[wp-hackers] Need Help, I cannot figure this out.

[Jeremi Bergman]

>
> In my example, I was able to request (from lwp-request) the URL "/about"
> and

was served "/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball<
> http://www.mrsec.com/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball>".


"about" is not a valid page, it's about-2.  But I dont know what would be
redirecting it...

 Jeremi Bergman
865-951-5354


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Dave Viner <dave at vinertech.com> wrote:

> In my example, I was able to request (from lwp-request) the URL "/about"
> and
> was served "/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball<
> http://www.mrsec.com/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball>".
>  Do you see anything in the rewrite logs for that?  I left the date in the
> email (Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:50:53 GMT) so that you can track it
> closely.
>
> If not, then we're pretty certainly in the issue of WP making that redirect
> happen.  In which case, it would be helpful to know what plugins you're
> using and what your permalinks settings are.
>
> Dave Viner
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Shane Chambers <knoxpics at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike, Dave,
> >
> > PHP is sitting at the newest Debian release, with security patches.
> >
> > root at server-new: php --version
> > PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2009
> > 01:50:58)
> > Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
> > Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
> >   with XCache v1.2.2, Copyright (c) 2005-2007, by mOo
> >   with Suhosin v0.9.27, Copyright (c) 2007, by SektionEins GmbH
> >
> > Apache logs the correct request, at least for all the times I've gone
> > looking at it.  (which is quite a few times)
> >
> > I've looked though the rewrite logs, and couldn't find anything
> conclusive.
> >  Nothing referencing changing say "tags/vanderbilt" to anything having to
> do
> > with feed.  (that's why the RewriteLogLevel was set to 9, I wasn't seeing
> > anything at 3, so I bumped it up to max logs)
> >
> > The rest is going to have to wait for Jeremi to chime in about.
> >
> > Shane
> >
> >
> > Mike Little wrote:
> >
> >> Jeremi
> >>
> >> A couple of things to check, when the wrong page is delivered, e.g. rss
> >> feed
> >> instead of about page, what does the apache log record? It will likely
> be
> >> difficult to check when the site is busy but looking for a know ip
> address
> >> at a specific time will help you tie it down. Does the apache log record
> >> the
> >> the request was for about or for the feed? If for the about page, then
> you
> >> can rule out external, influences. I suspect you have got to that stage
> >> already.
> >> The next thing is to tie that request in with the rewrite logs  - I
> think
> >> Shane has already determined that things look ok.
> >>
> >> So you are probably back to something going wrong within WordPress'
> >> execution chain.
> >>
> >> It may be a shot in the dark, but I once had a vaguely similar issue
> with
> >> a
> >> client's site. In this case the page title was being set to the wrong
> >> thing.
> >> So the home page might  have a title tag of search results! It
> >> was intermittent (but was then cached by a front end caching server!)
> but
> >> was defintiley happening under high load.
> >>
> >> I had just enabled All in one SEO plugin, and when I turned it off
> again,
> >> it
> >> went away.
> >>
> >> I think it was going wrong because AIOSEO does whole page buffering and
> I
> >> believed that there might be a threading issue  with specific versions
> of
> >> PHP and output buffering. So that the buffered contents of one request
> >> were
> >> returned to the code running a different request. In my case the site
> was
> >> running an out of date version of PHP, and running on Windows.
> >>
> >> I see you are not running on Windows, but I think it is worth checking
> >> these
> >> two things.
> >> Are you running a plugin that does lots of output buffering?
> >> and is your version of PHP up-to-date?
> >>
> >> Another thing I would try: When you get a wrong page - save the HTML and
> >> headers. Then access the page you received directly and save the HTML
> and
> >> headers. Compare the two pairs (possibly ignoring time stamps). If they
> >> are
> >> identical, then the error may well be in the template/redirection logic
> >> within WordPress and it's plugins.
> >> If they are different, then I would more strongly suspect output
> >> buffering.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
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