[wp-hackers] Rewrite Experiment

[Ryan Boren]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 14:40 -0400, Dougal Campbell wrote:
> 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.

I moved the feed and trackback tests to the beginning of the template
redirection block in wp-blog-header.  That should help the case where it
displays a regular page instead of a feed.  Also, the feed links for
posts, categories, dates, authors, etc. are structured like this:

/feed
/rss2
/atom

not:

/feed/rss2
/feed/atom

/feed is simply an alias for /rss2

Ryan