[wp-hackers] Rewrite Experiment

[Dougal Campbell]

Ryan Boren wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 05:03 -0400, Mark Jaquith wrote:
>>  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, I'm running Apache 1.3 under FreeBSD, and here are my findings:

My test install is in a subdirectory, and I had to modify the last rule 
to included the subdir info like so:

   RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /test/wordpress/index.php/$1

Once I did that, everything mostly worked fine, with a couple of 
exception: Feeds on monthly archives.

These generate feeds:
   http://dougal.gunters.org/test/wordpress/feed/rss2/
   http://dougal.gunters.org/test/wordpress/comments/feed/rss2/
   http://dougal.gunters.org/test/wordpress/archives/2004/08/23/awooga/feed/
 
http://dougal.gunters.org/test/wordpress/archives/category/general/feed/rss2/

These just display the regular index page:
   http://dougal.gunters.org/test/wordpress/archives/2004/08/feed/rss2/
 
http://dougal.gunters.org/test/wordpress/archives/2004/08/23/awooga/feed/rss2/


I was running into some other comment-related weirdness for a bit, but I 
finally figured out that it was specific to the test Kubrick theme that 
you linked earlier. I've gone back to the default theme for now.

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