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POWordpress, .htaccess and mod_rewrite: how can I add redirection rules?
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    copied!<p>At the moment, I have a standard installation of Wordpress 3.0, and the .htaccess file looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] &lt;/IfModule&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want to rewrite URLs so that I can provide some automatically generated pages, but keep it within the Wordpress theme. For example, going to <code>/event/123/</code> should pull the details for event #123 from my database, without the page existing in Wordpress.</p> <p>I was thinking I could create a "generic event" page (eg. <code>/event/generic/</code>) in Wordpress and have it take a parameter, such as:</p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^event/(\d+)/$ /event/generic/?q=$1 [L] </code></pre> <p>However, that doesn't seem to work, it just takes me to the Wordpress 404 page. I'm thinking that I might be asking a lot of Wordpress here, but surely it's possible? </p> <p>The only other solution I've thought of would be to hack 404.php within the theme.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>My <code>.htaccess</code> looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^eventtest/(\w+)/$ /events/event-single/ [L] RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] &lt;/IfModule&gt; </code></pre> <p>If I then go to <code>/eventtest/testing/</code>, then:</p> <pre><code>$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is /eventtest/testing/ $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] is /events/event-single/ </code></pre> <p>The <code>/events/event-single/</code> page exists in Wordpress, but if I go to <code>/eventtest/testing/</code>, I get a 404 page.</p>
 

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