“Bad Request”

  • I was going to update one of our webpages which has agenda and minutes. This has always been viewable up until about 1 week ago. I can edit the back end of the page but when trying to view it, the message “Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand” comes up for each fiscal year page. The only thing different that I can notice is that the permalink has changed and I cannot edit the part that changed on its own. Specifically, this was added into the link /%year_created%/ whereas it used to be direct. Even if I enter the new permalink into the URL bar, I get the same error message on all devices, and from different on and off-site locations.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by t-p. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress from Everything else WordPress

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    I cannot find any documentation that suggests that %year_created% is a permalink token. I suggest you go to settings=>permalinks and remove that.

    Thread Starter jkristy

    (@jkristy)

    This worked! Thank you so much. I wouldn’t have known to do that. Thanks!

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    You can’t just make up permalink tokens ??

    Thread Starter jkristy

    (@jkristy)

    I wouldn’t even know how to try!! Do you think there is a security risk since this happened without me doing it?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    somebody did it. Who else has admin access to your site?

    Thread Starter jkristy

    (@jkristy)

    2 other staff who specifically only edit 1 section of our site related to restaurant inspections. Neither have created posts, pages, etc and neither know how to edit to even customize the end of the link let alone go into the menu you showed me. The 3rd, our website developer and host, has not logged in since 2018 when we created the site.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    It would be a very strange hack, if indeed it were a hack. But to be safe, install the WordFence plugin and scan your site.

    Thread Starter jkristy

    (@jkristy)

    Thanks again!

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