I've written a Wordpress plugin which creates .html files. I'm trying to get it so that when a visitor hits sitename.com/newsletters it shows the index.php file in /wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/files
Of course, the index.php file is a list of all the other files in the directory, so when someone hits sitename.com/newsletters/january.html the browser loads /wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/files/january.html, but the URL remains http://sitename.com/newsletters/january.html
I thought this should take care of it, but it's not working. Just gives me a "Post not found" error.
RewriteRule ^newsletters/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/files/$1 [L]
Here's my .htaccess file
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^newsletters/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/files/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Your rule looks good and does what it is supposed to do.
But in an .htaccess file, when a URL is rewritten, the resulting URL is fed back into the rules once more.
There it skips RewriteRule ^newsletters/..., and comes to RewriteRule . /index.php. But index.php, the main entry point for Wordpress doesn't know about your files in /wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/files/.
To fix this, you must prevent index.php swallowing your rewrite. You can do this by prefixing your RewriteRule with
RewriteRule ^wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/files/ - [L]
which exits the rule chain without rewriting further.
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