Will Taft

As an update, it appears this code needs to be first and apart from the WordPress section of the htaccess file to avoid being rewritten.

This is what my htaccess file looks like now:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yoursite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %

{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

For anyone who finds this in a search… Below is what I did to get this to work. The two lines in the middle are what I added to the existing file. It appears to work correctly. If any of the experts here see a problem with the code, please respond. Otherwise, I’ll mark it resolved. Thanks.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yoursite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

When I made to directory changes, the feedburner feed would no longer work. I need to get that resolved, but wanted to first make sure the feed was indeed available on my site.

No matter how I try to access the feed, I get the feedburner error. I have tried directly through Google Reader, also by going directly to feedburner and telling it to get the feed from my site. It can not find a feed. Even clicking on the link in your message above, I get only a feedburner error. I have now deleted my feedburner setup and that makes no difference. I also went to the FeedShow site, but that tool also tells me that there is no valid feed available.

How did you determine that my feed works? I would like to know how to reach the same conclusion myself, not for this time, but for any possible future issues.

Thanks again!

Wait a minute…. Just now, 30 minutes after doing the steps in the last post, things seem to be working. Let me click around and try all the pages etc. and I will post back.

Maybe I was too impatient. I expected the changes to take right away. Is it logical that they would be delayed?

means literally make a copy, leaving the originals where they were?

Yes 🙂

Although Michael says: Delete wordpress/.htaccess

So, it probably works either way as long as there is .htaccess in root and the index.php files are in both places and read as directed by the codex and Michael?

I’ll try it again tomorrow and hopefully come back to mark this as resolved!

Thanks!

Or maybe… “Copy the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address).” means literally make a copy, leaving the originals where they were? I moved them. Or am I groping for what I am missing and getting further befuddled?

Now a follow up. Someone named Otto, (maybe the Otto42 from here?) posted the quote below on another site. I have the .htaccess file referenced above in my wordpress directory, which is right below the root directory of my domain. Ie: mysite.com/wordpress. Do I make the revision to that file or do I need another .htaccess file in the root directory?

“While this plugin and other like it will indeed work, I really recommend using the .htaccess method instead, if you can get it to work.

It’s actually very simple to do. Go to no-www org and scroll down the page until you find the post titled “Make your site Class B”. Copy that htaccess code into the .htaccess file at the root of your webpage. Change the “domain” to your own, obviously.

Done and done.”