jonathanc Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 I have a personal website which I setup and manage fully using Wordpress. I was tinkering around with Google Webmaster tools and tried to verify my website after I added it for the Google crawler bots. I used the "upload" method and after Googgling I was told to create a new page with the name of the verification file (googgle1234.html for example). So in theory this should work out in Wordpress as : http://www.mywebsite.com/googgle1234.html so Google could verify the link. However, it doesn't work so I deleted the page as it was messing my layout. Now when I try to connect to my website it will automatically try to connect to http://www.mywebsite.com/googgle1234.html instead of http://www.mywebsite.com! I've checked all WordPress settings and its correct. I just don't know why it tries to redirect to that URL? Please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallshinyant Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Just checking, its not your browser using its cache is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 Just checking, its not your browser using its cache is it? Nope. I cleared cache but still the same. It just redirects to the page which I deleted. Somehow I suspect I messed up the permalinks. I recreated that page in WP and it redirects one. But if I delete that page it will give 404 error. Grrr.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomssupra Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Sounds like caching to me too - do you still have your index.php? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 Solved. The problem lies in a plugin called "Redirection" plugin. It goes crazy if you unexpectedly deletes the first post shown on your home page. Deactivating it solved my problems. I hope this will help other WP users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallshinyant Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Well done for working it out. and another solution to add to "in case somebody asks" bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 in future just make the google html file and ftp it to your site, doesn't have to be in wordpress or interface with it in any way its just to verify the url Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 in future just make the google html file and ftp it to your site, doesn't have to be in wordpress or interface with it in any way its just to verify the url Aye wanted to do that but I forgot my login credentials. My mate is hosting my site on his server for free. This reminds me though... I wonder if its possible to move my whole website over to another hosting company as my mate mentioned he only paid for 2 years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Aye wanted to do that but I forgot my login credentials. My mate is hosting my site on his server for free. This reminds me though... I wonder if its possible to move my whole website over to another hosting company as my mate mentioned he only paid for 2 years... Yes You will get a DNS downtime of upto 48 hours but if you keep the domain everything else should be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I can provide you some matesrate hosting if you like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 Yes You will get a DNS downtime of upto 48 hours but if you keep the domain everything else should be fine hmm, bear with me as I am a little new to this I've registered a domain name myself @ dynadot and my mate did the rest. So if I were to move the whole website from his hosting company to another, what should I do? Mates pretty busy these days so don't want to bother him that much if I could sort things mostly myself. edit: about the downtime, I was told my my mate that I would have to wait up to 48 hours for the website to go live but it took like 15 min Wonder if this would be the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 I can provide you some matesrate hosting if you like I am interested mate Need to know some details like bandwidth, size etc etc though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 well it will be shared with me, i get 1tb of transfer and 100gb of space, ill just create you a little side account on there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathanc Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 Ahh I see mate. That's what I have with my mate at the moment (although he told me space is unlimited on his hosting server). I'm looking to get my own hosting server as I have some plans coming up that will need that So now I am sort of shopping around. Thanks for your kind offer though! Really appreciate it I wonder if I can have multiple domain names to a single hosting server though. ie host 2 or more websites on a single server? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 I can, but on most hosting options usually you can't unless you subdomain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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