Page links not loading when logged out of WP admin

What’s in your .htaccess file?

I have two .htaccess files.

This one is in my public_html folder:

# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

And one in my wp-content folder

# Protect the log files
<Files  ~ "\.log$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Protect the log files
<Files  ~ "\.log$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Protect the log files
<Files  ~ "\.log$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Protect the log files
<Files  ~ "\.log$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Protect the log files
<Files  ~ "\.log$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

Does your host do any caching? I can see that I request your about page, but the server returns the home page again. This might be wortha query to your host.

Yes, I have reached out to GoDaddy multiple times about this and they are confident its an issue with my code. But I’m not sure thats the case. They did have a firewall with a cache and I went ahead and disabled it – and the issue was still there.

This issue was still there after changing to the twentytwentyone theme and deactivating all my plugins.

I asked about this in the back room and got this comment:

When I tried the ‘about’ page link it still showed the main page with this as an error

/about-buelow-vetter/#:2 Active resource loading counts reached a per-frame limit while the tab was in background. Network requests will be delayed until a previous loading finishes, or the tab is brought to the foreground. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5527160148197376 for more details

After a few moments, it seemed like it loaded that page itself. I tried it again and had to navigate to it. Looks like a proxy box issue at GoDaddy to me. Or possibly an Apache issue. I could be wrong!

Steven,

Thank you for your response. I’ll reach out to GoDaddy again and bring up this exact issue.

They stay stuck at a page – until you bust the cache

e.g.

https://xxxxxxx/employment-law-blog/?cache-bust=12772773

Adding a query arg like cache-break=wyueyueyu

Will cause a new page to be rendered

This is a caching issue, and if you don’t have a caching plugin then it is GoDaddy caching

check to see if you have any Godaddy specials in wp-content/mu-plugins

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Alan Fuller.

GoDaddy is refusing to believe has anything to do with their proxy or cacheing system. This was their note: “I can see you have cpanel shared hosting plan, In which there no flush caches option like managed wordpress.Hence there’s no caches on the server, Its not managed wordpress hosting. What you are asking for is not technically possible”

And then they directed me back here – to WordPress forums. I also do not have a “mu-plugins” folder. Even with all plugins deactivated, and the twentytwenty one theme, i still had these issues.

You could try migrating to another host and see if the problem persists. To prove or otherwise if it a GoDaddy issue.

Yeah, I’d try a server elsewhere at this point.