Blog posts redirecting to Home Page

Looking into the DB I can see that the redirects column in wp-options is pretty large and I would imagine this is where the problem stems from, but I’m not comfortable manually editing this table.

Any thoughts, experiences or suggestions? My next step is to reinstall on a fresh DB, then try and recover the tables containing posts and other non-config data, which will obviously be a PITA.

Manually editing those tables would be less of a PITA. ??

Okay, best guess I can figure is whatever plugin you had disabled mucked things up big time.

BP requires pretty permalinks though, so if you;re still on default ugly ones, that’s why your BP links don’t work.

When I change permalink settings in admin back to the default (i.e. ugly) format, then the problem is resolved and clicking on an index blog entry takes me through to the single.php page.

What’s your .htaccess look like?

Did you do anything like remove the blog slug from your site?

Thanks for getting back to me Andrea, yeah I’m guessing it was a plugin but I’m not sure which one..

Permalinks are set within WP-admin, but each post just redirects back to index.php. Links throughout the rest of the site are fine. If I switch off permalinks and use the default/ugly format then the links work fine – but I realise that’s not a workable solution for BP which requires permalinks to be working.

Unless anyone has any advice about manually editing the DB, then I’ll probably have to reinstall WP/BP and ‘hope’ it doesn’t happen again. Darn, but I hate bypassing a problem without fixing it though..

What’s your .htaccess look like?

Did you do anything like remove the blog slug from your site?

.htaccess file is

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

And No, I haven’t removed the blog slug from the site. The permalink format of my posts are..

https://sitename.com/blog/2011/05/sample-post/

Puzzling eh?

Btw, user blogs (i.e. those with a URI format such as https://sitename.com/films/2011/04/26/this-is-a-post/ are just peachy and redirect fine, so it’s just posts with a /blog slug.

.htaccess looks fine (that’s the whole thing? No other redirects? No plugins doing redirects? Any caching plugins? No actual folder named /blog/ sitting out there?)

Have you tried turning off all plugins?

The odd(er) thing it this:
[Thu May 05 22:53:01 2011] [alert] [client 184.106.221.215] /home/public_html/site.com/public/htdocs/.htaccess: RewriteRule: bad argument line '^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)'

I’ve never seen that error before!

Side note:

[Fri May 06 09:01:57 2011] [error] [client 86.137.115.250] File does not exist: /home/public_html/site.com/public/htdocs/wp-content/themes/images, referer: https://site.com/wp-content/themes/themename/style.css

Looks like your style.css has a typo. It’s looking one folder up for images.

.htaccess looks fine (that’s the whole thing? No other redirects? No plugins doing redirects? Any caching plugins? No actual folder named /blog/ sitting out there?)

Have you tried turning off all plugins?

The odd(er) thing it this:
[Thu May 05 22:53:01 2011] [alert] [client 184.106.221.215] /home/public_html/site.com/public/htdocs/.htaccess: RewriteRule: bad argument line ‘^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)’

I’ve never seen that error before!

I’ve got one other redirect, which is positioned ‘above’ the wordpress entries, but all that does is keep the site private whilst development is completed.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  Options +FollowSymLinks
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^99\.999\.999\.999

	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/mypage\.html$  

	RewriteRule .* https://www.sitename.com [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

I have no caching plugins installed yet, no folder named /blog and all the plugins are switched off (apart from buddypress).

Next step is probably to look through each of the plugins and see if any redirects are being set..

I’m also taking a look at Jeff Sebring’s instructions on removing the blog slug, but thus far whenever I remove blog from the permalink, it returns again once the permalinks settings are saved in site admin.

I don’t think your rewrite would cause this, but you can always turn it off for a quick test.

I’m also taking a look at Jeff Sebring’s instructions on removing the blog slug, but thus far whenever I remove blog from the permalink, it returns again once the permalinks settings are saved in site admin.

Yeah, that’s basically what happens as of 3.1 :/ I tell people to leave /blog alone for now.

I would just turn off all plugins except BuddyPress, personally, see if it works.

Thanks, yes I’ve tried all of those things.

Oh well, I’ll take one last look around the plugins (to see which one might have caused the problem) and then it looks like I’ll need to reinstall WP/BP again and then try and knit the DB back together again..

Just to keep everyone in the loop. I’ve been trying out a few release candidate plugins and I suspect that one of these is the cause of my problems.

I am looking into $wp_rewrite->flush_rules() to see if by flushing out the redirect rules, then re-saving permalinks can cure the problem.

In theory this is already built into the wordpress permalink.php page – therefore whenever a new permalink structure is saved, it flushes and then saves this new structure. That’s not working for me at the moment, so I will recreate the function and run it manually.

Fingers (and toes) crossed…

Had the same problem after upgrading WP core to 3.1.2

After reading this post I went into setttings->permanlinks and just clicked the save button and the problem seems to have been resolved.

dlawton thank you for this very easy solution. I was facing the same issue and it is now working.

I had done a put new settings for my posts, including a lot for W3 cache and Yoast SEO, and all of the sudden no posts or page would open anymore. I found this, and dlawton’s simple solution did it. So happy! Thank you!

Got the same issue viz: /blog displays home page
Changing to ugly permalinks doesnt work for me ??
phomedia or thesis 1.8 theme shows the issue
Twenty Ten theme works OK
Turned off all plugins

Any help appreciated as Im pulling my hair out ??

Cheers
Pete