URL redirecting (has broke my wordpress)

  • Since my webhost is located in the US, and most of my viewers are from EU, I wanted to set up CloudFlare to shorten the response time from the server.
    In order for CloudFlare to work, I need to redirect mydomain.com to https://www.mydomain.com.
    To do so, I’ve used the .htaccess file.
    It only caused me trouble, so I removed the line from .htaccess because it would give me a 404 when trying to access https://www.mydomain.com/forums

    However, now that I removed the line and my wordpress settings are back on how they used to be before I started with the redirect, I am still getting 404s on both mydomain.com/forums and https://www.mydomain.com/forums, while the main page is now mydomain.com again.

    EDIT:
    In fact, any page other than the homepage (mydomain.com) will give me a 404.

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  • Hi there!

    Just an idea but did you try the permalinks?

    Sometimes just going to Settings -> Permalinks & clicking ‘Save Changes’ seems to refresh everything.

    I’ve had a 404 issue like that when cloning a site or changing the site url and refreshing the permalinks always seems to save the day! ??

    Anyways, just an idea but I hope it helps!

    Cheers,

    Luke the Daft Duke

    Thread Starter FliP0x

    (@flip0x)

    I set both the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to https://www.mydomain.com and all pages work again and the site is now finally how I needed it to be: automatically redirects to www

    However, I have another problem now. Login doesn’t work anymore. When clicking on Login, it just opens a small, white frame where the login is supposed to be loaded. But it won’t load.
    It is strange that it will load when accessing login from mydomain.com/about-us and mydomain.com/contact-us works, but it doesn’t for any other page like /forums or the home page.

    EDIT:
    And even though I am logged in on the home page and other pages, it doesn’t log me in for /forums.

    This just happened to me a moment ago too. However, I can no longer access my Dashboard at all now. I can’t even log into the WP installed on my site pretty much like FliP0x’s issue.

    Thread Starter FliP0x

    (@flip0x)

    I can login to my dashboard and hopepage. Everything except the forum for some reason. Even though I am logged in on my homepage, I am logged out on my forum. If I go to any other page other than /forums, I am logged in again.

    EDIT:
    I reverted my settings back to mydomain.com and it works again. So I suppose it has something to do with the forum directory, but I don’t know what it is.

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