Question

I have troubles with mod_rewrite.

I have wordpress site located in ‘wp’ directory. It is accessible as http://localhost/wp/

There is page http://localhost/wp/sample-page/ on the site.

I want to make this page open with url http://localhost/wp/sample-page-2/ without redirect.

Here is what in .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wp/
RewriteRule ^sample-page-2/$ sample-page/ [L]

But I’m getting 404 error.

Could somebody explain me what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

UPD:

@soju: Well, “sample-page-2” – is just example

1. It is not a page/post in worpress sence.
2. Actually I tried to add one section to the url. E.g. http://localhost/wp/sample-page/section/. And this rule RewriteRule ^sample-page/section/$ sample-page/ [L] didn’t work. Then I decided to “simpliyfy” url(“sample-page-2” instead of “sample-page/section”) – no success.

UPD2

BTW, redirect RewriteRule ^sample-page-2/$ sample-page/ [R=301,L] works

Answer 1

I suppose wordpress rewrite rules are after your own rule, so you should remove [L] option to let wordpress handle sample-page url

EDIT about UPD2 : Well, it works with a 301 redirection, but you said you don’t want redirection ?

You can add a filter on rewrite_rules_array to make your own rewrite rule, take a look at example on codex : http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Rewrite#Examples