Redirect to a file in a WordPress theme directory

Question

I have a site where http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/pdf.php creates a pdf of some content based on what's in a cookie.

That URL is pretty ugly. I'd love the url to simply be http://mysite.com/pdf.

I've tried to use mod_rewrite with no success. E.g. In my .htaccess file I have:

RewriteRule ^/pdf$ http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/pdf.php

This just returns a 404. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This isn't strictly a WP question, but this should work - not necessarily the most efficient representation though:

RewriteRule ^(.*mytheme/)pdf.php http://mysite.com/pdf

This (http://martinmelin.se/rewrite-rule-tester/) is a very useful site for testing rewrite rules.

Answer 2

This is what ended up working for me:

RewriteRule ^pdf$ wp-content/themes/my-theme/pdf.php

It looks like removing http://mysite.com was the difference.