[Bb-trac] [bbPress] #982: .htaccess rules should handle empty topic or forum gracefully

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#982: .htaccess rules should handle empty topic or forum gracefully
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 Reporter:  _ck_      |       Owner:                    
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  1.0-beta & XML-RPC
Component:  Back-end  |     Version:  1.0-alpha-2       
 Severity:  normal    |    Keywords:                    
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 I would like to suggest that the .htaccess generator add these two rules
 to handle the accidental blank topic or forum via the path. This can
 happen in some weird plugin situations.


 {{{
 RewriteRule ^topic(|/)$ /forums/ [R=302,L,QSA]
 RewriteRule ^forum(|/)$ /forums/ [R=302,L,QSA]
 }}}

 Where `/forums/` would be their actual forum root of course.
 I am not sure if htaccess handles look-ahead, if so it of course can be
 written like this instead:

 {{{
 RewriteRule ^topic\/?$ /forums/ [R=302,L,QSA]
 RewriteRule ^forum\/?$ /forums/ [R=302,L,QSA]
 }}}

 This handles situations like when logging out and you are in a topic or
 forum that only logged in users can see. Otherwise they get a nasty 404
 message instead.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/982>
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