Cache Files Redirect?

Hey @deeveearr,

Thanks for the extra details and confirming your settings.

Right, so digging into this, the suggestion feature in the plugin works exactly as I thought: it queries your site’s wp_posts database table. It specifically looks for entries that have post_status = ‘publish’ and a post_type matching one from your “Recognized Post Types” list (page, post, product, portfolio, staff, escorts, areas).

Because you’re seeing those weird URLs (like /z0f76a1d…) appear in the suggestions list, it really means they must exist as actual rows in your wp_posts table, marked as ‘publish’ and having one of those post types.

Regarding LiteSpeed Cache, I installed it but I didn’t get any extra entries in the wp_posts table. It seems unlikely that LiteSpeed itself is creating the entries inside the wp_posts table.

I guess it could be another plugin, theme, or some custom code creating the entries in the wp_posts table. It’s possible they are somehow related to cached resources or identifiers, but what would insert them as published posts/pages?

Can you look at the content of the posts to maybe see where they might be coming from? If they’re cached pages, how do they differ from the actual current pages?

In the admin page on wordpress under Posts -> All Posts, do you see the pages there? If so who is listed as the Author? What is their Publish Date?

Cheers,

Aaron

Hi @deeveearr,

Are you able to query your database directly, eg using phpMyAdmin or similar?

If so please query the wp_posts table with something like

SELECT *
FROM wp_posts -- (Replace wp_posts with your actual table name)
WHERE post_name LIKE 'z0f%' -- (Use the start of an actual example URL you still see)
  AND post_status = 'publish'
  AND post_type IN ('page', 'post', 'product', 'portfolio', 'staff', 'escorts', 'areas')

Can you post the results of that query here?

Actually I don’t know what you mean by “Moved To Trash”. I guess you mean there are automatic redirects showing up in 404 Solution on the “Page Redirects” tab and you’re manually clicking the “Trash” button to move them to the trash? Can you include a screenshot of some of those from the plugin settings page?

I’m not sure if it would be helpful, but we could also turn on debug logging under advanced settings and you could paste the debug log to pastebin.com so we can see if there are any issues noted in the log (don’t paste the log here as it’s too big).

Let me know what you want to do.

thanks

Aaron

Hey @deeveearr,

There’s a new version of 404 Solution available and I did two things.

1. On the custom 404 page with the suggested pages you can click the score on the right (only for admins) and see the various page details like the author, post date, etc. It might give us more of an idea of where those pages are coming from.
2. I added a new option to exclude certain URLs based on regular expressions. So if you see a pattern for the unwanted pages that are appearing we can come up with a regular expression to exclude them.

I hope that’s helpful.

Aaron