Recovering Page URL when Permanently deleted

  • Resolved sunradio4

    (@sunradio4)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    Ok. So I am renaming page titles and transferring content. And learning as I go.
    I created the above page, and left it empty of content, and used the page title deepdivingmen. I then found a blog post I wanted to be the content for that page. I then deleted permanently the original page and retitled the new page with the same name and URL https://www.duncanalldridge.com/deepdivingmen/
    but it is only finding a webhost holding page.
    My question is: can I still use this title – deepdivingmen – as a page on my site?
    I’ve tried finding the original page via google cache, but it’s been created too recently to be held there.
    Do I need to use a different page title now or is there a way to use this one – it’s quite important that I do, if I can.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I took a look at your page. I am very familiar with Bluehost and if I had to guess, you registered the domain deepdivingmen.com and did not set it up correctly within Bluehost. What you should have done is added deepdivingmen.com to your hosting account and then installed WordPress to that domain, which in turn would install it to a folder called deepdivingmen.

    I think the confusion comes in when Bluehost creates a folder (in this case deepdivingmen) within the primary domains home folder. The WordPress installation for deepdivingmen should and will be considered a completely isolated installation. I would suggest calling Bluehost support to help you setup the domain correctly.

    -OR-

    Maybe you did add deepdivingmen.com to your account but it seems it is forwarding to duncanalldridge.com which could create this situation. One thing you could do is delete index.html from deepdivingmen.com and that MIGHT fix this.

    Thread Starter sunradio4

    (@sunradio4)

    Hey Keith,
    Thanks.
    Yes, you’ve got something of it. Great!
    I recently added a main domain for the whole site. So from deepdivingmen.com to duncanalldridge.com. I asked Bluehost to point the old site URL to the new one. So what I understand by this is that two URLs now point to one website as deepdivingmen.com is still active.
    Does this clear anything up for you in regards to what exactly I should ask Bluehost?

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by sunradio4.

    I would give them a quick call and explain that you have a post with the same title as your old domain, and ask if that would create this issue. I think the problem might be that there is a file named index.html within the deepdivingmen folder on your server and instead of serving the WordPress post it is serving the html file. Newly created add-on domains have a default html created within them and that probably is the case here when they made the changes you requested.

    Thread Starter sunradio4

    (@sunradio4)

    Great. And just for my amateur web designer brain – I have already deleted one page with this name, as I explained in the first post here – but that page displayed ok – so there’s no logic for me right why the same URL now shows the bluehost holding page..! But I think I’m short on understanding this. Will call Bluehost anyway..

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by sunradio4.
    Thread Starter sunradio4

    (@sunradio4)

    Once we renamed the deepdivingmen folder at Bluehost – the files appeared ??

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