[wp-hackers] Dealing with apache redirects

[James Davis]

I've just replaced an existing website with a WordPress based one,
moving much of the content from static HTML pages into WordPress pages.

There's still to map some of the old URLs to new WordPress pages, or to
handle the 404 a little more gracefully. So I currently have
http://bar.com/foo/ and the old site moved to http://bar.com/foo/archive

My .htaccess reads

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /services/csirt/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /foo/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

So for instance I'd like a request for the old

http://bar.com/foo/index.html to get redirected to
http://bar.com/foo/index.php rather than getting a WordPress 404 as I
currently do. How should the .htaccess be adjusted to cope with this? I
did think that adding at the top

Redirect /foo/index.html http://www.bar.com/foo/

Would do the trick but this appears to send me into a redirection loop. :(

Any thoughts?

James