WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Helpful URL editing/replacing/correcting/substitution http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/helpful-url-editingreplacingcorrectingsubstitution WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Helpful URL editing/replacing/correcting/substitution en Tue, 21 May 2013 18:48:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 airodyssey on "Helpful URL editing/replacing/correcting/substitution" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/helpful-url-editingreplacingcorrectingsubstitution#post-526635 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:23:28 +0000 airodyssey 526635@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. This might be the answer, but if you want to confirm, feel free to contact staff like timethief said:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blogger-to-wp-with-301-redirect?replies=7#post-513727

]]> timethief on "Helpful URL editing/replacing/correcting/substitution" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/helpful-url-editingreplacingcorrectingsubstitution#post-526430 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:07:43 +0000 timethief 526430@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm sorry but I cannot help with this. Have you contacted Staff?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

]]> tactilerevolution on "Helpful URL editing/replacing/correcting/substitution" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/helpful-url-editingreplacingcorrectingsubstitution#post-526057 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:09:35 +0000 tactilerevolution 526057@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Something is remapping my pages. I used tio have a page called example.com/prefix/ABC/topic and a page called example.com/prefix/XYZ/topic. I deleted example.com/prefix/ABC and everything under it, so example.com/prefix/ABC/topic should now be returning 404. But when I access example.com/prefix/ABC/topic by entering it into the address bar of my browser (Firefox 3.6) I do not get a 404. Instead I get example.com/prefix/XYZ/topic.

It appears that some excessively helpful service is noticing the 404, finding an alternate URL with the same leaf name (in this case "topic") and redirecting to the "corrected" URL.

I am pretty sure that the issue is not a browser issue because Google denies requests to remove the example.com/prefix/ABC/topic URL from their cache because it does not generate a 404 when the GoogleBot tries to access it. And when I send the GoogleBot directly at the target URL example.com/prefix/ABC/topic it happily reports success at fetching prefix/XYZ/topic/. So I think the wordpress server is giving the extra help. I speculate that a hyperactive spelling corrector is the cause.

How can I tell it to stop helping?

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