To Yan: The extensions (.htm) and (.html) are the same thing, it’s just that older computers only allowed 3 character extensions to identify what type of file it is and which programs could access it.

I’m not sure when, but some programs started using 4, and since it has 4 words(hyper text markup language), they started using (.html). I think they’re are semi-compatible, where you can stop at htm on a html page, but not the other way around, but don’t quote me.

B)>

Thank you for clarifying a few things for me that aren’t so clear in the wordpress codex, wish i would have ended up here first off.

my blog

my blog on Home Based Business

peace
-mE

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

http://www.askapache.com/2006/htaccess/htaccesselite-ultimate-htaccess-article.html

I’ve seen many people just use /%postname%/ alone.

Is there any difference?

Is it better for SEO reasons to put it at blog.337design.com? Thanks for your help, Ben

Can you please guide me?
Thanks and regards.

Enter the rewrite script here:
RULE_0_START:
match URL into $ with /category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_0_END
set URL = /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2
goto END
RULE_0_END:

RULE_1_START:
#match URL into $ with /category/([_a-z-]+\/)+$
match URL into $ with /category/?(.*)
if not matched then goto RULE_1_END
set URL = /index.php?category_name=$1
goto END
RULE_1_END:

RULE_2_START:
match URL into $ with /author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_2_END
set URL = /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2
goto END
RULE_2_END:

RULE_3_START:
match URL into $ with author/?(.*)
if not matched then goto RULE_3_END
set URL = /index.php?author_name=$1
goto END
RULE_3_END:

RULE_4_START:
match URL into $ with ([_0-9a-z-]+).html([0-9]+)?/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_4_END
set URL = /index.php?name=$1&page=$2
goto END
RULE_4_END:

RULE_5_START:
match URL into $ with ([_0-9a-z-]+).html/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_5_END
set URL = /wp-feed.php?name=$1&feed=$2
goto END
RULE_5_END:

RULE_6_START:
match URL into $ with ([_0-9a-z-]+).html/trackback/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_6_END
set URL = /wp-trackback.php?name=$1
goto END
RULE_6_END:

RULE_7_START:
match URL into $ with comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_7_END
set URL = /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1
goto END
RULE_7_END:

RULE_8_START:
match URL into $ with feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$
if not matched then goto RULE_8_END
set URL = /wp-feed.php?feed=$1
goto END
RULE_8_END:

RULE_11_START:
match URL into $ with ([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/(([0-9]+)\/)?$
if not matched then goto RULE_11_END
set URL = /index.php?m=$1$2$3
goto END
RULE_11_END:

Thanks…….

For example instead of:
catalog?category=4
the link would be
catalog/caregory_slug

I’ve already changed the code, so the links are shown this way, I added to every category a slug in the DB.

The problem is that I don’t know what to change in the .htaccess or WP code in order to tell WP that all the URLs that match ^catalog/ should be treated as it was catalog?…

This is what I tried:
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]*)/?$ /catalog?category_slug=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?$ /catalog?category_slug=$1&subcategory_slug=$2 [L]

Even when I try the next rule for testing:
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?p=4&category_slug=$1&subcategory_slug=$2 [L]

I get the default error page: Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.

I’d really appriciate any help / hint / example to see how can I hack WP to use permalinks in this case.

Albert
http://laowaichinese.net

PS: the leave a comment form is very confusing. I wasn’t sure what goes where…

i tried also
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-z-]+).htm([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?name=$1&page=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-z-]+).htm/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-z-]+).htm/trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]

but not working for my blog system.

i don’t understand mu.
thank you

Its working…thanks a ton

Regards
Kiviniar

p.s.i can sleep a relieved man

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

I don’t know anything about .htaccess files but managed to set the permalinks using WP control panel. Is it neccessary or advisable to mess around with the .htaccess file?

The requested URL /2006/09/ was not found on this server.

Categories and pages both – pages give the /title/

the URL for this custom wordpress blog is at client’s http://www.electronicsleader.net