What Does “Found: 404 Agent: Not using Redirection” Mean?

  • Resolved Andrew Macaulay

    (@andrewlmacaulay)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    I am having some issues with permalinks and redirection on one of my WordPress sites. This is a “sub-site” hosted in the same domain. The other (root) site is working fine but recently the sub-site stopped working. I have found that it can’t work with permalinks which don’t include index.php and redirection also reports “Found: 404 / Agent: Not using Redirection” when checking the additional redirections that had been previously working.

    Is there anything additional information that this message provides about the issue affecting the website, or is this just reflecting redirection not working at any level?

    Has anyone seen situations where a sub-site WordPress (in my case …./modules/….) breaks while the “root” WordPress site works fine?

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    The message is the status of a request for the URL.

    It is possible you need to install the plugin on the subsite in order for it to handle redirects.

    Thread Starter Andrew Macaulay

    (@andrewlmacaulay)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks. Deleted and reinstalled the plugin (it was already on the sub-site) and when going through setup complains that “working but some issues” on REST API, specifically:

    URL: /modules/index.php/wp-json/
GET POST rest_no_route: No route was found matching the URL and request method.
No route was found matching the URL and request method. (rest_no_route)
Your REST API is returning a 404 page. This is almost certainly an external plugin or server configuration issue.

    whilset the other two tests work OK.

    After this, the newly created redirects seem to work, but older ones from /modules/…. to /modules/index.php/…. are still coming back with an error.

    Still confused about what is happening with this – is the REST API error message anything that points to a specific issue?

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    I can’t say whether the message points to a specific issue. This is almost certainly something caused by your setup, and it’s hard for me to debug that.

    What is the difference between the new and old ones?

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