WordPress permalinks and htaccess When you modify the permalinks settings on your WordPress dashboard, these changes will be automatically applied to the .htaccess file, the below images show you how. Empty .htaccess file Immediately after the first access into your WordPress website you’ll find that the .htaccess file was created automatically and put in the …
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The Big Picture Do you agree on that “A picture is worth a thousand words“? If so, then you’ll find the following image is the best way for you to see the big picture of what an Apache URL redirections does, all the involved files are exposed in there. Prerequisite There is one prerequisite to …
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What is Apache mod_rewrite? Apache mod_rewrite provides a way to modify incoming URL requests, dynamically, based on regular expression rules. This allows you to map arbitrary URLs onto your internal URL structure in any way you like, you can take a look at the Apache’s website for more details at the following page: Apache mod_rewrite …
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WordPress Permalinks Having index.php in your WordPress website URLs doesn’t add any value to your visitors, it’s always better to have URLs as short as possible, we don’t want to distract our readers. This change must be done immediately after your website goes online to make sure your site is indexed by search engines using …
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Installing WordPress on CentOS 7 We’ve created a brand new Apache’s Virtual Host and we tested it using a simple, probably the simplest HTML file of all, the next step for us is to replace that file with WordPress because we are going to use that particular CMS (Content Management System) to build our website. …
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