Redirection no longer works as it used to

Can you give an example of a URL that is not working as you expect?

There are still only two fields to enter, unless you click the advanced button to show the rest of the options.

I hope I’m not violating etiquette by responding here, but I’m having the same problem.

If I go into the Redirects tab, first, the Check Redirect does nothing. If I click on the old URL, it goes to the new one.

But that old URL is also appearing in the 404s tab. So I typed it in manually, and sure enough, was sent *not* to the site’s custom 404 page, but a blank 404 page that just says the page doesn’t exist.

Old URL manually typed in: https://www.swimuniversity.com/difference-free-total-chlorine/

New URL it should redirect to: https://www.swimuniversity.com/total-free-chlorine-difference/

Just switched to this plugin from Yoast Premium a few days ago, and now have more than 10,000 404s on the site.

What is going on and can you possibly fix it? This plugin used to work perfectly.

Thank you!

What version of the plugin are you using?

What is the redirect you created for that URL?

Plugin version 4.4

The redirects are being created automatically.

The redirect is as follows:

Old: /difference-free-total-chlorine

New: /total-free-chlorine-difference/

I do see the old URL lacks the trailing slash. However, if I type it in *with* the trailing slash, the way it actually was, I get the site’s custom 404 page.

In the 404s tab, the old URL is appearing both ways, with and without the trailing slash. Both of those go to the blank 404 page.

Please upgrade to the latest version.

https://www.swimuniversity.com/difference-free-total-chlorine is redirecting fine:

https://redirect.li/http/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.swimuniversity.com%2Fdifference-free-total-chlorine

I will. But why is it appearing in the 404s tab, then? Doesn’t that mean someone tried to navigate there, and got a 404 instead of the new page?

And why, when I click on both versions in the 404s tab, do they both go to a blank 404 page rather than the new URL?

And why does it not work when I type the URL in manually?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Michelle Lowery.

Disregard this one. ??

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Michelle Lowery.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Michelle Lowery.

Without seeing the 404s I couldn’t say.

Your browser is likely caching the request, but as you can see from the link above, it is being redirected. If you enable the ‘ignore trailing slash’ option then it will work for both versions.

Ah! I hadn’t seen that option. Thanks so much for your help!

Ticked that option and cleared the cache, and that seems to have helped. Thanks again!