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2009-10-20, 02:46 PM | #1 |
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how do i make my blog url, whatever.com/main.html
how do i make my blog url, whatever.com/main.html
so i can use a warning page its an existing site so its gotta be main.html
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2009-10-20, 02:51 PM | #2 |
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I'm not sure how you change your blog's default index page but you can add a line in htaccess to change what is the default index page.
DirectoryIndex warning.html index.html index.htm The above will cause warning.html to become the default index page and if that isn't found then index.html and if that isn't found then index.htm etc. |
2009-10-20, 03:39 PM | #3 |
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yeah but I wanna keep the existing structure
so I need a main page which right now is main.html
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2009-10-20, 03:45 PM | #4 |
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What page loads when you go to the root of the domain now?
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2009-10-20, 03:47 PM | #5 |
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the blog index.php
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2009-10-20, 03:58 PM | #6 |
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I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.
domain.com/index.php is what loads now and you want that to be the main page instead of the root page so that you can throw up a warning page. DirectoryIndex index.html index.php The above will cause index.html to load when you go to your domain and you can then put a link on index.html that goes to index.php so that you don't have to touch the existing structure. |
2009-10-20, 04:06 PM | #7 |
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Settings, Reading, Front Page Displays:
A static page, Front Page - page needs to be a page created by Wordpress Or, do you want to hit http://blog.com/main.html and have the blog show up? Code:
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^main.html$ index.php [L]
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2009-10-20, 04:19 PM | #8 | |
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yes thats what i want http://www.blog.com/main.html and have the blog show up but when i added the code to the htaccess it didnt work. it gave me the word press 404 page and the root of the domain still loads index.php this is what i got in the htaccess file RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^main.html$ index.php [L] RewriteOptions inherit RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([a-z0-9-]+\.)*domain.com [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(asf|mpg|mpeg|wmv|avi|rm|gif|jpe|jpg)$ http://www.domain.com/ [NC,R,L] # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
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2009-10-20, 04:45 PM | #10 |
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What I would do then is create a static page within Wordpress to be your warning page, change it to display the warning page.
Then, when someone hits the front page of your blog, wordpress will show your crafted warning page, and then you can send them to the posts page. All of this is done within wordpress. I see why that rule doesn't work.... and offhand, I don't see an elegant solution for that.
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2009-10-20, 05:50 PM | #11 |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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2009-10-20, 09:24 PM | #12 |
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warning.html is your warning page. Easy enough to put that in as a static file as wordpress only answers if there is no actual file present.
main.html is your main page -- this is where the problem starts. Since that page doesn't exist, wordpress is going to handle it and look for main.html as a permalink, which it won't find, which means wordpress will show a 404 page. Since the 404 page hands an error 404, even if you customize your 404 template to look right, google will see the 404 and remove it. Rewrites do literally nothing unless you want to do a redirect. If you don't to the rewrite, you will find that your internal links on the blog will not work correctly. Even going to http://yourblog.com/index.php, wordpress redirects it to http://yourblog.com/ To have the blog answer as main.html and work without a redirect, I'm not sure. Since main.html is an invalid permalink structure, the main.html portion will be the difficult part. With some simple experimentation, I wasn't able to get it to do what you wanted. So, if you wanted to have warning.html, you can create that file and it will be served. If you do DirectoryIndex to make the warning.html your primary, your blog won't show up properly if you use permalinks. I think this might be one of those situations where dropping it in place MIGHT prove difficult. Can you 301 the main.html to your main blog page? or is it 100% set in stone that you have to have main.html?
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2009-10-21, 12:04 AM | #13 |
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For the record, it's easy to setup a page within WP that is your default front page instead of the normal blog page. The best instructions I've found is here http://www.richandstephsipe.com/word...atic-homepage/
What I do is I take page.php, rename it to whatever, home, welcome, etc. and then edit it to look the way I want. I call mine home-page-template.php. You'll need to add the following code to the top of the template as well Code:
<?php /* Template Name: Home Page Template */ ?> Then under settings/reading set the front page to the page you just created. Now create another new page, call it anything you want but this will be your blog. Under attributes/templates select default template. Then go back to settings/reading and set this page as the page for post pages. If you want to see an example.... http://obsessedgirls.com/ |
2009-10-21, 04:57 AM | #14 |
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That is a good solution. Walrus.
One that I use is simply to put the blog in a directory and put a warning page on the root. There are several advantages to this, one of which is you have two distinct parts of the domain on which to do link exchanges. It also provides another page on which to exchange good links. Following is one of the sites I do that on. It has an SEO landing page in front, and a link to the blog at the bottom. Older Women R Us I intend to add a small review section in another subdirectory. I have also experimented with having the blog on a sub-domain and that has other advantages and disadvantages, but really does not address the core root issue of a warning page. Last edited by whitey; 2009-10-21 at 05:30 AM.. |
2009-10-21, 10:56 AM | #15 |
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I got it to work !!!!!!
I used this in my htaccess to force the index.html - warning page DirectoryIndex index.html Then I installed this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html-on-pages/ which makes all the pages html then i created a new page called main and set that as the posts page it was really simple and it works perfectly
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2009-10-21, 11:12 AM | #16 |
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Why does the blog extension have to be .html? It's a php file.
You could have moved the index.php to blog.php and then use index.php for the warning page. Then in General->Settings type in blog.php for the blog url. |
2009-10-21, 11:24 AM | #17 |
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because its an existing AVS site that has traffic going to main.html and the warning page
its done really poorly in the search engines and I am hoping that a blog would do better and I think the blog posts can help sell the avs membership
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2009-10-21, 11:29 AM | #18 |
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All this time I thought it was already a blog.
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2009-10-21, 12:45 PM | #19 |
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Pretty elegant solution to getting WP to replace run and existing, html structured site.
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