[wpmu-trac] [WordPress MU Trac] #1167: Requests for URLs that contain ".php" aren't routed to WPMU

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#1167: Requests for URLs that contain ".php" aren't routed to WPMU
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 Reporter:  jamescollins  |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:          
Component:  General       |     Version:  2.8.2   
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:          
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Comment(by jamescollins):

 Yes, basically we've migrated a client's existing site (which used /*.php
 file URLs) to a WPMU site, and we were planning in using the redirection
 plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/) to 301 redirect
 the old /*.php URLs to /*/.

 However the plugin doesn't work because the request isn't routed to WPMU
 at all.

 This approach has worked fine for normal WP sites though.

 Perhaps instead of blindly rewriting *.php to *, we need to explicitly
 list all the possible root WP .php files instead?

 All the files in the root folder are wp-*.php, so they are covered by the
 other rule. The only other one seems to be xmlrpc.php, which could have a
 specific rule added for it.

 ie something like (untested):

 {{{
 RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(xmlrpc\.php)$ /xmlrpc.php [L]
 }}}

 Instead of

 {{{
 RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
 }}}

 Thoughts?

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