Issues related to DNS records?

Sorry, I’m just not aware of anything domain-specific about the plugin. Are the URLs in the admin correct?

Thanks for responding! Yes, both the WordPress and Site URLs are set to https://www.mydomain.com (I’m using ‘mydomain’ instead of the real one).

In Better Random Redirect, the main randomizer URL field is set to exactly e/message-board, so the full randomizer URL is https://www.mydomain.com/e/message-board/

In my hosts file, I have the following two entries:
##.###.##.### www.mydomain.com
##.###.##.### mydomain.com

When I visit https://www.mydomain.com/e/message-board/ on the new host, it just stays at https://www.mydomain.com/e/message-board/. I can navigate directly to any of the posts by going to https://www.mydomain.com/e/message-board/post-slug

In Better Random Redirect, category is set to “All Categories”, Cache time is set to 300, and I’ve tried all the available different post types. The page is just not triggering a redirect. Is there any sort of debugging I can do to see if the plugin is even being called?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by cking0987.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by cking0987.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by cking0987.

I wanted to give an update here. I found some errors in php_errorlog that are related to this:

[25-Feb-2022 23:46:46 UTC] WordPress database error Table 'dbguye3dg3xeok.wp_posts' doesn't exist for query SELECT ID FROM wp_posts where post_type='external_posts' and post_status='publish' and post_password = '' made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), do_action('template_redirect'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, BetterRandomRedirect::do_redirect

The reason this is failing is because my table prefix is not set to “wp_”. I think if I could completely remove and reinstall Better Random Redirect, the plugin might be able to figure out the correct table prefix. Is there a way to do this? When I delete/reinstall, BRR keeps my configuration settings. How do I completely remove all of it? Alternatively, is there a way to force a re-index or something?

Good detective work. The plugin does indeed cache the query post type, so if your prefix changed that could be the issue.

You need to delete two options to have them regenerate with the correct post type prefix:

brr_query_posttype_pattern
brr_query_posttype_category_pattern

Hope that helps!

It works!!! Thank you so so so much. I know you aren’t actively supporting this plugin anymore, so I really appreciate your help.

For anyone else that might have the same issue, here are the steps I took:
1. Deactivate and remove the Better Random Redirect plugin
2. Run the following 2 commands in wp-cli:
wp option delete brr_query_posttype_pattern
wp option delete brr_query_posttype_category_pattern
3. Install Better Random Redirect. Note: your configuration options will remain unchanged, but the internal cache will have been reset, resulting in the redirect functioning properly.
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