mod_rewrite & migration from Wordpress to Wordpress MU - How to redirect specific URLs?
Hi all,
I'm running a Wordpress blog in the root site of my domain right now but I want to move it to Wordpress MU and setup a new blog containing all the old info that is accessible by going to /technical. I know how to do this using mod_rewrite so that all requests for / go to /technical but I want to run another site in the root. For that reason redirecting ALL requests for / to /technical won't work.
How can I use mod_rewrite to redirect only certain addresses if I don't know what those addresses are?
Sorry if that doesn't make sense so please ask any questions necessary.
Thanks!
Chris
I'm running a Wordpress blog in the root site of my domain right now but I want to move it to Wordpress MU and setup a new blog containing all the old info that is accessible by going to /technical. I know how to do this using mod_rewrite so that all requests for / go to /technical but I want to run another site in the root. For that reason redirecting ALL requests for / to /technical won't work.
How can I use mod_rewrite to redirect only certain addresses if I don't know what those addresses are?
Sorry if that doesn't make sense so please ask any questions necessary.
Thanks!
Chris
ASKER
Won't that redirect ALL requests for /* to /technical/* though? I don't want to do that ...
Maybe you should wait another month since MU has been merged into Wordpress 3.0
In the meantime, 3.0 Beta 1 is available if you want to check it out
Download: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0-beta1.zip
Enable MU: http://wptheming.com/2010/03/wordpress-3-0-enable-network/
Here's some more info from the codex
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Andrea/Create_A_Network
In the meantime, 3.0 Beta 1 is available if you want to check it out
Download: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0-beta1.zip
Enable MU: http://wptheming.com/2010/03/wordpress-3-0-enable-network/
Here's some more info from the codex
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Andrea/Create_A_Network
ASKER
Sure, I can understand the reasoning behind waiting for WP 3.0 but that doesn't solve the problem - I'd still need to configure mod_rewrite so that my old addresses are redirected to the new ones.
I guess I could just use mod_rewrite to rewrite my category names??? It's not dynamic though, that's my only concern.
I guess I could just use mod_rewrite to rewrite my category names??? It's not dynamic though, that's my only concern.
ASKER
Ok, how about I reword this slightly ...
http://domain.com/category/design/
SHOULD BECOME
http://domain.com/technical/category/design/
Does that make more sense? :)
http://domain.com/category/design/
SHOULD BECOME
http://domain.com/technical/category/design/
Does that make more sense? :)
Then try this, it'll help u
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/design/$ /technical/category/design/
ASKER
No, that produces an HTTP 500 error.
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Thanks tpraveenraj.
Could you please explain what each of those lines does?
Could you please explain what each of those lines does?
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