title: Simple Wordpress RewriteRule
body: <p>I'm facing a wordpress / htaccess problem. This should be really simple, but it's not working and I'm getting frustrated.</p>
  
  <p>My site handles permalinks this way: <code>http://www.my-site.com/articles/category/title</code></p>
  
  <p>Now, there is a category I called 'closeup' for which I don't want the URL to show 'article'. So I would like to access content from</p>
  
  <p><code>http://www.my-site.com/articles/closeup/childCategory/title</code></p>
  
  <p>with an URL like this</p>
  
  <p><code>http://www.my-site.com/closeup/childCategory/</code></p>
  
  <p>I already wrote a page that handles the child category showing all articles on the same page.</p>
  
  <p>So I wrote an htaccess rewrite rule as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^closeup/(.*) articles/closeup/$1 [L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tested the htaccess online on a website which allowed me to test my htaccess rules, and it works fine there, but not on my blog. Any tip?</p>
  
  <p>So the whole htaccess is:</p>
  
  <pre><code># BEGIN BS
  
  &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^closeup/(.*) articles/closeup/$1
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # END BS
  
  # BEGIN WordPress
  &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # END WordPress
  </code></pre>