[wp-hackers] blog directory on the same level as pages

[Austin Matzko]

>From: Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com>
>
>Graeme Lennon wrote:
>>Perhaps I'm missing something, but can't you do this simply be prefixing
>>your permalink structure with /blog, and then adding two custom rewrite
>>rules to redirect /blog to /index.php, and / itself to wherever you want 
>>it to go (which wasn't made clear by the question)?
>
>I've done this before.

Okay, the part of that I can't get to work is redirecting / to one of the 
pages, say "home".  How do you do that without getting wacky circular 
results?