gurubobnz

Hi guys – my issue was quite different but seemed similar. Here were the symptoms:

1. Moved WP site from host A to host B (including DB etc)
2. Configured new username and password for mysql in wp-config.php.
3. Went to home page, old posts showed, no new ones???
4. Logged into back end, everything looked fine.
5. Changed a post that was showing on the front page, no visible change.
6. WTF / GOOGLE / HAIR PULLING / etc etc
7. Discovered that there was an index.html file in my WP root that contained a static version of my site.

I don’t know how this index.html file got created, but the difference was that the DirectoryIndex order on host B listed index.html BEFORE index.php so it wasn’t an issue on my old host.

Hope this keeps the amount of global hair pulling to a minimum.

Cheers,

– Bob –
https://www.guru.net.nz/

Fair cop Gangleri, upgraded to 2.8.4 now need to clean up. Looks like something managed to get into the custom permalink option. Removing it appears to fix the problem.

Same deal with my wife’s blog @ https://mummy.guru.net.nz/
Similar story – regular posting but no upgrading or anything recently.
Investigating now, found this post after Googling for the string appended onto the permalink URL.