for your sanity you should not put different sites in the same web “directory” it brings clutter and possible unindended interactions without gaining anything. WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL might be an historical artifact (even when I start to develop for wordpress at version 2.x I could not figure out who needs it) maybe from the times … Read more
This is an Apache question rather than a WordPress question so it doesn’t belong on this Stack, but your third RewriteCond is blocking every single person who tries to visit your site using Firefox.
To redirect an entire WordPress site to a specific HTML page using .htaccess, you can set up a redirect rule in the .htaccess file located in your site’s root directory. Add rewrite rules immediately after “RewriteEngine On” # Redirect all traffic to a specific HTML page RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/specific-page.html$ # Prevent redirect loop … Read more
WordPress Subfolder link to page
if anyone got stuck with this same issue, it turned out for me that i need to add a type A record with Name www and Value server ip address on the DNS configuration thanks @rudtek for pointing it out!
Are there any negative impact if access to directories were accidently denied?
Return 403 for specific paths in WordPress
is partly wrong in every WordPress .Htaccess hardening article I’ve seen. Unfortunately it is very common for Apache config/regex code snippets to be blindly copy/pasted and errors do propagate. Unless there is some obscure vulnerability we are not aware of then I would bet that that is what has happened here. (Although matching “too much” … Read more
To ensure that your URLs have a consistent trailing slash and avoid duplicate content, you can use the following .htaccess rules. These rules will enforce a single trailing slash for URLs and redirect any URLs without or with multiple trailing slashes to their correct form. Here’s the updated .htaccess code: # Enable rewrite engine RewriteEngine … Read more
I needed the same thing – a ‘landing’ page at the root site that was custom-built (via PHP), but then WordPress-based pages elsewhere. I did it with the htaccess file for the site: # For example.com root, set landing.php as the default page RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^$ /landing.php [L] This will redirect www.example.com … Read more