SylverTECH

Thank you @rankmath for your follow up.

Glad to see that this feature may be considered by you in a near future.

Just to add to its utility, I would like to add that this ‘?query strings’ redirection problem make a lot of sense since that when you delete a page (trash) or put it in ‘Draft’ mode because its content has been replaced or is better covered by another ‘Published’ page, you may want to redirect its traffic to a more comprehensive or a newer page, before to definitively get rid of it.

Moreover, in our case, it happened that Google (GSC) has indexed such pages, and when they were completely removed, Google stubbornly persisted to marked these pages as ‘ERROR’ pages and we weren’t able to instruct Google to redirect these particular pages to their replacement pages. At the end, we had to rely on the ‘Fallback Redirection’ feature to redirect these pages to the SykverTECH Homepage (and mostly NOT on the 404 page) to satisfy GSC, but this was not the ideal solution…

I hope this sheds some more light on this topic…

Respectfully

Hello Jory,

Glad that you rapidly identified the problem and are working on a solution.

WOW! Very efficient and dedicated to your product!

Hello @rankmath,

I should have been more specific in my first post regarding this issue. It’s my error!

I made a lot of tests since your last reply, and indeed, if you try to access a ‘non-existing-page’ (which I think is the case for your ‘404-page’, isn’t it ?), the specific Redirection is Followed correctly.

The real problem that I encountered however, is with pages which are addressed with a ‘?query-string’ (https://sylver-tech.com?page_id=xxx). These pages are not intercepted and redirected through the specific Redirections settings. They are processed through the main ‘Fallback Behavior’ Redirection settings and never followed. This applies to any ‘non published’ pages, being Draft, Pending, Trash, etc.

I look forward to see if you can reach the same conclusion and if so what you can do to solve this issue?

Regards

But If the 2 RankMath Homepages pointed to by the 2 Redirections settings (being local or live) have the same content, I suspect that you won’t see any differences and thereby, which redirection brought you there…

That’s why I suggested to you at the end of my last reply to point “your “404-page” on the “Redirections” of the WP left menu bar to any other page than the one which is set in your “Fallback Behavior” in your main settings TAB (General Settings)”.

In other words, you should point this “404-page” to any other existing page than your Homepage (being ‘local’ or ‘live’).
For example: “404-page” ==> https://rankmath.com/some-existing-subpage/.

I think such a test should give a much more convincing (or non confusing) result, result being clearly one way or the other.

Hoping this will help clarify the issue…

Thank you for your fast reply.

Looking at the test you’ve made and the video you referenced me to in your reply https://i.rankmath.com/XkjsrQ, I’m not sure that it’s prove my point.

The main reason why I say this is because the 2 redirections point at the same url, the https://rankmath.com/ Homepage. So you can NOT determine which one of the 2 redirections settings brought you at your Homepage first.

To make your test more relevant, you should point your “404-page” on the “Redirections” of the WP left menu bar to any other page than the one which is set in your “Fallback Behavior” in your main settings TAB (General Settings).

I think this should better prove my point.

Respectfully!

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Thank you very much Ariel for your prompt and very clear answer.

As a Multisites operator, one thing we would have wished is the ability to fully manage the Roles and Capabilities of all Users of all Subsites, directly in the Network Admin Panel.

But I understand from your detailed answer that this is not possible.

Thank you anyway for kind answer.

Regards!

OK, I installed the Plugin in my Multisite environment,
then tried to make a simple “Backup Now” and nothing happens…

Checked your Debug Log file and found the following messages:

[2021-02-22 22:17:50] [LOG] Plugin has been activated
[2021-02-22 22:18:01] [ERROR] POST error:
[2021-02-22 22:18:01] [ERROR] UnexpectedValueException: 
DirectoryIterator::__construct(/home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/uploads/*.*): failed to open dir: Too many levels of symbolic links in /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/scanner/files.php:116
Stack trace:
#0 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/scanner/files.php(116): DirectoryIterator->__construct()
#1 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/scanner/files.php(130): BMI\Plugin\Scanner\BMI_FileScanner::scanDirectorySizeOnly()
#2 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/scanner/files.php(362): BMI\Plugin\Scanner\BMI_FileScanner::scanDirectorySizeOnly()
#3 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/ajax.php(165): BMI\Plugin\Scanner\BMI_FileScanner::scanFiles()
#4 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/ajax.php(47): BMI\Plugin\BMI_Ajax->dirSize()
#5 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backup-backup/includes/initializer.php(108): BMI\Plugin\BMI_Ajax->__construct()
#6 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): BMI\Plugin\Backup_Migration_Plugin->ajax()
#7 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#8 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(484): WP_Hook->do_action()
#9 /home/sylvertech/public_html/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php(184): do_action()
#10 {main}

At first sight, there is maybe 5 or 6 directories under the “/uploads/sites/” each ones containing some repetitive (same names) directories, but none “symbolic links” under these directories.

What’s the problem???

Thanks for your fast reply.

I will install it and get back to you if any further questions.

Thanks Rank Math,

It worked perfectly!

Thanks for your reply.

I have 2 questions :

1. Do you mean just deleting the plugin through the WP/Plugins interface and/or through SSH or FTP access ?

2. Doing so, will I lose all my Settings (keywords, scores, titles, description, etc…) ?

Regards

OK! I’m done. I quit.
I’ll stop using this plugin for CDNing Images.
It doesn’t worth the trouble.

Sorry for the inconveniences Shift8 and thanks for your valuable efforts to solve this issue despite the limitations of this Forum…

Regarding the Plugins conflict hypothesis, let me remind you that following your August 11 suggestion, I already disabled all plugins (see my August 12 reply), cleared all caches with no result.

Hi Shift8,

Sorry for the delay!
I didn’t had time to work on this problem for a while.

Returned to the problem lately.
I have upgraded to WordPress 5.5.3 and installed your latest update.
Unfortunately, NO change to the problem!

I don’t know if there will ever be a solution to this problem?
I’m about to throw the towel…

Sorry

Hello Shift8,

Do you have something new regarding our problem ?

Please let me know if you are using multisite.

YES, this is a Sub-Directories Multisite with https://sylver-tech.com/ as main site, https://sylver-tech.com/fr/ (French version site) and lately https://sylver-tech.com/test-01/ for the purpose of troubleshooting this problem.

The user can email us directly at [email protected] and we can try to troubleshoot further.

I knew from the get go that it would not be ideal to troubleshoot this problem through this platform (WordPress Support Forum). That’s why I tried to contact you through your [email protected] address with no success and this with a company ([email protected]) email address as well as with a GMail account address. In both cases, your server responded with this message:
“Your email to group [email protected] was rejected due to spam classification”.
This seems to be a frequent problem with Google Apps Group email…

So, unless you can solve this email problem or give me another email address to reach you, I’m stuck!