sadams101 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) This issue exists on my site, and could be a bug. The URL redirect issue was alerted to my by SEMRush, which indicated that I have hundreds of pages on my site that are redirecting from links like this: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 To links like this: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ After exploring this issue in more detail, I have discovered that if you go to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 the landing URL is sometimes: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 OR, it may look like this: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ If the landing URL ever shows up as: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 and you hit the refresh button on your browser, the landing page URL will change to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ I believe that something is messed up with the coding here, but of course, it is possible since I use custom templates that the issue lies in my site's coding. I am inviting comments on this, and it would be great to see if others have this issue as well. I did test this using the default skin, and the bug exists there as well. Edited April 24, 2020 by sadams101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adlago Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I did 10 tests - by placing this link in a browser address https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 The result is always https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ I did this test with 3 browsers - Mozilla, Chrome and Chromium, under Ubuntu 16 OS. All tests are out of the issue. I think - is this not a issue on your computer? Have you cleared your browser cache and cookies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadams101 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 As mentioned, this is being flagged to me by a 3rd party--SEMRush, and it flags this issue hundreds of times, as I have many articles with several pages of comments. Here is a screen shot of the issues flagged by SEMRush: I have also personally verified this issue, although I cannot predict exactly when or why it happens, it is happening. I am using the latest version of Chrome in desktop when I can see this happening myself. PS - Be sure to use the page link on that page to test...going directly to the link doesn't always trigger this. Using the links on the page is how I can see this happening. If I have time I'll will post a video of this happening. For me all I need to do is click page 3 button, or one of the other pages you are not on, and the landing URL is: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 Refresh the page and it changes to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsesx Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 54 minutes ago, sadams101 said: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 Refresh the page and it changes to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ It changes indeed the URL on your site. On my installation it keeps /?page=2 Maybe you have something wrong in your .htaccess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadams101 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 And did you try reloading the page when it was on /?page=2 ? I will do more testing, but I don't believe anything in .htaccess would do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadams101 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 So I created a ticket for this, and got this reply from IPB: Quote This is the way the software works currently, this isn't a bug. There is nothing technically wrong to fix in this case. As I've found with several IPB widgets, member pages, and other areas where 301 redirects are intentionally used in this software, it's better to fix them as they can create Google Crawl Anomalies where your content can drop from their index. It looks like I'll have to have a plugin made to fix this one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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