Permalink custom structure: how to get rid of path to blog string?

  • (Before I finished this post, I found a potential solution which I note at the end but am not confident I have understood what the options are.)

    I was using the following structure: https://example.com/site_wc/blog_wp1/archives/123.

    I am trying to change the permalink structure to /%category%/%postname%.html with a string in front of that, “Tech/151-200”, so that the end result is https://example.com/Tech/151-200/151_metadata/filename.html where “151_metadata” is the category.

    I started with the custom structure as “/%category%/%postname%.html” and used the Category base to specify “Tech/151-200” but that failed.

    Then I tried “/Tech/151-200/%category%/%postname%.html”. That produced https://example.com/site_wc/blog_wp1/Tech/151-200/151_metadata/filename.html where “site_wc” is the parent folder for the blog’s folder, “blog_wp1” (i.e., the path from public_html to the blog folder).

    How do I get rid of the unwanted part, “/site_wc/blog_wp1” (without moving the blog folder itself)?

    The Category base works when I specify only <Q>Tech</Q> but with the unwanted string “/site_wc/blog_wp1”.

    The AskApache RewriteRules Viewer reports permalink_structure is “/Tech/151-200/%category%/%postname%.html”; front is “/Tech/151-200/”; and mod_rewrite_rules includes “RewriteBase /site_wc/blog_wp1/”.

    Is the solution the one offered in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/246738?replies=12#post-1329912; namely, in .htaccess , change “RewriteBase /”
    to
    “RewriteBase /blog/” and “/index.php” to “index.php”?

    Any suggestions?

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  • Thread Starter robin_wp

    (@robin_wp)

    Addendum:

    My htaccess consists of the following:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /site_wc/blog_wp1/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /site_wc/blog_wp1/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    What change (if any) would I make to the line RewriteRule . /site_wc/blog_wp1/index.php [L]?

    #BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /site_wc/blog_wp1/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
    Thread Starter robin_wp

    (@robin_wp)

    I changed the one line of code as recommended by AskApache but without effect.

    I found that the changed line had reverted back to the original; i.e., RewriteBase /site_wc/blog_wp1/. I repeated the replacement of the file and got the same result again. The AskApache plugin reported the line was unchanged.

    Something is overwriting the changed line.

    The permalink for a test page was unchanged: https://example.com/site_wc/blog_wp1/Tech/151-200/151-200/199_tmp/test.html

    I haven’t changed the following two General Settings page settings and I would think that they are relevant:

    WordPress address (URL): https://example.com/site_wc/blog_wp1

    Blog address (URL): https://example.com/site_wc/blog_wp1

    So I still haven’t gotten rid of the site_wc/blog_wp1 strings?

    Ideas?

    You can use this plugin:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/html-on-pages/

    Then go to the ‘Permalink’ and set the ‘Custom Structure’ to the HTML file name you want.

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