mod_rewrite is deep magic
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006When I moved this blog from MovableType to Wordpress, the rss feed urls changed. Since I didn’t want the livejournal syndication to break, I put in mod_rewrite RewriteRules to redirect those feed urls. When I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0, what had been an extremely long .htaccess became just a few lines long, and all the fancy stuff that they used to do in .htaccess with mod_rewrite are now evidently done in index.php itself. So I’m trying to figure out how to insert new RewriteRules to do what I did before, but everything I try either does nothing, or it causes the whole blog to break with a message in the error.log file saying “mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error.”
Here is the existing .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blogs/pt/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blogs/pt/index.php
</IfModule>
I would have thought that adding the following would be sufficient:
RewriteRule index.rdf /blogs/pt/feed/
RewriteRule index.xml /blogs/pt/feed/
or possibly, since /feed/ is evidently going to be passed to index.php as arguments, like this:
RewriteRule index.rdf /blogs/pt/index.php?&feed
RewriteRule index.xml /blogs/pt/index.php?&feed
I also tried with [L] and/or [R] conditions. No luck.
I’d like to get all those syndicators working again. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment or drop me an email.
