Redirect going to the wrong place

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  printmakerswa · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 5:09 am

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  I tried to purchase a redirect for our site to go to: pawa.org.au

  It sent it to pawa.org.au/about instead – which doesn’t exist so it’s generating 404 errors.

  I have cancelled the redirect but it is still happening.
  Blog url: http://printmakers.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 5:39 pm

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  Your site is loading properly for me. Can you please try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies?

  Solve Common Browser Issues

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  printmakerswa · Member · Feb 3, 2012 at 12:07 am

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  I did clear caches first.

  I have isolated it further – it is only affecting the About page. If I try to view site from that page on the dashboard or click it from a Google search (it’s the one at the top when searching “printmaking, pawa” for example) – the about page was going to a 404. I now have a work around in place at the new site with a 301 redirecting to the correct page.

  I realise, thinking about it now, that when I purchased the redirect I was expecting all traffic to go to the page I requested “pawa.org.au” not try to map individual pages – because they may not all exist.

  Thankyou

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 3, 2012 at 12:54 am

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  That’s actually normal, the redirect really only works if you maintain the same permalink structure.