htaccess regex wordpress not working - regex

Question

I have a wordpress site set up with some custom redirect rules set up. The weird thing is I am sure these all of these were working before but now some of them no longer function.
Here is the complete htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^properties/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z\+\'.]+) /properties/?prov=$1&city=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^properties/([0-9]+) /properties/?id=$1 [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ /properties/?id=$1 [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^expand.php?id=([0-9]+) /properties/?id=$1 [R,NC]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
right now the only rule that actually works (other than the directory change for wordpress itself) is
RewriteRule ^([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ /properties/?id=$1 [R,NC]
I've tried throwing in simple rules to test, like
RewriteRule ^/bob /contact [R,NC]
but that doesn't work either
* Edit the below issue was fixed and is definitely not related to the issue above (but I'll leave it here in case there was a comment that referenced it)*
Also, not sure if this gives any insight but on the page where the redirect actually works, my wordpress theme is broken, the wp_footer never fires and the rest of the page fails

Answer 1

Have it like this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^bob/?$ /about [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^properties/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z+'.]+)/?$ /properties/?prov=$1&city=$2 [R,NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(?:properties/)?([0-9]+)/?$ /properties/?id=$1 [R,QSA,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

Answer 2

There are a couple of possible causes... You aren't enabling mod_rewrite until after your RewriteRules, the custom rules should be included inside their own <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> tag with RewriteEngine on preceding them, and you probably want to set RewriteBase to whatever the root of your site is (perhaps /wordpress subdirectory? you may want to include what you would like these rules to rewrite to and from.) You cannot match on a querystring within a RewriteRule either, you have to use a RewriteCond.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^properties/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z\+\'.]+) /properties/?prov=$1&city=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^properties/([0-9]+) /properties/?id=$1 [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{5,5})$ /properties/?id=$1 [R,NC]
</IfModule>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Also updated ^([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ to the form ^([0-9]{5,5})$ which is a bit more readable.
Your example/test should look like the following - omit the / because it is set in the RewriteBase.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^bob /about [R,NC]
</IfModule>