Does this also work for dynamic pages in a subfolder??

I am a bit stuck with my setup.

I have WP in my root
I have a folder Jobs with php files which connects with the DB and do some searches and outputs them.
-WP
–jobs
–other appl.

In my ideal situation i want to use

db content

in jobs

But also SEO friendly url’s like
jobs/sector/job-detail
jobs/sub-sector/search-detail/job-detail

so now i have an index.php in jobs looking like
require(‘./../wp-blog-header.php’);
get_header();

But i realize WP will return a page not found with jobs, jobs/$1/ jobs/$1/$2 etc

What should i do??

Jared, try adding the “[L]” flag at the end of the line, like this:

RewriteRule ^product/([0-9]+)/$ /product.php?sku=$1 [L]

That flag makes that line the last to be executed, only if your pattern matches. In case your pattern doesn’t match, the line is skipped and the WR’s ones will be executed.

PS: Excuse my English, since it’s not my native language :S

A better solution: Make the index file into a WordPress template. In WordPress, edit the front page and set its template to that new template. No monkeying with .htaccess is necessary.

This is how I do it on this site. The front page at http://striderweb.com/ runs off of WordPress, but it’s basically a hard HTML file.

1.change the filename in the wordpress root from index.php to a filename like base.php

2.I use wordpress >htaccess if you have permalinks enabled:
change in .htaccess in the line RewriteRule index.php to base.php + make the file not writable, because as soon you add a page wordpress, wordpress rewrites the .htaccess

results:
http://www.domain.com -> shows http://www.domain.com/index.htm
http://www.domain.com/anyPageNameFromWordpress -> brings up wordpress
then you can navigate inside the wordpress files
If you have chosen page “home” as your static page that button brings you to shows http://www.domain.com/index.htm – although you can disable the static page choice and activate it when the site is launched in wordpress.

Hope this helps others
Michael

Not sure if WordPress will like that though…

I have an existing website in a directory with htm files – directory/index.htm
I have also installed wp in the same directory – directory/index.php

I would like that the request
http://www.doamin.com/directory would use the index.htm
(currently the index.php overrides the index.htm)
but the wp should still work if I use for example
http://www.doamin.com/directory/index.php
or http://www.doamin.com/directory/blog

I tried your above script but do not get it to work.
Any help appreciated.
Michael

The method described here completely overwrites a page with a static HTML page. I don’t think you can do it on WordPress.com.

If you mean modifying the template on an install you’re hosting yourself… just modify the template files!