I have this problem as well; I’ve tried everything above and am stumped…
I created a static page with the following url:
https://cheekylit.com/resources/web-2-0-tools/blog-wiki-forum-tools/
After I created the page, when I enter my site url it ‘redirects’ to the url above instead. My site url is…
https://cheekylit.com
In my General Settings, the wordpress url and site url is correctly indicated for both as…
https://cheekylit.com
In my Settings>Reading, it is correctly indicated to show my latest posts in summary form.
If I trash the new page, I get a 404 message ‘not found’ for my homepage.
I don’t know what else to do, so if anyone knows what’s happening here, advice/instructions would be GREATLY appreciated!!!