mod_rewrite: remove string

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    sebstein · Member ·

    Hi folks,

    I’m currently migrating my blog to wordpress. Seems to work just fine, but I also want to migrate some of my old permalinks, because there are some links in the net pointing at them. Basically, it should be possible to do with mod_rewrite, but I can’t get it working.

    Example of old permalink:

    http://domain/blog/fixedstring/variablestring/2007/05/01/entry

    Same post with new permalink:

    http://domain/2007/05/01/entry

    So basically I have to remove “blog/fixedstring/variablestring/”. I would write the following rule:

    (^blog/fixedstring/.[a-z]*/)(.*) $2

    This works, if I use it outside of wordpress, but I don’t know how to integrate it with the standard wordpress .htaccess file. I thought it must work as follows:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule (^blog/fixedstring/.[a-z]*/)(.*) $2
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Does anybody knows what is going wrong?

    Regards,

    Sebastian

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    drmike · Member ·

    Wrong site I’m afraid. You need to be over at http://wordpress.org That’s the site for the wordpress software. This is a hosting company.

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