[wp-hackers] RE: .htaccess cleanup

[Robert Deaton]

If you ask me, all of this is a bit of premature optimization. If
anyone care to look up mod_rewrite benchmark, you'll see that it
easily handles thousands of rules without a hiccup. Unless the
intention is to make things easier on someone that wants to have their
own rules in their .htaccess, I think all should stay as is. Why
change something that has been proven to work well?

On 5/22/05, Kimmo Suominen <kimmo+key+wordpress.c4f53f at suominen.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:38:04PM -0500, Ryan Boren wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 22:00 +0300, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> > > I have those rules commented out in my .htaccess, but I haven't put in a
> > > comment on why I'm not using them.
> > >
> > > I did some experimenting now, and the rules work fine except that I never
> > > get a 404 error for URL's that don't exist.  I just get the "root blog"
> > > page (i.e. most recent posts).
> >
> > WP itself should handle issuing a 404.  There was a bug with this in 1.5
> > where the 404 wasn't always issued properly, but that should be fixed in
> > 1.5.1[.1].  WP will also display the 404 template, if present.  If not,
> > you will see the regular index.   Well-behaved themes should have a
> > separate 404 template or handle the is_404() condition in their index.
> > The default theme has a 404 template.  The Classic theme does not.
> 
> Ryan -- thanks for the pointer -- that's it!  I'm not checking for
> is_404() in the embedding index.
> 
> Yet another reason to do the embedding "the other way around," i.e.
> by calling the non-wp parts from within a custom theme.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Regards,
> + Kim
> --
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> 
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