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By Thierry Schellenbach on 05 Sep 2007

Usually .htaccess for Wordpress is set automatically when you change the permalink settings.

Unfortunately for me the Wordpress system was not working properly. When I wrote the first posts on this blog however I did not bother to deal with the issue. Doing so leaves you with two problems:

1. How to set .htaccess
2. How to ensure the links to your old posts get redirected

After reading the great mod_rewrite documentation and combining that with a great .htaccess files here my solution.

In order to deal with the old posts:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=11$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mellowmorning.com/2007/08/27/picture-resizing-on-steroids/? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=3$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mellowmorning.com/2007/08/18/ten-reasons-why-symfony-rocks-part-1/? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=4$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mellowmorning.com/2007/08/12/barcamp-events/? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^feed=atom&cat=1$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mellowmorning.com/category/symfony/feed/? [R=301,L]

Note that HTTP_HOST and QUERY_STRING are by not included in the conditions checked by RewriteRule. The rewrite rule only ge"