I have a wordpress site where when a person arrives at domain.com/variable I am using htaccess to rewrite the url to become domain.com/?ref=variable
This works fine except that when a page exists that also gets rewritten unless followed with a forward slash / so for example, I have a page called /members and if you went to
domain.com/members that would be rewritten to domain.com/?ref=members which is NOT what I want.
If you go to domain.com/members/ (with the forward slash at the end) then the rewrite does not happen which is what I do want to happen
Is there any way that I can stop the rewrite happening when a person goes to domain.com/members (without the forward slash?)
This is what I have…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-_]+)$ index.php/?ref=$1 [R,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Thanks in advance
Steve
