Redirected website – changing permalinks

  • ellennn

    (@ellennn)


    12 years, 1 month ago

    I’m working on a client’s website. http://www.robertkiley.ca
    I’ve installed a theme (Campaign). Everything is swell, except for the permalinks.
    I’ve changed them to the post name, but my client’s website is a redirected website from (I’m assuming) his old designer (joshlyon.ca), so the permalinks do work… but not on my client’s site…

    For example:
    http://www.joshlyon.ca/contact brings me to Robert’s contact page (with the joshlyon url)
    but
    http://www.robertkiley.ca/contact just directs to http://www.joshlyon.ca/contact

    It’s not the most ideal to have Robert’s url changing, especially because he is a politician, and that’s just a weird thing to happen.

    But is there any way to go around this? He’s super adamant about having permalinks.

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  • Viktor Nagornyy

    (@viktorix)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    http://www.robertkiley.ca/contact has a 301 redirect setup, that’s why it’s redirecting to the other website. I checked http status for that URL and it says 301. So somewhere there is a 301 redirect.

    Thread Starter ellennn

    (@ellennn)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    I know that’s it’s redirecting; that’s how the whole website works. WordPress was installed to joshlyon.ca, and everything was redirected to robertkiley (his hosting probably wasn’t able to install wordpress).

    The question is how to make permalinks on robertkiley.ca, instead of, or in addition to joshlyon.ca

    Viktor Nagornyy

    (@viktorix)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    How is the redirect setup from robertkiley.ca to joshlyon.ca?

    Thread Starter ellennn

    (@ellennn)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    I’m not sure. My client has no web experience, and isn’t in contact with Josh anymore. All I was given was his WordPress login info

    Viktor Nagornyy

    (@viktorix)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    This might be a good opportunity to maybe move off of josh’s account to your client’s own hosting? If he’s not in contact with Josh, eventually website will break or go down and you won’t be able to fix it.

    It’s possible that they have domain forwarding setup, so all traffic is forwarded from one domain to another with path forwarding enabled. So it keeps /contact and other URLs and simply redirects domain. That’s my guess.

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