site is being redirected to a different site and I don't know why

saebel

Okay. So I have a site: splash.cordega.com, which is pointing to an application: summerville_splash, which is a word press site. I had no issues with it until today when I was trying to figure out how to have the actual domains I'm going to be using point to the same application. There are three domains (summervilleforcongress.com, .net, .org). Of the domains, two out of the three (.net, .org) were redirected to opalstack a little while ago. The third is going to get redirected later tonight.

I set up a different route for each .net, .org, .com. Then, to my surprise, when I typed in https://splash.cordega.com, I got sent to the https://summervilleforcongress.org site instead. But because of Let's Encrypt issues, I was getting a warning. So I decided to changing things around.

I created a new application: summerville_redirects so that the .net and .org would auto forward to splash.cordega.com. The summervilleforcongress.com route I "disabled", figuring to reenable it later.

Then (and I'm guessing it has to do with the route hierarchy ) whenever I went to splash.cordega.com, instead of going to wordpress application, it sent me to the existing summervilleforcongress.com site that is being hosted elsewhere.

That seems like a major bug to me. I don't have any redirection rules in place for that.

What's worse is that even after deleting the summervilleforcongress.com route all together, it's still being forwarded to the other site. This is a big problem.

How can I fix this? I don't even know where to begin.

sean

saebel the redirect is coming from your Wordpress internal settings, ie the "Wordpress Address" and "Site Address" settings in your WP dashboard.

If you had the "auto site URL" option enabled for your WP app at some point, then it's possible that our dashboard set that to the wrong value. It's a well-intentioned feature, but it doesn't work well when a WP app is attached to a site that uses multiple domains/subdomains. If you think that's the case, then that's our bad! We'll have it fixed in a future update to the platform.

Your WP installation includes a copy of the WP-CLI tool, so you can verify those settings by running the following commands while logged into SSH as your app's shell user:

cd ~/apps/appname
wp option get home
wp option get siteurl

If you want to set them to https://mydomain.com then you can do that with a similar sequence of commands:

cd ~/apps/appname
wp option update home https://mydomain.com
wp option update siteurl https://mydomain.com

I'm using generic examples here for the benefit of other users who might need the same info, so substitute appname and https://mydomain.com with your stuff.

Hope this helps! 🙂

saebel

So I've taken the following steps. I created three separate Site Routes. One for the .org, one for the .net, and one for the .com. All three of them are pointing to the "summerville_redirects" application which has a single .htaccess file with a single line of code: Redirect 301 / https://splash.cordega.com/

The summerville_splash route connects splash.cordega.com to the summerville_splash application. It's not working. No matter what browser I use, if I put in splash.cordega.com I get sent to summervilleforcongress.com (which is hosted on Host Gator until later tonight).

This is very frustrating.

saebel

sean
Okay. Hmm. I'm definitely stuck. I tried turning on allowing the control panel to manage the URL for the application, but that didn't work.

Also, the redirect varies if I go with https://splash.cordega.com, it sends me to https://summervilleforcongress.org/.

(sigh).

I will try your suggestions above.

saebel

sean
According to the back end, both the home and site url are set to splash.cordega.com, but everything is still being redirected incorrectly. And because it is being redirected, I can't log into to the WP admin panel.

saebel

I'm stuck and don't know what to do. The .com, .net, .org site routes are pointing to the summerville_redirect app. The .htaccess file in the redirect app is pointing to the splash.cordega.com. the summerville splash route connects splash.cordega.com to the summerville_splash app. But no matter what I do, I get sent to either http://summervilleforcongress.com or https://summervilleforcongress.org. The site is completely ignoring all my settings. 🙁

sean

saebel I've just sent a message to your account email address for confirmation before I actually get into your files.