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Victor Ferreira
Victor Ferreira

Reputation: 6449

Adding route rule to Wordpress HTACCESS and keep the URL

I want to add a rule to my .htaccess file that doesn't follow the Wordpress default rules.

Everything like this:

1- /course/(:any)

Must be redirected to this:

2- /course/?slug=$1

But I want to keep the URL in 1, without the query string.

Everything I try either gives me an internal server error or doesn't match the rule. This is what I got and is just being ignored (because the wordpress shows me a 'page not found' message). The resulting URL is like http://localhost/bethmoda/courses/?slug without the parameter and changing the URL

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)/course/(.*)$ /bethmoda/course?slug=$2 [L]

RewriteBase /bethmoda/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /bethmoda/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1028

Answers (2)

Yash
Yash

Reputation: 919

The following is a wordpress way to achieve what you want.

If possbile: change "slug" with something else, lets say "course-slug".

//Add query variable, so that wordpress identifies your custom query string
function add_custom_query_var( $qvars ) {
    $qvars[] = 'course-slug';
    return $qvars;
}
add_filter('query_vars', 'add_custom_query_var');

Add your custom rewrite rules

//Assumption: course is a page
add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array', 'custom_rewrite_rules' );
function custom_rewrite_rules( $rewrite_rules )
{
  $pattern = "course/([^/]+)?$";
  $target  = "index.php?" . "name=course&course-slug=\$matches[1]";

  // If course was a custom post type
  // $target  = "index.php?" . "post_type=course&course-slug=\$matches[1]";

  // If course was a category
  // $target  = "index.php?" . "category_name=course&course-slug=\$matches[1]";

  // If course was a tag
  // $target  = "index.php?" . "tag=course&course-slug=\$matches[1]";

  $newRules[$pattern] = $target;

  return array_merge($newRules,$rewrite_rules);
}

Flush permalink

Step 1: In the main menu find "Settings > Permalinks". 
Step 2: Scroll down if needed and click "Save Changes". 
Step 3: Rewrite rules and permalinks are flushed.

Upvotes: 0

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41249

You can use the following rule :

RewriteEngine On
#Exclude /bethmoda/course/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/bethmoda/course/index\.php$ 
RewriteRule ^/?bethmoda/course/(.+)$ /bethmoda/course/?slug=$1 [NC,L]

The rewriteCond is important to avoid RewriteLoop error on the second rewrite iteration, otherwise without this condition You will get an Internal server error.

Upvotes: 1

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