WebsiteBaker 2.13.8 is now available!
R.I.P Dietmar (luisehahne) and thank you for all your valuable work for WBhttps://forum.websitebaker.org/index.php/topic,32355.0.html
changing the pages dir from /pages to something else can only be done before a page is created in WB (only with a clean install without any pages). If you do this after a page is created your whole site is broken and all pages ar no more reachable anymore. Also setting the pages dir to the root only works on server where you have full write permissions in the root directory. This is on a lot of servers not the case.
as far as i know the only affect of modrewrite is the a page is reachable also if you typ a url without the pages dir, but the physical place of the page stays always in the pages dir.