Question

/podcast/wp/ is a folder, everything else is a virtual directory already generated by RewriteEngine. Here’s the code provided by WordPress:

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

I would like to redirect all requests in the wp/ directory (except for existing folders)

excluding the following possible paths (also virtual directories):

/podcast/wp/ANYSTRING1/ANYSTRING2/feed

to another domain:

example.com

using .htaccess while the excluded path remains working as is.
The goal is to “hide” (redirect) the entire WordPress blog except for the feeds.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Change the wordpress generated rules to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /podcast/wp/

# new stuff
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ![^/]+/[^/]+/feed$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/ [L,R]

# original wordpress stuff
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /podcast/wp/index.php [L]

Depending on how you want to handle the redirect, you can tweak the rule that redirects to http://example.com/. If you want 301 permanent redirects, add a 301:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/ [L,R=301]

If you want to preserve the relative URI in the redirect, use a backreference:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R]

If you want to preserve the entire URI (including the /podcast/wp/ part, use the URI:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]