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404 error oddity

1 Feb 02, 2016 01:11    

[6.6.7: www.qldbushfire.com.au]

If I click on the link to

http://www.qldbushfire.com.au/manage

in the list of collections in the back end, I get the appropriate page and content displayed. However, if I create a link in the sidebar on the home/main page -qldbushfire.com.au - to the /manage page, I get a 404 error. Why is this happening? I have the basic sample.htaccess file renamed to .htaccess. I gave up on a multi-domain install because I thought this problem was related to all of that. I now have the site sitting on its own domain, and I still have this problem.

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2 Feb 02, 2016 02:45

Have you installed and enabled the mod_rewrite moudle on your apache?

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3 Feb 02, 2016 07:17

Yes it is. I have other b2 installs running OK.The B2 system log tells me

A redirection to an external URL http://www.qldbushfire.com.au/ was blocked for security reasons - Empty object ID

which I assume refers to the post title (set to optional).

Also, I note that a sidebar link to http://www.qldbushfire.com.au I have set up on the /manage page only appears on that page when accessed from the backend/collections link.

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4 Feb 02, 2016 08:50

@tgodfrey
Sorry, I don't know why the same domain url 'http://www.qldbushfire.com.au/' gives an external URL warning, however you can turn it off by changing the value of the file conf\_advanced.php from

$allow_redirects_to_different_domain = 'all_collections_and_redirected_posts';

to
$allow_redirects_to_different_domain = 'always';

But I think it is not the reason why you get the 404 error.
I suggest that you use the other URLs method, such as 'Extra path on index.php' instead for a moment.

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5 Feb 02, 2016 23:15

Your URL suggestion works - thanks for that.

It would be good to know what is causing the odd behaviour.

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