[wp-hackers] Rewrite Experiment

[Ryan Boren]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 05:03 -0400, Mark Jaquith wrote:
> Ryan Boren wrote:
> 
> >Get rid of all of your rewrite rules and replace them with this:
> >
> >RewriteEngine On
> >RewriteBase /
> >RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1
> >
> >Adjust your base accordingly.  If you're running from a subdir, let's
> >say "wordpress", you'll need:
> >
> >RewriteEngine On
> >RewriteBase /wordpress/
> >RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /wordpress/index.php/$1
> >
> >Does it work?
> >
> >Ryan
> >
> Yeah, I e-mailed Matt with a similar scheme a few days ago.  I've been 
> testing it and it works great.

Matt forwarded me your email, which prompted me to get off my ass and
start looking at this again.  It's a nifty solution.

>   The only problem right now is that 
> pathinfo appears to be broken for feeds.  
> site.com/wordpress/index.php/feed/atom/ won't work using latest CVS, it 
> just returns the blog's home page.  The same thing can be seen on 
> Craig's site ( http://blog.nuclearmoose.com/feed/rss2/ ).

I have no problem with pathinfo feeds in CVS.  1.2 does not support
feeds via pathinfo, but CVS "should" be fine.  I'll look into it.

> Upsides of this method: no need to update rules with new WordPress 
> version of URI scheme.  Simplification of all the mod_rewrite rule 
> creation code.

There's lots of upside, assuming it works for everyone.  If anyone is
running Apache 1.3, I'd be particularly interested in knowing if this
works.  mod_rewrite in 1.3 has a number of bugs and missing features
that we have to work around.  If this works, we can handily avoid all of
those bugs.

Ryan