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1. mikedark
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   i have a site where the main blog page is not on the homepage, instead i had it on a subpage mysite.com/domain-blog/

   today i realized in the general settings that i had both:

   homepage: mysite.com
   blog address: mysite.com

   so i wanted to change the blog address to the blogs homepage.

   now take a breath ..

   I also wanted to shorten my blogs homepage from mysite.com/domain-blog down to mysite.com/blog

   now i updated my blog address in general settings, and I am encountering a problem, that i dont understand.

   now when i go to my blog page, the url is mysite.com/blog/domain-blog

   when i try to edit a page on the backend, or add a new page, it appears as mysite.com/blog/blog or mysite.com/blog/new-page

   also the homepage link now goes to mysite.com/blog (it should just go to mysite.com)

   i thought to update permalinks, and when i go to that page i see in the bottom, i see the following:

   If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /blog/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   however my .htaccess is writable (644, as recommended by wordpress.org) and even still i tried using that code and then the site returned internal server errors (500s). the only difference in this above code and what was already in my .htaccess file was RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L] .... this is clearly wrong as you can see, the /blog/ should not be there in front of the index.php (so why is wordpress suggesting this?)

   i am confused as to how to resolve this

2. mikedark
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   to update. i just changed my blog address in general settings back to mysite.com. i then went to edit my hompage, and observed that the url was mysite.com (nothing out of the ordinary)

   now to doublecheck, i went back and again updated my blog address in general settings to mysite.com/blog, and then went back to edit the homepage and now the url for my homepage appeared as mysite.com/blog

   there seems to be something wacky going on in the database ...

3. mikedark
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   update. this is really getting bizarre. I have now entirely deleted the blog page from my wordpress admin. in 'edit pages' i trashed it. yet when i go to my website, and click on the blog link, and go to mysite.com/domain-blog/ everything appears just as normal.

   so the page /domain-blog/ no longer exists, my blog address in general settings is mysite.com, yet if i go to mysite.com/domain-blog/ there is my blog with all the posts just like normal

4. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   yup...i'm totally confused by what you are doing/saying...

   where are the files physically located? that should be where the general settings point...period

   is domain-blog a page you made within wordpress? or a folder where you installed to?

   Here's my generic copy'n'paste links
   I'm sure you are familiar with this stuff....the url should be pointing to the files
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

   If you want to change the url then do it properly
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
   or
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

   Anytime you mess with these settings its a good idea to reset permalinks. Save them back to default, test your site, then go back to custom

5. mikedark
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   if my blogs address is at mysite.com/blog, and i set the blog address in general settings to mysite.com/blog, then it shouldnt adjust every other page of my website to mystie.com/blog/page-1, mysite.com/blog/page-2, etc. etc.

   make sense?

   i just found another example for you, although i hate posting links to my sites on support boards.

   http://www.vitalinternetventures.com

   here was the same thing. the 'news' page is supposed to be my blog homepage. you can see that every other page now has a /news/ subdirectory in front of it. why did wordpress create this subdirectory when i changed 'blog address' in general settings?

6. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   if you set the general settings to mysite.com/blog, you are telling WP that the files for WP are in a subdirectory called blog. everything will be based off of that. mysite.com/blog/whatever

   if you make a page in WP, and you want it to be your homepage, you don't touch general settings. You go to settings->reading and set the page as your blogs static front page from the dropdown.....

7. mikedark
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   brainfart.

   next question -

   now that i already deleted the page 'blog', when i create a new page called 'blog', and save it, wordpress automatically converts the url to 'blog-2'.

   what is the best way to fix this?

   thanks

8. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   empty your trash, from the edit page menu you should see a link to do that

9. mikedark
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   thank you that was helpful. i didnt know you could empty trash

10. Rev. Voodoo
    Volunteer Moderator
    Posted 1 year ago #

    yup, a lot of people haven't noticed that option, and run into the same problem with numbers being tacked onto url's. Glad things are getting straightened out for ya!

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