November 20, 2018, 9:45 am
We had a problem with the website that folks going to www.coyoteblog.com were getting the correct content but folks going to coyoteblog.com without the www were getting dated and/or unformatted content. This seemed super odd to me. I checked all my DNS records, particularly the A and CNAME and they looked fine. I searched for the issue but no one's issues matched mine precisely. I suspected that it was an issue with caching but turning off the cache did not fix it.
In the end the fix was simple. In WordPress Settings - General I had set the domain name as https://coyoteblog.com. It had been that way forever. Somehow, something on the server or in wordpress or most likely in one of my plugins changed so that calls to coyoteblog.com confused it. The simple fix was to change the setting for the wordpress site to https://coyoteblog.com. Now everything seems to resolve normally. I hope.
September 3, 2007, 10:24 pm
Back in 2003 when I set up this blog, I knew less than nothing about how to do it. I mostly did things in a way I am still happy with, but I made one mistake. In setting up the domain mapping from CoyoteBlog.com to Typepad, I mapped CoyoteBlog.com to my entire Typepad account, not just this blog. As a result, my permalinks take the form of www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/blahblah.html rather than www.coyoteblog.com/blahblah.
I now know how to fix it, but when the site republishes, I am pretty sure that anyone who has ever linked to a permalink on the site will get an error, because they will be remapped to the shorter address in the www rather than the /coyote_blog domain. My question is this, if I access to all the A and MX and CNAME etc. records for CoyoteBlog, is there some way to calls the the www.CoyoteBlog.com/Coyote_blog/ domain to www.CoyoteBlog.com/ ? If I can do this, I *think* my old permalinks will work. Maybe.
I probably will be too scared to try this, unless I can get a good solution for this problem
