Odd Undesired Redirection
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Hi, I run a small blog https://www.mtgovideos.com and some of my content providers are running into an odd problem.
Upon trying to navigate to their content folder that stores their media, some of my authors are redirected to a post of theirs.
For example a user mellamopobrede would attempt to access his media that is rooted at https://www.mtgovideos.com/mellamopobrede however, upon attempting to navigate to this URL one is redirected to this blog entry https://www.mtgovideos.com/2008/11/06/mellamopobredes-aaa-1/ .
I did some research and found this nifty tool that will let me check server headers to what kind of redirection was done and possibly find more information about how it is happening.
If you go to https://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp and type in https://www.mtgovideos.com/mellamopobrede it gives us the following output:
#2 Server Response: https://www.mtgovideos.com/mellamopobrede/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:15:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
X-Pingback: https://www.mtgovideos.com/blog/xmlrpc.php
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:15:38 GMT
Location: https://www.mtgovideos.com/2008/11/06/mellamopobredes-aaa-1/
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Redirect Target: https://www.mtgovideos.com/2008/11/06/mellamopobredes-aaa-1/The line that caught my attention was the X-Pingback line with the link to that php file, so I looked at the php file and came across the pingback_ping function. I’m almost positive that this is what is causing this undesired redirection I’m just not sure how I would attempt to fix it. Furthermore, I’m guessing there is another more elegant fix that might be available.
Thanks in advance for the help, and let me know if any additional information is required.
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