prof611

Thank you, t-p, for your quick and lucid reply. The procedure is perfectly logical, and it works. Don’t know why it’s not somewhere on WordPress. I’m sure other people must need to do this also.

Yes it does. It’s called Quick Installer. I didn’t want to use it, since it requires registering. I don’t want to have to become a member of a new organization in order to do something I should be able to do by hand. And I have installed WordPress many times before for my other blogs. I want to get to the bottom of this problem, not hack my way around it!

HostGator; PHP 5.4

I now find that – even with the Yoast XML Sitemap being disabled – the webpage is being redirected to itself in an endless loop. This occurs whenever the permalink is anything other than the default, “/?p=xxx”.

This is causing all external links to webpages on my blog to be redirected to the home page. It must be disconcerting for my visitors to click this link in Google search: tanning17.tropicalhouseplants.net/how-to-tan-armpits/ , and end up on the tanning17 homepage, with the offending link still visible in the Address Bar. What do they do now? Most will probably give up!

I discovered the source of the bug described above. It came to me in a dream! It’s not a bug that anyone else will ever have, but it’s solution demonstrates a debugging principle that I was ignoring. So it may be applicable to others in a general sense.

The debugging principle: if a script works on page 1, but not on page 2, then there must be something on page 2 that’s interfering with the script.

In my case, the interfering script was the submitForm script. It was being used only on the Home page. So I deleted it, and the posts using the question & answer format worked properly. ( Now I have to rewrite the deleted script, so it doesn’t cause any interference – but that’s another problem altogether. )

I just searched one-by-one all of he files in the wordpress-seo plugin folder, and NONE of them contained my defunct blog URL, your-homeremedies.com.

So where is the plugin getting this URL to use in its error message???

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Professor

Thank you all for the suggestions.

MaxManX: Tried your suggestion using IE. Same error.

perrij3: I was able to access all tables in the database.

esmi: I looked at your link, but couldn’t make head nor tail of it – I’m not a guru. I don’t have Varnish (?). The only thing I could see to try was to remove <input type=”hidden” name=”testcookie” value=”1″ />, which didn’t change anything. The only other idea that came to me was to try reverting to an earlier version of WordPress. However, I didn’t do it because I have many other blogs that use the latest version, and they’re all working fine.

I think the key to what caused this whole thing is that I bypassed the popup that requested me to login again. That’s the only thing that I did that I didn’t do with my other blogs. Does anybody have any ideas on what this mistake on my part might cause?