How do I redirect a page where path exists?

  • Resolved bdd

    (@bws-online)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    I have a page named like this:
    mydomain.com/members

    I have individual member pages named like this:
    mydomain.com/member-profiles/individual-name
    (where “individual-name” is a unique name for each member)

    I do NOT have a page anymore named like this:
    mydomain.com/member-profiles

    I DO have an Elementor carousel named like this:
    mydomain.com/?elementor_library=member-profiles-carousel

    When I attempt to go to mydomain.com/member-profiles it’s redirecting to mydomain.com/?elementor_library=member-profiles-carousel (even though I don’t have anything setting up a redirect like that).

    (I’ve tried renaming the Elementor carousel, but that didn’t help.)

    How do I fix this so that it doesn’t redirect to that Elementor carousel page?

    How can I set up a redirect to handle it if someone tries to go to mydomain.com/member-profiles (so they get sent to mydomain.com/members instead) without messing up the individual member profile URLs that still have /member-profiles/ in them?

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    You want to stop the redirect? You’ll need to find out what is causing it and disable that. Redirection can’t help you stop a redirect.

    Thread Starter bdd

    (@bws-online)

    It’s 2 different issues, I think.

    I think the main one for your input is this:

    I want to set up a redirect so if someone tries to go to this page:
    mydomain.com/member-profiles

    they get sent to this page:
    mydomain.com/members

    and the redirect should NOT send people to
    mydomain.com/members/individual-name

    if they say they want to go to
    mydomain.com/member-profiles/individual-name

    So it’s how to be specific that the redirect is for a path that ends with member-profiles, not a path that has member-profiles in it.

    Can you advise on that, please?

    (I don’t have a redirect set up anywhere that would be triggering the other issue. It feels like maybe something is happening automatically within WordPress?)

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    > So it’s how to be specific that the redirect is for a path that ends with member-profiles, not a path that has member-profiles in it.

    I don’t understand what that means.

    You can use Redirection to redirect from /member-profiles to /members.

    You can use a regular expression to match multiple URLs:

    https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

    Thread Starter bdd

    (@bws-online)

    Thanks. I’ll keep trying.

    I added a redirect as you described, and it’s still sending people to:

    mydomain.com/?elementor_library=member-profiles-carousel

    I don’t have a redirect in for that ANYWHERE, so I’m a bit stumped.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    I don’t have a redirect in for that ANYWHERE, so I’m a bit stumped.

    Other code can perform redirects, not just Redirection.

    Thread Starter bdd

    (@bws-online)

    Thanks, yes I know that. Nothing in .htaccess, nothing in cPanel, no other plugins.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    You’ve not given a real URL so I can’t try it myself. If it’s not in Redirection then something else is redirecting it. For example, Elementor itself.

    Thread Starter bdd

    (@bws-online)

    I know, sorry. (Live client site, can’t post on a forum.)

    Thanks, I’ll keep searching.

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