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Although not specific to the thread at hand, it does highlight some ongoing changes at Yahoo that may be impacting WordPress users on Yahoo.

For those with Yahoo Small Business webhosting, as you may or may not be aware Yahoo is spinning off their webhosting business in the 4th quarter of this year. The new company will be “Luminate”. I sent an email at the end of August because of other issues that I had with Yahoo policies and support. The answer is submitted below. My takeaway is that support for WordPress (or lack there of) will not change right away, if ever. They really failed to adequately answer my questions or concerns.
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[email protected]
Today at 12:56 PM

To: MVGSWebmaster

Thank you for contacting the Yahoo Small Business team. We are excited to become Luminate, from Aabaco Small Business, and are happy to answer your questions regarding this topic.

Our products and services will either remain the same or see improvements. While we cannot provide a preview at this time, we will be communicating any future changes or improvements as they occur.

We have noted your request regarding WordPress. Please feel free to send any other improvement requests and we will forward them to our Product team.

We look forward to a bright future together.

-The Yahoo Small Business Team

On Monday, August 31, 2015 9:59 AM, MVGSWebmaster wrote:

Yahoo webhosting currently denies/hides access to the WordPress “htaccess” location/file. Will Luminate change or keep this policy after the spinoff?

What enhanced tools/administration capability can one expect? Will they be at least equal to or better than CPanel capabilities of webhosts like “Bluehost”?

Is there a “preview” available?

Problem was a Yahoo specific plugin “Customizable Permalinks” needed to be activated. Yahoo will spinning off their Web hosting business in the next few months, hopefully the new company will do away with “htaccess” restrictions.

Diappointed in the lack of community response to this problem.

Changed the theme from twentytweleve to twentyeleven and redirects continue.

Reviewed Yahoo help section and the suggestion was made to create a “php” redirect file as follows:

<?php
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
define(‘WP_IN_ROOTDIR’, true);
require(‘.//wp/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

Still did not correct redirect problem. I suspect the issue is in the theme template but don’t know where to look.