Title: Automatic Redirection issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Automatic Redirection issues

 *  [abovesound](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abovesound/)
 * (@abovesound)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-automatic-redirection-issues/)
 * _[Moderator Note: Topic title amended. Your problem is no more urgent than anyone
   else’s.]_
 * Hi Guys! I’ve been dealing with a problem on my clients website that I have yet
   to figure out. This is an urgent issue so I’m hoping someone can just help with
   the answer rather then tell me my website is fine and I should leave it alone.
   The problem is NOT fine and it’s having negative effects on my SEO.
 * Problem: My website is arashlaw.com .
 *  when you type in ANYTHING after my root domain (even if its not an actual page
   on my website) the server automatically redirects to the home page.
 * Example: [http://arashlaw.com/laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa](http://arashlaw.com/laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa)
 * It SHOULD just give me a 404 page. I can’t for the love of god figure out why
   this is happening. We had some redirection plugin installed before but I disabled
   all plugins and deleted .htaccess on my server – Nothing. No matter what I do,
   non existent pages still bring you to the home page. I need these to return as
   404.
 * Any guidance is much appreciated, please help!

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 *  [canah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canah/)
 * (@canah)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-automatic-redirection-issues/#post-4360129)
 * Hi,
 * [Please check this out](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-pages-except-blog-frontpage-redirecting-to-site-home?replies=9)–
   here you are described similar problem.
 *  Thread Starter [abovesound](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abovesound/)
 * (@abovesound)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-automatic-redirection-issues/#post-4360135)
 * Thanks for the link, but that did not solve my problem.
 * The conclusion in that post is to change the .htaccess with settings that don’t
   make sense for my setup. That user was unable to access any page on his website.
   I AM able to access the real pages. The problem is that non-existing pages redirect
   to home page when they should return a 404.
 * Any other ideas? Thanks in advance!
 *  [canah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canah/)
 * (@canah)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-automatic-redirection-issues/#post-4360138)
 * Hmm.. I’m not sure if it’s a good solution, but try to force redirect using this
   [instruction](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/91900/how-to-force-a-404-on-wordpress).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [canah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canah/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-automatic-redirection-issues/#post-4360138)
 * Status: not resolved

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