Wordpress mod rewrite issues

Adding a file extension

[madmatt69]

Heya,

Hoping someone can help me out with this.

I'm converting a site to wordpress, but need to keep the file extension of some of the page. For example, "mysite.com/topic/thepage.shtml"

Right now as a test I have this code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^uncategorized/hello-world$ topic/thepage.shtml
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

However this doesn't seem to do anything. If I try to edit the 'slug' to 'thepage.shtml' wordpress stips out the '.' leaving me with 'thepageshtml'.

Its really important I keep this particular URL, I can't afford to 301 it to a different url for various reasons.

Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks!

[phranque]

you probably need to escape the dot with a backslash like 'thepage\.shtml'

[madmatt69]

Heya,

Thanks - I just tried that and its still not working..That didn't seem to change anything.

Any other ideas?

[jdMorgan]

Nothing you can do in .htaccess is going to change WP handling of URLs. If you cannot get WP to publish you .shtml link, then you'll need another approach.

Jim