Title: Mysterious redirection(?) Last modified: June 11, 2019 --- # Mysterious redirection(?) * Resolved [g00se](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g00se/) * (@g00se) * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/) * There seems to be some sort of mysterious redirection going on when i try to access the site at [http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/](http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/) * A static file, such as [http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/license.txt](http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/license.txt) comes out fine but the attempt to access the homepage seems to land on a page of the company that hosts technojeeves.com. I really can’t see why. Is it WordPress doing this or what (after all it does say X-Redirect-By: WordPress)? I’ve attached a wget debug log of the attempt to get the homepage: * ================== Setting –output-document (outputdocument) to – DEBUG output created by Wget 1.18 on linux-gnu. * ``` Reading HSTS entries from /home/goose/.wget-hsts URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’ --2019-06-10 23:31:53-- http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/index.php Resolving fostamells.technojeeves.com (fostamells.technojeeves.com)... 109.157.223.23 Caching fostamells.technojeeves.com => 109.157.223.23 Connecting to fostamells.technojeeves.com (fostamells.technojeeves.com)|109.157.223.23|:80... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x000055ada7807f40 (new refcount 1). ---request begin--- GET /index.php HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Wget/1.18 (linux-gnu) Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Host: fostamells.technojeeves.com Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:31:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) X-Redirect-By: WordPress Location: http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/ Content-Length: 0 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 ---response end--- 301 Moved Permanently Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. URI content encoding = ‘UTF-8’ Location: http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/ [following] ] done. URI content encoding = None --2019-06-10 23:31:53-- http://fostamells.technojeeves.com/ Reusing existing connection to fostamells.technojeeves.com:80. Reusing fd 3. ---request begin--- GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Wget/1.18 (linux-gnu) Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Host: fostamells.technojeeves.com Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:31:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Last-Modified: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:10:32 GMT ETag: "8d6-524b8e5d3d200" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 2262 Vary: Accept-Encoding Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html ---response end--- 200 OK Length: 2262 (2.2K) [text/html] Saving to: ‘STDOUT’ New Hosting Account is now Active
0K .. 100% 219M=0s 2019-06-10 23:31:53 (219 MB/s) - written to stdout [2262/2262] ================================= ``` - This topic was modified 7 years ago by [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/). - This topic was modified 7 years ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmysterious-redirection-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11626932) * 1. Contact your host. This is most likely a hosting issue. * 2. Delete “index.hmtl” in the root of your site, if it’s there. index.php is the critical file for WP. * 3. What’s in your .htaccess file? * Thread Starter [g00se](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g00se/) * (@g00se) * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11626997) * Thanks. Distinct progress. Number 2 was the significant move. ‘Plain’ permalink will work but not ‘Post name’.This is my .htaccess: * ================== # Switch rewrite engine off in case this was installed under HostPay. RewriteEngine Off * SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 53 * DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.php * # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!- d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] * # END WordPress ================================== * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11627535) * That error with the permalinks indicates that your host is not processing .htaccess correctly. * 1. Upgrade PHP. PHP 5.3 is *not acceptable*. 2. Ask your host about .htaccess. * Or are you hosting this yourself? * Thread Starter [g00se](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g00se/) * (@g00se) * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11627559) * > Or are you hosting this yourself? * Yes. It’s running on Debian Stretch. I’m using PHP 7.0 * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11627572) * First, try removing the stuff outside of the BEGIN/END WORDPRESS block. If that doesn’t fix it, then try the following. * If you’re using Apache, find the config file for your VirtualHost for this site and add * ``` AllowOverride All ``` * then restart Apache. The default is “None”, which cases Apache to ignore what’s in .htaccess. * Thread Starter [g00se](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g00se/) * (@g00se) * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11627615) * `AllowOverride All` needed setting in my vhost config. Thanks Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Mysterious redirection(?)’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [g00se](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g00se/) * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-redirection-2/#post-11627615) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics