Title: Cannot create Group Name
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Cannot create Group Name

 *  [Chandra M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhuja/)
 * (@nhuja)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/)
 * I cannot seem to create Group Name. It keeps saying:
 * Please specify a group name
 * I have reinstalled, reactivated, changed Permalinks, resaved them etc but I cannot
   create a Group Name, let alone assign redirects.
 * Any insights of what might be wrong? Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)

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 *  [steveloftis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveloftis/)
 * (@steveloftis)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623145)
 * I’m experiencing the same error.
 * The site in question is running Redirection version 2.4.2 on WordPress 4.3.1
 * The plugin works fine on a site we’ve built running on WordPress 2.5.1
 * Other redirection plugins work, but I like Redirection because it shows the number
   of hits received by the WP redirects you set up.
 * Anybody have any ideas?
 *  [The Crazy Travel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sh4dowsoul/)
 * (@sh4dowsoul)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623172)
 * Same problem here.
 * I have a multisite. I cannot create groups on my main domain but I can in my 
   subdomains.
 *  [SmileWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anotheropus/)
 * (@anotheropus)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623206)
 * Same issue.
 * I have a multisite.
 * The plugin is activated per site (not network wide).
 *  [d.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pxlar8/)
 * (@pxlar8)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623353)
 * Same issue.
 * Multisite. Working for me on the sites that are subfolders of the root domain
   but not on sites that are using domain mapping.
 * The default groups also aren’t being created, which means I can’t add any redirects
   since I can’t add them to a group.
 * Redirection plugin activated on per-site basis.
 *  [Pranjal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pranjalg/)
 * (@pranjalg)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623361)
 * Hello everyone,
 * Try to install the plugin copy from Github,
 * [https://github.com/johngodley/redirection](https://github.com/johngodley/redirection)
 * It fixed the above issues for me,
 * Hope that helps 🙂
 *  [Reagan Lynch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdlynch/)
 * (@rdlynch)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623362)
 * I’m having this same issue. Not using multi-site these are single installations.
   If the gethub version fixes this problem then the author needs to update the 
   version here in the WP repo.
 *  [drewcarver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewcarver/)
 * (@drewcarver)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623363)
 * Same issue. Can’t add a redirect because there’s no group specified. Try to add
   a group, and it tells me to enter a name even though I did.
 *  [chrisk200](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisk200/)
 * (@chrisk200)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623396)
 * Same issue.
    No way to add a group, always getting “Please specify a group name”.
   Thus I cannot create any redirection? It works on my localhost test site but 
   not on my online site (exact same configuration and plugins). Tried pretty much
   everything found here and in other posts related to the same problem. No resolution
   from the author? It seems to be a real recurring issue for months if not years.
 *  [chrisk200](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisk200/)
 * (@chrisk200)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-group-name/#post-6623397)
 * I found what it was.
    The reason was that the user operating the SQL databases
   had only read-write privileges. Thus the 4 Redirection tables (wp_redirection_404.
   sql, wp_redirection_groups.sql, wp_redirection_items.sql, wp_redirection_logs.
   sql) could not be created. Setting it as administrator resolved the issue.
 * Maybe a better error handling with a more explicit error message (“Please specify
   a group name” doe snot tell anything) would have helped.

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