WordPress and .htaccess

I decided to install WordPress which is the server installation type blog software which I was interested in long before.WordPress is one of the applications which Movable Type has a rival relation with.

There are two blogs, an English blog and a Japanese blog, in this site. It decided to update the Japanese one with MovableType and the English one with WordPress.

I installed WordPress to a subdirectory of the server, However I wanted WordPress to power root ( http://www.yuhasan.com/ ) but I didn't want all of the WordPress files cluttering up root directory.

WordPress already gives us the solution for this request. It is described in http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

I tried this method and through this I learned the behavior of .htaccess. Especially the mod_rewite function is cool. I like this function :-)

In this site, WordPress automatically added the following sentences into the existing .htaccess file. These sentenses are the mystic words of magic.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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