TriLogic Sandbox

I recently stopped promoting/supporting one of my all time favorite projects – KudzuASP.   KudzuASP is an advanced template engine for Classic ASP.  While I still answer the occassional question about it I don’t need a subdomain or forum. There are those who are still looking for information and the most recent download and rather than let the browser kick back a 404 page for a non-existent sub-domain I decided to route them to a page on the sandbox site using Mod Rewrite. 

Here’s the lines I added to the .htaccess file.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} kudzu.trilogicllc.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sandbox.trilogicllc.com/kudzuasp/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.kudzu.trilogicllc.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sandbox.trilogicllc.com/kudzuasp/ [R=301,L]

Now I’m routing EVERYTHING from the KudzuASP subdomain to a single page in the Wordpress blog space that says I’ve dropped support for the project.  Is anyone still working in Classic ASP?  Here’s the kicker:  I don’t want this page to show up in the menu system but I still want to be able to view it. 

I’ve heard you can do this in Wordpress by creating a page and then leaving it unpublished once you’ve finished it.  I’d prefer to have a checkbox that says “Show in Menus” on something but until the method I just mentioned doesn’t work. Unless I’m already logged in to the site I still get a 404 page. Until a more workable solution presents itself I’ll just have to make the page public.

~A