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Preview for draft posts not showing up

Hello,

I've successfully rewritten my urls however the preview for draft posts aren't showing the post correctly. The line I have in my .htaccess is:

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/preview$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&preview=all [L]

any ideas?
Chima Nwosu

Chima Nwosu 0 points

  • 4 years ago
Simon Clay

Simon Clay 127 points

4 years ago

The syntax looks right. Do 'published' posts view correctly? What order do you have it in your htaccess file?
Chima Nwosu

Chima Nwosu 0 points

4 years ago

Hey Simon,

htaccess below

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/preview$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&preview=all [L]

RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?year=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^(css)($|/) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(perch)($|/) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(images)($|/) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(js)($|/) - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
Duncan Revell

Duncan Revell 78 points
Registered Developer

4 years ago

This line

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/preview$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&preview=all [L]

needs to be before this line

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L]

And this line

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&page=$2 [L]

isn't going to work as there isn't a second set of ( ) to pass to $2 - the page thing will never work.

You'll probably have to change the order of your blog/category rules too.
Chima Nwosu

Chima Nwosu 0 points

4 years ago

Hey Duncan,

Thank for this, I've done some rearranging and still haven't had any luck. Code is below:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/preview$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&preview=all [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>