can I serve a text file at a custom URL

You can utilize add_rewrite_rule to create a new endpoint like http://example.com/api/files/xyz which processes the request and renders the contents from your server. This allows you to mask the origin of the file but still access it’s content. add_rewrite_rule requires you flush_rewrite_rules but you only need to do that once every time you make a change … Read more

Multisite, can’t see sub blogs

The 404 is coming from your http server and not making it to WP. htaccess is not configured on your server.

How to redirect from various ?page_id= to home page?

You can’t match the query string using a mod_alias RedirectMatch directive. This directive matches against the URL-path only. You need to use mod_rewrite instead, with a condition that checks the QUERY_STRING server variable. For example, at the top of your .htaccess file, try the following: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page_id=\d+$ RewriteRule ^$ / [QSD,R=302,L] The QSD flag … Read more

+ More