Thanks to @rofflox and @toscho for giving me the link. web.config file was not created as i was working on localhost as WAMP i.e Apache and it required when i shifted to production as it was running IIS. So i created a blank web.config file and added the following content. <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Main Rule” … Read more
a colleague fixed it using parse_request. similar to this one: http://willnorris.com/2009/06/wordpress-plugin-pet-peeve-2-direct-calls-to-plugin-files
The redirect has to be a 301, not an internal request. Otherwise WordPress will search dor a page named blog. And you don’t need mod_rewrite. # Apache 1.3 needs a complete URL RedirectMatch Permanent ^/blog$ http://example.com/ # Apache 2.x needs just the path RedirectMatch Permanent ^/blog$ /
Sigh had to add this to the httpd.conf file on the webserver: <Directory /var/www/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> First time I have to add it manually, oh well it works fine now 🙂
Sooo the problem was my brackets around the content in the condition I think. I’m still not so hot on these things, but I use these rules and they work: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(review|preview|feature).*\-[0-9]+$ RewriteRule ^review/(.*)\-[0-9]+$ /$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^preview/(.*)\-[0-9]+$ /$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^feature/(.*)\-[0-9]+$ /$1 [R=301,L] note: the (review|preview|feature) but is an x OR y OR … Read more
You should use get_query_var rather than $_GET. But you will need to register you custom variables, for instance: add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘register_my_query_vars’ ); function register_my_query_vars( $qvars ){ //Add these query variables $qvars[] = ‘video_id’; $qvars[] = ‘vide_title’; $qvars[] = ‘venue_src’; return $qvars; } Then you should be able to use get_query_var(‘venue_id’).
Try checking what your front page is set to in Settings > Reading. It should either have the your latest posts option selected, or the static page option selected and the front page set to a valid page. Edit: Wait… the http://www.walkerpoolenixon.com/wordpress url you provided doesn’t exist! Maybe you mean http://www.walkerpoolenixon.com/?
Follow instructions on Giving WordPress Its Own Directory in Codex.
Have a look at the Permalink settings in the admin, you should be able to achieve what you want there. Here is a link to the Permalink Codex something like /%post_id% should do the job, if you select the ‘Custom Structure’ option.
Add-on domain works in WordPress but links still lead to subdomain