It was a server missconfiguration in httpd.conf: <Directory /> AllowOverride None </Directory> had to be changed in AllowOverride All. I should have realized this sooner, but it eluded me since I thought the override was working on the main installation, but it wasn’t. I didn’t notice it, because it was a one-page website. Once I … Read more
WordPress tries to detect the webserver’s type by peeking into the global $_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’] variable. The Apache check is: $is_apache = (strpos($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘Apache’) !== false || strpos($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘LiteSpeed’) !== false); and the Nginx check is: $is_nginx = (strpos($_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’], ‘nginx’) !== false); You should therefore first check out: var_dump( $_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’] ); to see if it’s correct. Here … Read more
Why don’t we create our own template file, and do our stuff there? Here’s what I’m going to do: Create a custom page template Call the required plugin’s functions inside the page Redirect the plugins URLs to the page Get the query var and process the request – The page template Let’s create a simple … Read more
The question is about doing this with .htaccess, but why not disabling author pages from within WordPress instead? This would achieve the same result while making the subdirectory concern irrelevant altogether (and also works regardless of permalink structure settings) Sample code that sets all urls to author pages to a 404 error: add_action( ‘template_redirect’, function() … Read more
The cause of this issue for future reference was the ‘.’ in the category base, which was added to resolve a previous issue. Removing this and using /category/postname (per question) works, so will look for an alternative resolution to the category base issue.
Here are a couple of options: WP htaccess Control – will let you manually edit your .htaccess file All-in-one htaccess Plugin – will let you dynamically create an .htaccess file based on which modules/features you want set up When all else fails, turn to Google …
Okay, RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # Blog ID1 Rewrite Rules RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?primary-domain.co.uk [NC] RewriteRule ^about/careers/$ contact/careers/ [R=301,NC,L] RewriteRule ^glossary.html$ sitemap/ [R=301,NC,L] # Blog ID3 Rewrite Rules RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mapped-domain3.co.uk [NC] RewriteRule ^about/$ http://primary-domain.co.uk/about/ [R=301,NC,L] RewriteRule ^news/$ http://primary-domain.co.uk/news/ [R=301,NC,L] This works, there’s 158 more lines to my particular site but you get the idea. I … Read more
Since the request is sending to the blogspot server, no .htaccess wont wont. You could filter your post content output: add_filter(‘the_content’, function($the_content) { return str_replace(‘/s400′,’/s1600′,$the_content); }); Or you could edit modify the database global $wpdb; $wpdb->query(“UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET `post_content` = REPLACE(`post_content`,’/s400′,’/s1600′);”); Or do it in mysql UPDATE wp_posts SET `post_content` = REPLACE(`post_content`,’/s400′,’/s1600’; assuming wp_posts is … Read more
The following .htaccess to rewrite example … RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wp-content/uploads/[^\/]*/.*$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [QSA,L] Just to note… this will result in an external redirect (as if R=302 was included on the RewriteRule directive), not simply a “rewrite” (as is suggested) – even without the R flag. So, the browser will issue two requests for every … Read more
If you are using any CDN service like Cloudflare, then you can use the forwarding URL feature I mean you can set this rule: *example.com/* https://www.example.com/$2 this way, the HTTPS and www will be added to all URLs, this can be handled via web server too, but using a CDN service, will reduce the load … Read more