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1. Ben Pleysier,

Apr 2, 2012 8:53 AM in reply to johngordon12

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No, because the page can still be found on the server.

Gramps

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2. osgood_,

Apr 2, 2012 9:04 AM in reply to Ben Pleysier

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Altruistic Gramps wrote:

No, because the page can still be found on the server.

Gramps

How's the server finding the index.html page in the 'driving-schools-fort-william-fort-william-som' folder if the OP has deleted it?

You positive you have deleted the folder Iain because the server say otherwise?

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3. johngordon12,

Apr 2, 2012 9:39 AM in reply to osgood_

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I'm pretty sure - its not showing on the remote server under 'files' in DW. And I've double checked looking in the control panel on the server.

That page is a copy of the sites main index page, not the old index.html page that was in the folder.

I have just noticed a line:

In the existing pages. But that doesn't make sense either, as the page has been deleted.

I've added a disallow to that folder in the robots.txt file, so hopefully it'll disappear from Google searches soon, but it is a bit weird as far as I can tell.

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4. osgood_,

Apr 2, 2012 10:12 AM in reply to johngordon12

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What makes even less sense (if as you say you have deleted the folder) is the folder/absolute path to the index.html file is still on the server:

http://www.learners-guide.co.uk/instructors/driving-schools-fort-willi am-fort-william-som/index.html

Even if you had some kind of re-direct going on to another index.html page it makes no sense that the server is saying the index.html is in the 'driving-schools-fort-william-fort-william-som' which you have deleted.

Mind you having taken a look at the code it looks like its partly Wordpress?

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5. johngordon12,

Apr 2, 2012 11:54 AM in reply to osgood_

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Yeah - the original site was done in WP, with individual pages for each driving school. The original web guy basically disappeared or was completely unreliable, and its one I've inherited. I'm glad its not just me thinking its a bit odd. At the moment I assume it is some weird hang up of WP - either way, I'm assuming now I've added the disallow to the robots.txt these pages will just drop off Google's radar.

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6. Jim Carpenter,

Apr 2, 2012 12:00 PM in reply to johngordon12

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If you go to the page in Firefox and try to edit the html, everything from the opening body tag up is gone. I have seen cases where the old pages were cached on the webserver. If this is the case, it should clear up soon.

Jim

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7. johngordon12,

Apr 3, 2012 11:26 AM in reply to Jim Carpenter

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OK, this does seem a bit odd.

I tried it today with a made up page - basically anything will display the homepage if its in the root directory, eg:

http://www.learners-guide.co.uk/no_such_page.html

And any other non existent page in any other folder does the same as the original link, eg:

http://www.learners-guide.co.uk/no_such_folder/no_such_page.html

If anyone has any idea what's going on here that would be much appreciated!

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8. Jim Carpenter,

Apr 3, 2012 11:51 AM in reply to johngordon12

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Have you made custom error pages for the site? Is it possible your 404.htm page was accidently written over with the page that is being delivered?

That's the only think I can think of.

Jim

Edited: If you are on an Apache webserver, it's possilbe that you .htaccess file is pointing the 404 to another file.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.htm

ErrorDocument 500 /500.htm

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9. johngordon12,

Apr 4, 2012 1:33 AM in reply to Jim Carpenter

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Thanks Jim. I found the .htaccess file, and sure enough there was a line:

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

I've changed it to the full URL of the main index page, so no more unstyled versions appearing.

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10. johngordon12,

Apr 4, 2012 2:21 AM in reply to johngordon12

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Actually, that didn't work out, as that just redirected every page to the home page.

So I just deleted the .htaccess file.

I assume that's not a problem?

This was it in full:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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11. osgood_,

Apr 4, 2012 2:48 AM in reply to johngordon12

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Iain71 wrote:

Actually, that didn't work out, as that just redirected every page to the home page.

So I just deleted the .htaccess file.

I assume that's not a problem?

This was it in full:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thought it may have something to do with Wordpress and redirecting.....Wordpress works in a very complex and confusing way unless you know the secrets.

If that was all that was in the htaccess file then it's ok to delete it but you may want to re-instate it at some stage later if you want to redirect users to different/updated pages based on what you do maintenance wise.

As long as the Wordpress Module is removed the htaccess file on the server alone shouldn't do any harm

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