donovangrundy

Thanks Gagan! This did the trick! Turns out I was being too clever with config and all.. After moving the wordpress install to blog and making just a few minor modifications, I was able to get the site working properly.

This could be a problem with your webserver configuration.
Does visiting https://example.com/blogs work for you? If it also redirects to https://blog.example.com/ then take a look at your webserver config. There is probably a config doing a rewrite / redirect.

In nginx, it would be similar to:
if ($http_host != “blog.example.com”) {
rewrite ^ https://blog.example.com$request_uri permanent;
}
or
location /blog {
rewrite ^ https://blog.example.com$request_uri permanent;
}