Home Page Not Found

  • I’ve been reading forums for a week trying to resolve this and have tried many things & it isn’t resolving. Problem: I have a static front page that is working fine and a “Home” page tab that is blank. I want my “Home” page tab on the menu to link back to the original main page (the page that pulls up when you enter my URL) or to be one-and-the-same. As it is, when you log in, you see the website as I want it to appear, then after clicking around the site, if you want to return the front “Home” page you click “Home” and it says “Page Not Found”. I realize it is because I have written nothing on this page, and don’t intend to because I want “Home” to simply be my site’s URL or main front page (Is that front page lost to my viewer forever once they start looking around the site?) I’ve read forums stating you need to change code to fix this, or remove “redirect” plugins which I do not have, or that it’s because of erasing the original “Hello World” post, or to make sure your static front page is set to “Home” which it is, only I want home to simply link it up to my current front page. I’m using evolve theme and would greatly appreciate any help you could offer!

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  • I had a similar issue when copying my website to a new URL. Here are the fixes I tried.

    If you CAN get into your dashboard.
    1. Go to permalinks and click on the radio button for default or custom if you want it to be the specific homepage you have.(I would recommend trying default first.

    OR at permalinks if you see that the links are DIFFERENT than the URL that you have for your website you need to go into your wp-config.php which is usually in the folder for your website so for me I use WinSCP because my webserver is hosted on a VirtualMachine/Linux and the directory is something like /var/www/html/(website name). Once there add

    define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://example.com’);

    to any place that looks logical and change the https://example.com to your HOMEPAGE url and make both the site url and the home url the same.
    This should either 1. help you get to your dashboard or 2. set the permalinks properly to what you want then in the dashboard so that it can fix all the links on your website.

    Sorry if that was a lot on information, please ask me a question if something I said didn’t make sense.

    Also here is the link for maybe a helpful page
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

    Hope that helps! =)

    Thread Starter daysi5

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    Thread Starter daysi5

    (@daysi5)

    Thanks so much for replying to my question so quickly! I went into permalinks and they match my url: https://www.applegatecares.com They were set to default and still weren’t working, so I tried to add a custom https://www.applegatecares.com/home and it didn’t work. Since the url was correct, I haven’t gone into wp-config.php or made any changes there. Any suggestions?

    Thread Starter daysi5

    (@daysi5)

    I had previously reviewed the link you gave me and checked my Home and Site URL settings. I actually made them both the same when I started. I know they’re supposed to be different, but I didn’t know what to put for the Site URL, so I just kept it identical to the first Home setting. Is this why I’m having problems? And if so, I’m still unsure how to fix it.

    You’re very welcome.
    What were the two different site links?

    Also it looks like the page that your home button goes to is different than the site homepage. This could be an issue in different areas it would be hard to tell.

    Under pages in the dashboard, do you have another page labeled home? If so click to preview it and see if it is the one with the error. Also what is in the contents of the homepage?

    Thread Starter daysi5

    (@daysi5)

    Home setting: https://www.applegatecares.com
    Site URL: https://www.applegatecares.com

    I did erase the “Hello World” post and created other new posts, but link all my posts to the blog, not on the front page which is static. I went and made a new post labeled “home” and it’s in my blog. I did create that page on the menu titled “Home” because I want it in the menu and posts don’t appear in the menu. I’m obviously missing something big….

    Thread Starter daysi5

    (@daysi5)

    So, yes the page that my home button goes to is different than the site page. This is my problem and what I hope to fix. I want to make them one and the same. Under pages in the dashboard I have a page labeled Home which I built specifically to have a way to link back to my site page. The contents of that page are empty because I want it to be my site or URL page.

    Thread Starter daysi5

    (@daysi5)

    It looks like I figured it out. I’m not sure why it worked this time when it didn’t before, but I filled in the Home area on the front page with information, erased the Home tab on the menu, and added it again. Now it is linking up. Thanks for your help.

    I’m really glad you were able to figure it out. Great job tinkering with it! Sorry I wasn’t much of a help on the solution.

    Have an awesome day!

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