[wp-testers] Strange happenings when creating a "child page"

[DD32]

Sounds like this Trac Ticket:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6997

On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:04:36 +1000, WP Testers List <wp-testing at mou.me.uk>  
wrote:

> Morning/afternoon all
>
> Could anyone advise me if this is a bug?  I remember a lot of work being  
> put
> into "canonical" URLs back when 2.3 was being developed, so I don't know
> whether this is a "feature" or a bug - currently, my moneys on bug.
>
> I'm trying to assign a "child" page to a parent.  It relates to a  
> festival I
> go to every year, so I want the structure to be like this:
>
>    http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/2007/
>       and
>    http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/2008/
>
>
> Unfortunately, WordPress doesn't seem to like this.  In fact, if I try to
> visit either of these pages, it displays the content of
> http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/   (ie, the parent).
> I tried renaming the page slug, so that the URL was:
>
>    http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/glastonbury2007/
>
> And this works!  The only problem is, its not what I want.
> So it seems to be using a 4 digit number as a slug thats causing it to
> break.  I tried a few variations to see what was going on - bizarrely,
> using  http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/2007/a/  threw me back to a post I'd
> written in 2007, unrelated to "Glastonbury".
>
>
> Does anyone know whats going on?  Is this something I should be logging  
> on
> Trac?
>
> Short of physically creating a "glastonbury" folder in my root and using  
> the
> template system, I can't see a way round this.
>
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> p.s. Currently on WP 2.5.1
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