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    • FlyingC
      FlyingC last edited by

      WP is doing this somehow, and creating URLs for hundreds of pages that don't exist. HOW is this happening, and how do I stop It?  I have many, many URLS like this: https://www.atouchofrust.com/terms-of-use/atouchofrust.com/vendor-news. Of note, atouchofrust.com/terms-of-use, and atouchofrust.com/vendor-news are both legit pages on the site. Why they are being concatenated is beyond my limited understanding of WP. Please, somebody, help.

      Cori

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      • Nigel_Carr
        Nigel_Carr last edited by

        Hi

        I don't know anything about your website but it looks to me like the links on the page do not have https://www. in front of them and are therefore appending themselves to the page they are on instead of creating a link to another page.. So look at the links on the page:

        If the page is

        https://www.atouchofrust.com/terms-of-use/

        and you add a link to that page thus:

        atouchofrust.com/vendor-news

        Then the result will be a concatenated string thus:

        https://www.atouchofrust.com/terms-of-use/atouchofrust.com/vendor-news

        Which will 404.

        If you change the link on the page to

        **https://www.**atouchofrust.com/vendor-news

        Then the link will resolve to the page it is meant to.

        I think that is your problem. Go through all the cross site links and add the https://www

        Regards

        Nigel

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