[svlug] gotten myself in trouble with permalinks,

[Anthony Ettinger]

with dh, you can use mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess.

On 3/25/06, Kellner, Peter <Peter at peterkellner.net> wrote:
>
> It's an apache server but it's hosted at DreamHost.com so I don't think
> I have much control.  I only have about 10 links to do.  Is there any
> way to do them by hand?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tin Le [mailto:tin at le.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 10:46 PM
> To: Kellner, Peter
> Cc: svlug at lists.svlug.org
> Subject: Re: [svlug] gotten myself in trouble with permalinks,
>
>
>
>
> > I use wordpress 2. for my blog and want (have to) change my directory
> > structure.  Currently, when anyone references a blog posting they do
> it
> > with something like:
> >
> > http://peterkellner.net/?p=23
> >
> > Currently wordpress is setup so that wordpress is in the
> > peterkellner.net/wp directory but I have the options set to tell it
> the
> > homoe of my blog is peterkellner.net.
> >
> > The problem is, when I change it, the link becomes
> > http://peterkellner.net/wp/?p=23.  I don't really care about the extra
> > wp but my problem is I have lots of people who have linked to the
> > original name.
> >
> > My question is, I'm hoping there is some unix wizardry that I can do
> > such that when people press the original one, they get redirected to
> my
> > new link. (which may have a completely different name, not just an
> extra
> > wp in there).
> >
> > Wordpress does lots with my .htaccess file and all looks like greek to
> > me.
> >
>
> If you are running your own Apache server and can make changes to
> httpd.conf, mod_rewrite is your friend.
>
> Turn it on.
>
> LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
>
> Then the following rule should do it.
>
>     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^peterkellner.net$
>     RewriteRule ^/wp/(.*) http://peterkellner.net/$1 [R,L]
>
> Then service httpd reload to reread httpd.conf
>
> Tin Le
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