Modifying the URL structure always consists of two parts: one two modify the URLs you generate with your code, and one to handle the incoming URLs of the new structure. The latter part is done by modifying the rewrite rules. I have just written a detailed explanation of the relevant rewrite functionality in a response … Read more
Yeah the server is not reading the htaccess file properly. may need AllowOverride FileInfo Options in the httpd.conf file for that vhost.
Your rewrite rules must not start with the first slash, that is already stripped out. So the following code will add a rewrite rule that will set a query variable that we can later use: add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse9016_init’ ); function wpse9016_init() { add_rewrite_rule( ‘currentpage/(\d+)/?’, ‘index.php?wpse9016_currentpage=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } This query variable is ignored unless we … Read more
The redirect has to be a 301, not an internal request. Otherwise WordPress will search dor a page named blog. And you don’t need mod_rewrite. # Apache 1.3 needs a complete URL RedirectMatch Permanent ^/blog$ 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 🙂
I would use #2 (/parentpage/page/), since that’s the ‘official’ URL WP assigned to it, WP will find the right page faster and it may help you with your SEO. Yes, if you change slugs it will be a broken link, you could use the Redirection plugin for that (it has the option to add a … Read more
What @iampearce said is basically right, but to be a bit more specific: look in Settings > Pewrmalinks. Choose one of the defaults – maybe %year%/%postname% – and click Save. Does that help? If that doesn’t fix it, look in Settings > Reading and check that the “front page” and the “posts page” are not … Read more
The only way to really know if it’s going to be a 404 is to let WordPress try to load it and check results before WP sends headers. If you put this in your functions.php (not on a live site! use a dev mirror.), then visit a page that throws a 404, you can see … Read more
Take a look at this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/. It has support for rewriting author urls. Should be a quick and easy fix.
It’s more of my personal approach than any kind of best practice, but I find WP’s Ajax handler to be easy and logical endpoint for such technical URLs.