Subsite links reverts to main site pages

  • Resolved grangerwork

    (@grangerwork)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    I have a primary site laspace.lsu.edu that has its own theme and build. I have a few subsites with their own design and wordpress install as well — laspace.lsu.edu/aces. For years, this has worked fine. Sites never intruded on any other site. However in the past month, all pages in a subsite, except the main page, revert to the primary site. The only real thing that has changed all the primary and all subs is that I upgraded to 5.4.1. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this issue?

    Edit: I can access the admin dashboards of all subsites. It is just any calls to content on the subsites get refered back to the main site.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by grangerwork.
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  • Jacob Smith

    (@smithjw1)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    That is super weird!

    I wonder what would happen if you changed the permalink structure. Grasping at straws a little bit, but it’s something to try.

    Thread Starter grangerwork

    (@grangerwork)

    3 years, 10 months ago

    Agreed. I am a bit stuck as to what I can do here. I will try the permalink change.
    I think I am also going to create a new subsite and see if a instance will have the same problem. Otherwise I am at a loss as to what happened.

    Thread Starter grangerwork

    (@grangerwork)

    3 years, 10 months ago

    I think I have got things working again. I had to;
    1. log into the admin console of one of the subsites
    2. go to settings/General settings and reset the 2 URL addresses and save
    3. go to settings/permalink and set my common setting to postname again and save.
    4. go back to settings/General settings and and make sure the 2 URLs are still correct, if not correct again and save.

    Once I did this, all the subsites appear to be working properly again. I am not really sure what is going on but everything appears to be working fine now. very odd. Thank you for the suggestion Jacob @smithjw1

    Jacob Smith

    (@smithjw1)

    3 years, 10 months ago

    Glad that worked! Updating permalinks does some secret magic.

    Thread Starter grangerwork

    (@grangerwork)

    3 years, 10 months ago

    Actually that did not solve the problem but I believe I have found the root cause. For some reason there was a new rule in the IIS rewrite module causing calls to subsite pages to using the main site. Once I disabled that rule, everything began to work properly. I am not sure why that rule was even there. everything is now working as intended. thanks again.

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