[wp-hackers] Dealing with apache redirects

[mccormicky]

Is this in .htaccess?
DirectoryIndex index.php

you can't redirect /foo/index.html
to /foo/








On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:59 AM, James Davis <james at freecharity.org.uk>wrote:

> 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
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