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1. a_johnson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   All of a sudden, my links look like this:

   http://www........../?page_id=14/?page_id=46

   The page ID 14 is on every link and all the page requests go to it instead of the real ID, the second one.

   Any ideas?

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try resetting permalinks to default (in Dashboard/Settings/Permalinks) and make sure your changes get saved to htaccess. If that doesn't work, post your site URL.

3. a_johnson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I deduced that the problem might be with a corrupt php file in the admin directory. I just uploaded all the files to see. This proved a mistake.

   The admin access went away with some error or another so I just deleted everything and am starting over. I'm looking at it like this, the original iteration was a test to see if I had twp WP brain cells to rub together. I might, but just barely.

   Your comment about htaccess bothers me though, as far as I know, I don't have one. I did create one for my allow/deny rules but I don't think it overwrote anything that was already there.

   Do you know for certain that WP comes with an htaccess natively?

4. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   WP uses htaccess for anything other than standard URLs. After you reinstall, go to Settings/Permalinks and see the capabilities. If you go to any other permalink structure, you need a htaccess with the correct rewrite rules.

   Maybe htaccess got whacked in the beginning from using the wrong encoding in your text editor?

5. a_johnson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yea, anything is possible considering how hamfisted I am with this. I'm not going to touch the permalinks and just add the pages and make the changes checking one at a time.

   If the problem shows back up, I'll repost. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

6. a_johnson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I did another site this past weekend and now this other site is doing this too. I have not touched permalinks and the htaccess has not changed.

   Does anyone know exactly what is causing this and what the cure is? This is on 2.8.5.

7. a_johnson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I figured it out. There is a problem with the documentation. On WP sites where you are using WP as a CMS as well as a blog, you create a page called Blog then WP uses that to house the blog.

   However, you can't actually tell WP what page it is. On the Settings > General page, I was adding the page ID of the Blog page. It just needs to be the name of the web site. So, http://somesite.com/?page_id=3 is wrong, http://somesite.com is correct.

   I have no idea how WP knows where the blog is, but it does.

8. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Putting something like http://somesite.com/?page_id=3 in your Blog or WordPress address would be a problem.

   Review How can I have a static front page and posts display on a page called Blog?

9. a_johnson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yup, there it is for all to see. :)

   I think someone should write a "do these 30 things" type FAQ for those like me who get bored quickly. The technical explanations are great because they lay everything out but if the new user doesn't have a frame of reference or a suitable background then it is glossed over.

   Maybe I'll write it.

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