any Mod_Rewrite experts?

charlton · 02-03-06

I am using the permalinks feature with %postname% in wordpress to make friendly urls from the posts. I put this code given by wordpress:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /investing/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /investing/index.php
</IfModule>

in the .htaccess file and everything works fine UNLESS the postname, ie title also has the word "investing" (the keyword in the url and the subfolder where the wordpress files are) in it, then it won't work and you get either a wordpress 404 page or the default error page.

Is there something I can add to the code to stop this happening?

My hosting company suggested adding the main url of the site to the blog post title and that does work but then the url is not very SE friendly.

thanks in advance

dmorison · 02-03-06

Hi charlton,

I think this is being caused by Apache's "mutliview" functionality kicking in, which you can disable by adding "Options -MultiViews", so you would have:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /investing/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /investing/index.php
</IfModule>

charlton · 03-03-06

Hi dmorison

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.

I have found that it only seems to occur when this scenario happens:

sub folder: www.mydomain.com/blue-widgets

post title: blue widgets - cheaper blue widgets online

It tries to creat a url like: http://www.mydomain.com/blue-widgets...ts-online.html (the first bit of the url exactly matches the subfolder name)

If you change it to:

widgets blue etc

or cheapest blue widgets

it seems to work fine - so I'll work with that until I find out why

thanks again