Rewrite Gone Wild

htaccess won't change even though deleted

[rpophessagr]

Hi

I'm running wordpress 3.0.1

I added a link to my htaccess trying to mask a domain. It didn't work so I deleted it. but it's still doing what it wasn't supposed to do. Is there a cache or something with the htaccess I need to clean out?

The file now only contains the stuff wordpress put in, but it's redirected to another page...

Any ideas what I can do?

[jdMorgan]

Yes, delete your browser cache and test again. Only in very rare cases, where hosting companies don't let you directly add and delete files, do you ever run into this 'impossibility.'

Some hosts only let you upload files to a 'virtual' filespace, which they then copy --say only once an hour-- to the real server filespace. It's not a very common set-up, but it does exist. I tend to run away as fast as possible from this kind of set up.

Most likely just your browser cache here, showing you stale server responses and page content.

Jim

[rpophessagr]

Thanks for your reply.

I DID clear the cache.

I added the line
RewriteRule ^jackreichert\.com/network$ jackreichert.net [L]

so in complete code was
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^jackreichert\.com/network$ jackreichert.net [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I thought that if it didn't work I could just delete the line and try something else.
But now www.jackreichert.com jumps to the page www.jackreichert.com/network/

now all that's there is

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[g1smd]

Since RewriteRule cannot test the domain name, that line of code cannot do what you say.

That line accepts a URL request for

www.example.com/jackreichert.com/network

and tries to fetch the file located at the server internal filepath

/var/www/yoursite/jackreichert.net

inside the server.

Or it would, if it wasn't for the previous line rewriting all requests to be processed by the Wordpress script.

[rpophessagr]

Thanks for the explanation. any ideas how to reset it so it acts normal again?

[rpophessagr]

I found the solution. I was running a plugin "Redirection" which was messing things up.

Thanks for all the help