Weird permalink problem – please help

  • Hello,
    please can someone help me with this odd problem.

    I was using the default permalink structure & changed it to /%postname%.

    All of the wordpress stuff is not in the root, it’s in it’s own folder.

    No problem for anything except 1 category that just doesn’t want to play ball at all. Everything works fine except this 1 category.

    When I click on this category (in the subnav bar), I get a white page (the kind you get when an index file is missing on a normal site) with :

    Index of /folder/category/the-page-name
    Parent directory
    wp-content/

    Whats going on? I can’t fathom this for the life of me. If it were all of the categories acting up then okay, but just 1?

    Could it be some setting in the database? I have actually dumped the database & replaced it with a backup from a week ago, but it does exactly the same thing.

    Anyone help please?

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  • Thread Starter daveshu1

    (@daveshu1)

    PS – I just noticed (if this makes any difference) that all of the working categories give me the address:

    url/folder/category/the-name

    this one has an extra slash on the end in this format:

    url/folder/category/the-name/

    ??

    Thread Starter daveshu1

    (@daveshu1)

    This is very, very weird.

    I just as an experiment tried changing the slug from:

    the-name to the-name-page & it started working.

    Change it back again to the-name and it stops working again.

    I guess that I am happy to live with this fix, but being a curious kind of a guy I’d love to understand why it’s doing this.

    Any ideas anyone?

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