{"id":823,"date":"2006-11-15T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=823"},"modified":"2006-11-15T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T09:23:00","slug":"replacing-changed-directory-names-with-htaccess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2006\/11\/15\/replacing-changed-directory-names-with-htaccess\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing changed directory names with .htaccess"},"content":{"rendered":"

After poking around with some Rewrite rules<\/a> and nearly losing my nerve with what seemed to be a choice between a 500 Internal Error<\/code> and WordPress’ 404 pages, I finally came up with a redirect instruction for my .htaccess file that replaces a subdirectory name in URLs which end in .html.<\/p>\n

I need this because when I started marginaali<\/a>, I used Blogger<\/a> which outputs html files. I then moved on to WordPress<\/a> and imported everything I had blogged thus far – apart from the comments that I had received. Therefore I didn’t have the heart to delete all those .html files and was sort of stuck between the two.<\/p>\n

After activating pretty permalinks<\/a>, all requests to those old posts were redirected to the WordPress ones, and so the comments were, in effect, not available. Not until I changed the old posts’ directory name from both Blogger’s and WordPress’ standard naming by the year, by prefixing the (thankfully only) 2004 directory with an ‘o’, into ‘o2004’.<\/p>\n

There was one additional problem: that of old links out there in the Net pointing to these old posts and the comments in them – they were now broken of course. Here’s where I figured a relatively simple rewrite rule should do the trick: in all requests to files ending in .html under \/marginaali\/, replace the 2004 with the o2004.<\/p>\n

Well, like I implied in the beginning, this was surprisingly difficult to achieve with my little experience in tweaking .htaccess files. I finally succeeded, however, and here’s my solution:<\/p>\n

RedirectMatch<\/a> \/marginaali\/2004\/(.*)\\.html$ http:\/\/mummila.net\/marginaali\/o2004\/$1.html<\/code><\/p>\n

I placed this directive after the segment added by WordPress, in the the same .htaccess file that controls the permalinking, in \/marginaali\/. It leaves requests to the WP versions of posts (such as this one<\/a>) intact, while fixing the requests to their html versions with the added ‘o’ so that, for example, 2004\/11\/sepe.html<\/a> gets redirected to o2004\/11\/sepe.html<\/a>. (That is an actual example of a page being referred to out on someone else’s page<\/a>, which I have no control over.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After poking around with some Rewrite rules and nearly losing my nerve with what seemed to be a choice between a 500 Internal Error and WordPress’ 404 pages, I finally came up with a redirect instruction for my .htaccess file that replaces a subdirectory name in URLs which end in .html. I need this because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9387,29],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog","tag-hacks-tweaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}