Support pretty permalinks

[drzraf]

• Yes, I reviewed the contribution guidelines.

Describe your use case and the problem you are facing

wp server does not handle wp-login.php and, more generally, any WP entry-point other than index.php

Describe the solution you'd like

Hardwiring entrypoints logic (or even parse the htaccess using PHP) in order to support them would make it.

A fully browsable WordPress instance off Apache/nginx/php-fpm would be handy in Q&A situations/simulations. The (probably < 100) lines needed may be worth it.

If login.php is requested by the client, that file would be require'd dynamically.
Some tweaks to $_SERVER may be needed though in order to mimic mod_rewrite behavior.

[alessandro-fazzi]

Hey, not the maintainer here: just a user.

I actually manage to reach http://localhost:8080/wp-login.php w/o any problem. 🤔

[lkraav]

Indeed, wp-login.php and other files work fine.

I think we're actually talking about pretty permalinks here.

Something like this might be necessary https://gist.github.com/scribu/4088244

[drzraf]

I forgot to say I'm using bedrock where the layout is a bit different.

[swissspidy]

WP-CLI already has such a router script, so not sure what's missing there 🤔

[vadimkantorov]

Same problem. I've set up a test with:

sudo service mysql start
sudo mysql <<< "CREATE USER 'wpssguser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'wpssgpass';"
php ./wp-cli.phar core download --path=./wpssgblog --locale=en_US
php ./wp-cli.phar config create --path=./wpssgblog --locale=en_US --dbuser=wpssguser --dbpass=wpssgpass  --dbname=wpssgdb  --dbhost=127.0.0.1
php ./wp-cli.phar db create --path=./wpssgblog
php ./wp-cli.phar core install --path=./wpssgblog --url=wpssgblog.local --title="WP-CLI" --admin_user=wpcli --admin_password=wpcli --admin_email=info@wp-cli.org

Now I'm trying to get pretty permalinks:

php ./wp-cli.phar option set permalink_structure '/%year%-%monthnum%-%day%-%postname%/' --path=./wpssgblog
php ./wp-cli.phar post list --field=url --path=./wpssgblog

php ./wp-cli.phar server --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8080

# http://wpssgblog.local/wpssgblog/2024-01-28-hello-world/
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^ the above does not open, as does not open http://localhost:8080/wpssgblog/index.php/2024-01-28-hello-world/

[vadimkantorov]

If this simple server supports pretty-links, rolling a simple SSG might be as easy as pointing wget --mirror at the local instance of this web server!