Page not found via URL

  • I have setup a linux server and installed WordPress on it. Everything is working fine when I go to the site by using the IP address of the server. But when I use the URL linked to the ip address I initially get a “page not found” error.

    So the URL changes from https://example.com to https://example.com/gOgVb/ and it returns a page not found. When I remove the gOgVb/ in this example it does load normally and keeps working until I close the browser and try again.

    When I use the same browser and try a second time, it does load the page.

    What happens is that the first time I try to load the page, WordPress adds 5 random characters behind the URL. When I remove those characters and try again, it does not add those characters and then it works.

    What is the reason that WordPress adds those caracters the first time and how can I get this to work?

    Thank you!

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  • Hi @destination22,
    when I go to example.com I get a “Nothing Found” page. I can see a lot of redirecting going on to get to that page.

    1. example.com/ redirects to example.com/xxxxx
    2. example.com/xxxxx redirects back to example.com/
    3. a page which contains an iframe containing the final page, which comes from another server, is loaded

    The first server seems to be a Windows one (IIS) while the one containing the page is Apache.

    Check with your host (GoDaddy I believe) and domain registrar why there are these redirects. Also take a look at your htaccess file to see if there are redirects outside your domain going on. This article may be of help.

    Thread Starter destination22

    (@destination22)

    Hi @alichani, thanks a lot for the feedback. Obviously the Apache server is mine and the Windows one has to be from GoDaddy.

    I thought it was wordpress that added the random characters, never thought GoDaddy did more than redirect traffic to my ip. I’ll contact them.

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