Rewrite-Rules not working on a vhost, everything goes to index.php

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after setting up the wordpress htaccess rules in my vhost, i was unable to enter the wp-admin area. I was always redirected to the frontpage of my wordpress instance.

The rewriting itself worked on the mainpage. All links worked so far, but the admin area remains without any access.

Rewrite rules used:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Personally i dont know where to start looking, im even unable to find that problem over google, which is kinda rare – maybe someone over here knows where the problem is to be located.

3 Answers
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I’m not sure if this helps but its good practice, include the BEGIN and END WordPress comments around your rules as well as the check for mod_rewrite:

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

Also:

  • Do not apply these rules until you have chosen and saved permalinks in the admin area, only once you have done this should you setup the .htaccess file
  • The Comments are used by plugins to allow rewriting of the htaccess file without messing up the core wordpress rules
  • Make sure your rewrite base is set correctly

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