pappilogic

Thanks, I’ll see if I can contact the author.

Hi James,

Long time no hear.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll try it as
soon as the problem w the theme, or I
load another theme.

Thanks,
Larry

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

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?

Found the .htaccess file (hidden file) and changed the permissions to 666. Went back to Settings/Permalinks where the Common Settings/Custom Structure was selected w /%postname%/ in the box. Still got a redirect to https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/southwest-baskets/ instead of https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/. Also tried Common Settings/Default, but got the same results.

Went to Tools/Redirection/Redirects and there were no redirects. Under Tools/Redirection/Modules there were 3 listings: WordPress – Disabled: You must enable permalinks before using this, Apache – Disabled: enter the location of an .htaccess file for this to be valid & 404 Errors.

Don’t know why WordPress permalinks are not enabled. The edit function didn’t provide a way to activate permalinks. Edited the Apache module to list /home/chrissie/public_html/sweetgrass-baskets.com/ as the .htaccess file location.

Today’s date was the only entry in the Redirections Log, and it showed a Redirect to: /southwest-basket.

The changes had no effect on being able to get to the home page.

Note: Going to Pages/Welcome (static page) and clicking on ‘View’ the screen comes up blank. The same thing happens when clicking on ‘Permalink: https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/ View Page’ under the header, but when ‘Preview Changes’ is clicked in the ‘Publish’ box, the Welcome page displays properly.

Went to /public_html/sweetgrass-baskets.com in cpanel and did a search for .htaccess. It came back w /public_html/sweetgrass-baskets.com/.htaccess, but can’t find that file anywhere in the file listing. Other than 4 additional directories, there are only 4 non-php files (license, readme & 2 sitemap files.

Found the wp-load.php file, but there was no .htaccess file in the same directory.

Have 4 other sub-domains and they don’t have any problems.

Using cPanel & file manager to access files on the server and the Upload utility to transfer files to the server.

Went into the cpanel then File Manager. Did a search for the 2 files you mentioned, but neither could be found.

Hi James,

Not that I’m aware of. This is an area in which I have virtually no knowledge.

Went back to Settings/Permalink Settings/Common Settings/Custom Structure & changed to /%postname%/.

Opened ‘Welcome’ page to edit. The ‘Welcome’ page looks fine when doing a Preview Changes in the Publish box, but when clicking on the View page under the Edit Page header, program still goes to https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/southwest-baskets/ w Error 404 – Not Found.

Problem not solved after doing the following:
– Deleted ‘Welcome’ page
– Went to Settings/Permalink Settings/Common Settings/Custom Structure & added /http:/www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/%postname%/
– Created, Published & Viewed new ‘Welcome’ page which looked fine
– Went to Settings/Reading Settings & selected new ‘Welcome’ page as the static page/Front page: and ‘Articles’ as the Posts page:
– Went back to Pages/Welcome page (permalink – https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/) & clicked on ‘View page’. https://www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/http:/www.sweetgrass-baskets.com/southwest-baskets/ came up. Clearing the cache didn’t help.

Can’t find the place where this can be cleaned up. Appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Larry

Thanks, Samuel. I’ll give it a try

Hi Arnee,

What are the better plugins?

Thanks,
Larry

Bit of a different problem w Google Sitemap. I was working fine until recently, but now when the sitemap link is clicked, the most recent post is displayed even though the URL says https://(my URL)/sitemap/. Tried deactivate/activate & delete/install, but nothing has worked so far.

Thanks James. I’ll give it a try