[wp-hackers] Feature: Select location of .htaccess (for permalinks)?

[Ryan Boren]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 14:42 -0400, Nick Parker wrote:
> I've got a site running WP 1.3a4, where Wordpress is kept in a separate 
> directory from index.php:
> 
> Wordpress: /wp13a4/*
> Site: /index.php (and /.htaccess)
> 
> For the Options->Permalinks page, could an option be added to specify 
> the absolute/relative location of one's .htaccess file, so that WP 
> doesn't assume that it's located in WP's directory? This would make the 
> automatic editing of .htaccess much more versatile, if implemented.
> Perhaps such a field could be autofilled with the difference between the 
> "WordPress Address" and "Blog Address" fields in Options->General? In my 
> case, WordPress Address is "http://beoba.net/wp13a4" and Blog Address is 
> "http://beoba.net", so it probably wouldn't be too terribly hard for WP 
> to pick up on the difference from that.
> 
> If this has already been implemented by some other means and I just 
> haven't noticed, then nevermind. :)

This should already be done automatically.  If not, it's a bug.

Ryan