Question

I’m wanting to rewrite Word Press urls using mod_rewrite in my .htaccess file in the following ways:

http://blog.com/content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css

to

http://blog.com/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css

and

http://blog.com/inc/css/admin-bar.css?ver=20110622

to

http://blog.com/wp-includes/css/admin-bar.css?ver=20110622

and

http://blog.com/admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit

to

http://blog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit

I’m trying to hide the fact that this website is using Word Press, and all links have been rewritten on the fly using PHP. However I want the server to rewrite the links back to the correct Word Press ones as above.

In case it helps, I’ve prepended a file (in my php.ini file) to the WordPress index.php file which calls the ob_start(); function and then appended the following file:

<?php
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$html = str_replace("wp-content", "content", $html);
$html = str_replace("wp-admin", "admin", $html);
$html = str_replace("wp-includes", "inc", $html);
echo $html; 
?>

Some people may question why I want to hide the fact that we’re using Word Press. There are many reasons (security being one of them) but that’s not really the point to this question.

What code can I add to my .htaccess file that would let me rewrite the urls but keeping the correct query strings such as ?ver=20110622 or ?post=1&action=edit

Answer 1

The [QSA] flag will maintain the query string when rewriting the URL. Example:

RewriteRule ^content/(.*?) wp-content/$1 [QSA]