id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
4544,WP 404s manual rewrites to index.php,vinskapur,anonymous,"On one of my sites, the permalink structure is set to {{{/news/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/}}} and its category base is {{{/news/categories}}}. I would like to add to and uncomplicate some of these rewrites for categories deserving of their own site sections - {{{/music/}}}, {{{/onair/}}} etc - so I attempted to add the following rewrite in .htaccess as a starting point (before the WP block):

{{{RewriteRule ^(news|onair|events|music)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]}}}

This rewrite actually works on the server side (ie {{{/music/}}} rewrites to {{{/index.php?category_name=music}}}), but something in WordPress throws up the {{{is_404()}}} flag and it returns a file not found error page. I haven't found that something.",defect (bug),closed,normal,,General,2.3,normal,invalid,,