.htaccess in wordpress site issue

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1. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /blog/
   
   #If the file requested is index.php from the current folder(here: blog)
   #do not do anything
   RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
   
   #if other requests are not regular files or directories,
   #redirect it to /blog/index.php
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
   
   </IfModule>
   

   Do not remove any of the above rules. They are fine & required. In fact, I would suggest you to add this as well:

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
   

   From rewritecond ^{apache docs} :
   -f, -d & -l are variants of CondPatterns. Instead of real regular expression strings.

   • ‘-d’ (is directory)
     Treats the TestString as a pathname and tests whether or not it exists, and is a directory.
   • ‘-f’ (is regular file)
     Treats the TestString as a pathname and tests whether or not it exists, and is a regular file.
   • ‘-l’ (is symbolic link)
     Treats the TestString as a pathname and tests whether or not it exists, and is a symbolic link.

   if prefixed by an exclamation mark (‘!’) it leads to negate their meaning. i.e. !-f means is not a regular file.

   ---

   For redirecting from non www to www urls use this in your .htaccess in your DocumentRoot:

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /
   
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301] 
   

   • flag_nc(nocase) ^{apache docs}
   • flag_l(last) ^{apache docs}
   • flag_r(redirect) ^{apache docs}
   • R=301 is for permanent redirect

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