Question

I’m planning on switching from having my blog on wordpress.com to having it on my own site hosted on my own server. Naturally I want to preserve the link structure from wordpress so that no links to my blog out there on the WWW break.

So my question is, how do I get the following friendly URL

http://example.com/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name

to map to some structure like

http://example.com/index.php?page=bla-bla

on my server using .htaccess?

Can the identifier bla-bla be a simple integer id, or does it have to include both date and name, that would be yyyy-mm-dd-post-name?

Thanks in advance.

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EDIT: Thank you for your quick replies. A few additions to my question though: I’m not currently using wordpress.org, so I don’t have a control panel that can generate the file for me. At least I think not. And I’m also not going to use wordpress on my own server.

Answer 1

You can make following work as you require .. put it in a .htaccess file.

# Options +FollowSymLinks  
# RewriteEngine On  
#   
# RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  
# RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  
#   
# RewriteRule ^page/(\d+)*$ ./page.php?id=$1 

To read all of the details .. click here to read “friendly and pretty urls”