Non-Root Home with /blog as the Blog, getting access denied

  • Resolved redhorsemountain

    (@redhorsemountain)


    15 years ago

    Need some help. I have a static home page on our site, wordpress is in the root folder. I am trying to build the blog page as mysite/blog in the permalink structure. I have created a blog template in the theme folder and pointed the blog in the reading settings to the /blog page. The general settings show the blog url at mysite/blog

    I’m getting an access denied and not sure why? When I go back to the page in edit, the address for the page shows up as /mysite/blog which should give access to the page. the page is listed as published and available to the public. Help!

    site: https://www.redhorsemountain.com
    blog: https://www.redhorsemountain.com/blog

    I have also noticed that the page exists with the shortlink. Its popping up at https://www.redhorsemountain.com/?page_id=423

    thanks for any responses!

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  • Do you have a page made that is titled “blog” and your “reading” setting set so that “blog” is the “posts page”? If so, I’ve also found it does that if you don’t have any posts made yet.

    There are a couple other causes too – check out https://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html

    Thread Starter redhorsemountain

    (@redhorsemountain)

    Posting now to check…Had one, but maybe its old….

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    The general settings show the blog url at mysite/blog

    you need both url’s set to your root site for it to work
    the way you have it now is looking for a folder/blog which doesn’t exist – hence the 403
    /blog is actually just a page from your root
    when you make this change you will then be able to access blog at
    https://www.redhorsemountain.com/blog

    Thread Starter redhorsemountain

    (@redhorsemountain)

    that makes sense. Changing the blog url in the general setting to https://www.example.com, gives me the correct address in the links, but for some reason gives the 403 error.

    This might be a key item I just noticed. When I made a new post, the permalink address shows this htt://mysite/https://mysite/blog

    Not sure why this would happen either.

    Thread Starter redhorsemountain

    (@redhorsemountain)

    this address for the new post is here:
    https://www.redhorsemountain.com/http:/www.RedHorseMountain.com/wine-tasting-week-special

    why it works, I have no idea.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    probably just confused the hec out of the .htacces
    try re saving your permalinks
    admin – settings – permalinks

    Thread Starter redhorsemountain

    (@redhorsemountain)

    Whats the chance this is causing the problem, my permalinks.

    custom structure is “/http:/www.RedHorseMountain.com/%postname%”

    Should it just be “%postname%”??

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Whats the chance this is causing the problem, my permalinks.
    custom structure is “/http:/www.RedHorseMountain.com/%postname%”

    Oh – about 99.9% at a rough guess. ??

    Should it just be “%postname%”??

    /%postname%/ – although I’d recommend that you read Using_Permalinks first.

    Thread Starter redhorsemountain

    (@redhorsemountain)

    Just to complete the post. The final issue was a remnant directory called /blog in the directory tree. Up and working. Thanks for all your help!

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