[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30340: .htaccess bug

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#30340: .htaccess bug
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 Reporter:  MarjWyatt       |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General         |    Version:  4.0
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration  |
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 I'm writing some redirects for a client.  When I was redirecting to a
 page/post on the same subfolder instance of WordPress, things went fine.
 When I added a redirect to a URL away from that subfolder, it did not
 work.

 Here is a redirect to another page on the same subfolder instance:
 `Redirect 301 /chocolate-covered-strawberries-edible-arrangements/
 http://www.someurl.com/blog/chocolate-covered-strawberries-arrangements/`

 Here is the redirect code to an external URL:
 `Redirect 302 /about/ http://www.someurl.com/about-us/`

 While troubleshooting this today, I discovered that the cause was in the
 code generated by WordPress when I saved permalinks.

 Here is the .htaccess generated by WordPress when saving permalinks:
 `# BEGIN WordPress
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /blog/
 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
 </IfModule>
 # END WordPress`

 Note the duplicate RewriteRule for index...

 I revised the .htaccess file to:
 `# BEGIN WordPress
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /blog/
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
 #RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
 </IfModule>
 # END WordPress`

 Lo and behold!  My redirect to an external URL worked.

 I think this is a bug.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30340>
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