Wordpress and static html page .htaccess not working properly

My wordpress has clean urls enabled, it works great... but I'd also like to use rewrite rule for my static pages (it's a site with html static front + wordpress pages).

Here is my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^Levitra\.html$ http://www.domain.com/product.php?item=Levitra
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /articles/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

Wordpress uses:

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

Code (markup):

When I added the following with wordpress codes (above), it doesn't work but it works when the wordpress codes are removed:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^Levitra\.html$ http://www.domain.com/product.php?item=Levitra

Code (markup):

Can anyone help me with combining both? Thanks

 

Hi,

I would try this :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^Levitra\.html$ /product.php?item=Levitra

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

Code (markup):

For information :
- 302 redirect :

RewriteRule ^Levitra\.html$ http://www.domain.com/product.php?item=Levitra

Code (markup):

- pure server rewriting :

RewriteRule ^Levitra\.html$ /product.php?item=Levitra

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc

 

Jean-Luc,

It didn't work. I used the pure server rewriting code (which is what I want to acheve), but it couldn't work with domain.com/Levitra.html. Does this have anything to do with it being an add-on domain? I put the .htaccess in the same directory

 

I am using a very similar .htaccess on my WordPress blog and it works fine. I have no idea where your problem comes from. I assume you put the .htaccess in the root directory of this domain.com.

What do you mean when you write "It didn't work" : error 404 or error 500 or anything else ?

Jean-Luc

 

It gave a "Error 404 - Not Found"

Can I PM you?