rewrite

Troubleshooting WordPress re-directs (301)

23-Dec-2019

While trying to configure some internal URL re-writing in nginx for a WordPress site, I ran across an annoying issue: Regardless of my re-writing efforts, WordPress would issue a re-direct (301) header (?!) This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if I didn’t want …

URL re-writing with nginx, PHP, and WordPress

23-Dec-2019

There are many posts about nginx, re-directs, PHP, and WordPress. There are somewhat fewer posts that talk about (internal) re-writes, where the request by the web browser is mangled to be served by another resource than the one requested. For example, I may want a …