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1. bdrifter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello all!

   I've just encountered a bizarre situation. My WP is in the subfolder /blog of my root directory. Everything works perfectly fine, except that when I visit the url mydomain.com/blog/, it gets 404'd, which is expected I guess? But it also gets redirected to mydomain.com/2011/03/25/blog-2/. There is no such page or post, nor have I ever created one, though I don't remember the link behaving like this before. Any thoughts? I can simply redirect /blog to the root directory through the .htaccess, but I'm more puzzled by the cause.

   here's my .htaccess if needed:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   
   # END WordPress
   
   <Files wp-config.php>
   order allow,deny
   deny from all
   </Files>
   
   Options -Indexes

   The wp-config was moved to the root directory for security purposes, so that's fine.

   Cheers.

2. bdrifter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello again. I tried out a few possible solutions but nothing worked. Also I realised my previous explanation sounded confused and confusing and needed some clarifying:

   My WP address is at - mydomain.com/blog/
   and I set my site address to - mydomain.com
   I have other subdirectories under the root such as
   mydomain.com/media/ and
   mydomain.com/misc/
   but I disabled directory listing in my .htaccess so these subdirectories return a 404. And they work fine. But when I enter
   mydomain.com/blog/
   instead of being redirected to mydomain.com/ or getting a 404 for mydomain.com/blog/ I get redirected and get a 404 at
   mydomain.com/2011/03/25/blog-2/

   The thing is there's no such post at this date. And it only just turned up recently. So I found it rather bizarre...

   I hope that makes things abit clearer! Cheers :D

3. bdrifter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello again. I've resolved the issue. Turns out that day I created a page named 'blog' and deleted it shortly after, but the entry wasn't wiped from the wp_posts table so mydomain.com/blog/ kept redirecting to that ghost page. I solved it simply by deleting that entry. Hope that helps anyone with similar issues!

4. bdrifter
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Oops, very very sorry, that was a mistake. The "ghost page" I referred to turned out to be a custom menu item, which happened to be called "blog". I noticed my menu was missing something just after I updated this thread. So I guess custom menu items are treated as posts? Really? And the takeaway then is to not name menu items after a directory I suppose...that was unexpected.

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