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Right now, I have a number of files that reside in the root directory, like:
/greengrass.asp
no problem... I also have a large number of files in the following directory:
/lawns/brown-grass.asp
I have my permalinks set so that I get the /greengrass.asp, but what should I do for the /lawns subdirectory?
I could 301 them, but I have so many with great backlinks - as I do with the ones in the main directory.
Is there a way I can do this with the .htaccess beyond what wordpress has there?
Here is what I have for permalinks:
/%postname%.asp
and here is the standard wordpress section from my htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
What I'm trying to accomplish is create posts with the same name and directory structure, but it seems I can only choose one. It would be great if there was a way that I could just edit the filename when editing the post so that it would include the subdirectory...
How should I go about this?
Thanks!
As WP is not and will never be 'perfect' and your requirements may change over time, I strongly suggest that you do not install WP in your root directory; Put it in a subdirectory so that you can easily change to use the 'next big blog program' in 2015, and so you won't have 'collisions' between real filenames and post titles -- For (a somewhat over-simplified) example, with WP in root, you will never be able to post a page with the title of 'robots.txt' because that 'title' exists as a real file, and therefore won't ever be passed to WP. The same would likely be true for titles like "images" and other possible titles that correspond to frequently-used file and directory names.
Jim
