wordpress rewrite rules for lighttpd

I recently tried to tidy up my hand crafted rewrite rules for wordpress/lighttpd and after a very quick google I was taken to an article titled “URL rewriting for wordpress and lighttpd“. Clearly, I thought my search was over. However, I couldn’t help but notice that one of my previous ramblings PHP was resulting in a blank page being rendered.

There was nothing in the error log (although I’m still twiddling with php-fpm and lighttpd) but I realised that my post title (and URL) ended with “php”. Here’s the rewrite rule:

  url.rewrite-final = (
    # Exclude some directories from rewriting
    "^/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|gallery2)/(.*)" =&gt; "$0",
    # Exclude .php files at root from rewriting
    "^/(.*.php)" =&gt; "$0",
    # Handle permalinks and feeds
    "^/(.*)$" =&gt; "/index.php/$1"
  )
}

But the problem is with:

"^/(.*.php)" =&gt; "$0",

The single unescaped “.” next to “php” will translate to “any character, followed by php”. What we need is:

"^/(.*\.php)" =&gt; "$0",

But, as fate would have it, I only found this out because one of my post titles ended with the word “php”. Filed under coincidence.

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