Pass parameter to wordpress plugin with pretty url, mod_rewrite, .htaccess

Question

Hi,

I told wordpress that I wanted urls to look like: domain.com/postname.html

I want to pass a parameter to a wordpress plugin. So when I get domain.com/postname.html.2 it is suppose to be domain.com/postname.html?tubepress_page=2

With the following the parameter is passed correctly, but not the name.

This is the .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^.*([0-9]+)$ /?tubepress_page=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>

So for URL domain.com/postname.html.2 the above .htaccess basically works, it gives me the correct parameter to the script, but not the correct page, it gives me the latest wordpress post.

I think it somehow is missing the postname, but I don't know how to specify that in the RewriteRule.

I get the same if I type: domain.com/.2 which gives me the latest post.

So what would be good domain.com/xyz.html.2 to be tubepress_page=2 for the page xyz and I don't want to specify xyz.html anywhere in the htaccess file, since I want to try to avoid typing in things for each new post I make.

How do I specify it so that the postname variable is taken into consideration in the RewriteRule?

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*\.html)\.([0-9]+)$ $1?tubepress_page=$2