[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #4544: WP 404s manual rewrites to index.php

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#4544: WP 404s manual rewrites to index.php
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 Reporter:  vinskapur  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:           
Component:  General    |     Version:  2.3      
 Severity:  normal     |    Keywords:           
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 On one of my sites, the permalink structure is set to
 {{{/news/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/}}} and its category base is
 {{{/news/categories}}}. I would like to add to and uncomplicate some of
 these rewrites for categories deserving of their own site sections -
 {{{/music/}}}, {{{/onair/}}} etc - so I attempted to add the following
 rewrite in .htaccess as a starting point (before the WP block):

 {{{RewriteRule ^(news|onair|events|music)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1
 [QSA,L]}}}

 This rewrite actually works on the server side (ie {{{/music/}}} rewrites
 to {{{/index.php?category_name=music}}}), but something in WordPress
 throws up the {{{is_404()}}} flag and it returns a file not found error
 page. I haven't found that something.

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