Welcome URL not found

  • Resolved pappilogic

    (@pappilogic)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Created a ‘Welcome’ page for https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/ (permalink shows https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/). Went to Dashboard/Settings/Reading and made ‘Welcome’ the static ‘Front Page:’ w ‘Articles’ as the ‘Posts Page:’ However, when I try to view the ‘Welcome’ page, instead of going to https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/, the site comes back w https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/southwest-baskets/ w a ‘Error 404 – Not Found’ msg.

    Note: Had previously created a southwest-baskets page in error; should have been an article. Subsequently, went back and deleted southwest-baskets, and created a southwest-baskets page.

    Under Settings/General, https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/ is shown both in the WordPress address and the Site address. Permalink settings set to default. Tried the other permalink options and they displayed display the southwest-baskets article.
    Went through all the other WP settings, but could find no redirects. Tried clearing recent history, but that had no effect.
    Everything was working fine up until recently, but don’t know what happened to cause this problem. Any ideas as to what to do next?

    Thanks,
    Larry

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  • Thread Starter pappilogic

    (@pappilogic)

    Reading through the Permalink information, decided to re-create the .htaccess file following the instructions provided by WP.org. Unfortunately, there were several problem w the instructions:
    # Delete all contents from your .htaccess file and click the Update File button. The file can’t be saved if there is no content.
    # In the Control Panel, go to Options > Permalinks. HostGator has no Options > Permalinks category.

    The only thing in the .htaccess file is:
    # BEGIN WordPress

    # END WordPress

    Is there an alternate way of generating a new set of htaccess rules?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Try deactivating the Redirection plugin. It causes problems with WP 3.

    Thread Starter pappilogic

    (@pappilogic)

    Thanks, James. Didn’t know there was a redirect plugin. Deactivated it, and all is well.
    Thanks again,
    Larry

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

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