URL rewriting via Wordpress Rewrite or .htaccess

Question

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Let\'s say I have a Wordpress blog: www.animals.com. I have a certain PHP file in my t

Answer 1

There is another way to solve it, without touching WordPress.

Add to .htaccess

RewriteRule ^lion /indexw.php?pagename=db&dios=$1 [L,E=URI:/detail/]

Create file indexw.php:

How it works? mod_rewrite sets REDIRECT_URI as specified in E=URI:value argument. indexw.php just overwrites REQUEST_URI with correct value (Thanks to Ravi Thapliyal for an insight on this)