[wp-hackers] Please Help: Gallery2 Rewrites and Wordpress Pages

[Matt]

Try putting your Rewrite Rules above WordPress', so that they're processed
first, and WP's won't see them.

On 7/8/07, ozgreg <wphackers at galleryembedded.com> wrote:
>
> Part of the technical challenges in combining Gallery2 Output within
> Wordpress is the clash of the Wordpress Greedy Rewrite Rules and Gallery2.
>
> In the past, we found the most robust way to stop rewrite rules from
> returning 404's was to direct the output to an external php page which in
> turn generates a "Wordpress Page"..
>
> Although this approach is very robust it is never desirable to have to add
> an additional file to the Wordpress Root Directory and it is something we
> want to avoid.
>
> I have many an attempt to instead build a internal Wordpress Page and
> added a hook to perform a termplate redirect and although this approach
> works well within Wordpress as soon as Gallery2 Rewrite Rules are added to
> the Mix the entire solution goes south with 404 errors ..
>
> For Example
>
> Wordpress Page -> /photos
> Gallery2 URL -> /photos/Images
>
> Gallery 2 rewrite rule
>
>    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /photos/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
>    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/photos$
>    RewriteRule .   /photos?g2_path=%1   [QSA,L]
>
> URL sent to Wordpress would then be /photos/Images which Wordpress Cannot
> Find (IS_404)
>
> I believe solution would be to change the internal Wordpress Rewrite Rules
>
> (photos)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$
> (photos)(/[0-9]+)?/?$
>
> to be more greedy to redirecting any children Pages of photos to the
> parent photos but to be honest rewrite structures are not my strength and
> would love some feedback, suggestion or ideas on how to handle this..
>
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