Question

I set the wordpress permalink-structure to just use the articlename and got a .htaccess that looks like this

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

works fine.

but I want to distinguish between different locations (i.e. berlin, hamburg or muenchen) in my various template files. so I thought I’d add the location to the URL like this:

http://myurl.com/berlin/articlename

and now I need to rewrite this to

http://myurl.com/articlename?location=berlin

but

http://myurl.com/articlename

or

http://myurl.com/category/articlename

should still work. just look for predefined locations (berlin|hamburg|muenchen).

how do I need to adjust the RewriteRule above to accomplish this?

Answer 1

i fixed this with the following additions to the .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !location
RewriteRule ^(muenchen|berlin)/$ /index.php?location=$1 [NC,QSA,P]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !location
RewriteRule ^(muenchen|berlin)/(.*)$ /$2?location=$1 [NC,QSA,P]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>