Undesired redirection after plugin removal

index page is redirected to a missing directory

[NixRenewbie]

I installed a mapping plugin that was supposed to allow registered users to mark their location on a Google map. The plugin did not perform as advertised, so I de-activated & deleted it.

Now, going to

http://myurl.com/subdirectory/

does not grab the index.php file, but re-directs to

http://myurl.com/subdirectory/map/

and yields a 404 error.

What am I looking for? Whatever it is, I can't see it and until I do, my visitors are going to get a 404 UNLESS they type in the full address of any page EXCEPT index.php.

Http://myurl.com/subdirectory/year/title

works.

That's not real likely. This is a low volume blog, but not for lack of effort.

Additionally, and possibly unrelated, while nosing around I found a couple of index.php files that contained only a commented out "Silence is golden" for a total of 60 bytes each but the index.php file in the affected directory is 397 bytes and appears to be the real McCoy with perms of 0644.

[NixRenewbie]

I should mention that at 4 am it was working just fine. And no, I wasn't fiddling with back-end stuff.

[NixRenewbie]

Oh, and if I come at it via

http://myotherurl.com

it responds just fine.

Maybe I should just promote the boogers out of

http://myotherurl.com

? (That does leave the issue of 404's for the missing homepage on the other url, though. Not pretty.

More than that, I was looking to move the whole shebang to another address soon and I don't need any extra complications making life more miserable than it needs to be.

[g1smd]

Presumably you have inadvertently deleted some rewrite code that the site relied on to work, and which is now missing.

Check back to see what is in the default .htaccess file for a fresh install, and compare it with what you have now.

[NixRenewbie]

Solved. Unfortunate interplay between the Redirection plugin and the fw Googlemaps plugin. Note that the Redirection plugin was working great until I installed the maps plugin but that even un/re-installing it does not fix the situation.

[jdMorgan]

> Maybe I should just promote the boogers out of [myotherurl.com...]

if you care about your search engine ranking, you should link to and promote only one hostname for your site. All variations that are not *exactly* the correct hostname should be 301-redirected to that single, correct hostname.

Lacking that, you are effectively working mightily to create "competitors" for your own site, and promoting those competitors. This means that the ranking for your pages will be diluted and reduced, just as if those pages had real third-party competitors for search ranking...

Jim