WordPress Breaks rewrite rules

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

RewriteRule ^cats(.+)/?$ /tags$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.+)/?$ /tags/$1 [QSA,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

​http://www.semiologic.com/tags/wordpress/ works
​http://www.semiologic.com/cats/wordpress/ should redirect to the above but does not work

[skippy]

Shouldn't that look like this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^cats(.+)/?$ /tags$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.+)/?$ /tags/$1 [QSA,L]

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Fix:

RewriteRule ^cats(.+)/?$ /tags$1 [r=301,nc,l]

That said, I expect a to see *a lot* of support requests in the forum because of this.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

@ Skippy: indeed, but my .htaccess file is rather long so I cut the top of it.

[matt]

You can't have rewrite rules before RewriteEngine On. This is really more appropiate for the support forum?