The ^ in your rewriterule means the URL must begin with the postname, as in your new structure – so what you’re saying in that second line is, “redirect http://www.example.com/postname to http://www.example.com/postname“. So it’s the ^ that’s throwing things off. If you were previously using URLs like http://www.example.com/categoryname/postname/ then I would suggest instead: RewriteEngine On … Read more
htaccess question and plugins.php
using htaccess to check for cookie on permalink then conditionall rewrite with query parameter
URL Rewrite 404
It’s the redirect in htaccess that will route the “pretty” url into the real querystring based url that is the issue. So, it would seem you need to “remove” the /{nicename} portion from the “pretty” URL of the form https://example.com/members-list-profile/{nicename}/?uid=XX. Try something like the following at the top of your .htaccess file (before the WordPress … Read more
How can I put WordPress in a directory but keep just the home page at the domain root?
Can I add a rewrite rule in htaccess to remove the multisite subdirectory from the URL?
htaccess redirect to path
Changing permalink stops me from creating webpages
This may not be completely WordPress related. But you may try a few suggestions mentioned on this thread.