Resolved no longer existent subdomain issue

[jorge ceballos]

Server operating system version

CentOS Linux 7.9.2009

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.55 update 2

Hi,

Had subdomain ww2.domain.com working for a website for many years.
Some months ago, we decided to use main domain.com and weeks later - using the cp - deleted subdomain ww2, as it was no longer used.

Everything was fine until past week when in order to makethe site more SEO friendly, WP permalinks were changed from regular "page?=123" link to "/the-name-of-the-post".
All the post recreated their slug correctly but when trying to open them, they redirect to the old, no longer existent ww2.domain.com - showing network error of course as there are no DNS records on this subdomain.
Reviewed everything in the site, including the site's DB, related to some possible link not properly reconfigured, to no avail.
Even greped all the files in the whole server looking for ww2. and found nothing either

This leads me to think that the issue may be located in the PSA tables where something was left of the ww2 subdomain.

Any idea anyone?

TIA

 

[Kaspar]

Did also searched trough the database of your wordpress installation for the ww2 subdomain as well? My experience with WP link issues is that often some snipets are left in various tables of the WP database.

 

[jorge ceballos]

Hi Kaspar,
Following your advice, reviewed all the databases in the domain, erased the ones no longer needed and left only the site's actual database.
None of the erased DB had any info or were related to the former ww2.domain.com site. Please remember the ww2.domain site was deleted several weeks ago.

I'm pretty lost on this.

Thanks,

Did also searched trough the database of your wordpress installation for the ww2 subdomain as well? My experience with WP link issues is that often some snipets are left in various tables of the WP database.

 

[Kaspar]

Can't imaging plesk store a lot of domain configration data in the PSA database. But you could of course search trough the PSA for ww2 remnants.

Another suggestion would be zip/archive the website, export the WP database and completely delete the domain from Plesk. That way all domain configration/data should have been deleted from the server. Then re-create the domain and restore the website manually from the DB export and zip/archive.

 

[jorge ceballos]

Kaspar,
Thanks for your help.
It happened to be a .htaccess error .
Still what keeps intriguing me is why did it redirect to a no longer existent site.|

¿ dns cache maybe? how can it be flushed?
Thanks again

 

[jorge ceballos]

Hi,

Had subdomain ww2.domain.com working for a website for many years.
Some months ago, we decided to use main domain.com and weeks later - using the cp - deleted subdomain ww2, as it was no longer used.

Everything was fine until past week when in order to makethe site more SEO friendly, WP permalinks were changed from regular "page?=123" link to "/the-name-of-the-post".
All the post recreated their slug correctly but when trying to open them, they redirect to the old, no longer existent ww2.domain.com - showing network error of course as there are no DNS records on this subdomain.
Reviewed everything in the site, including the site's DB, related to some possible link not properly reconfigured, to no avail.
Even greped all the files in the whole server looking for ww2. and found nothing either

This leads me to think that the issue may be located in the PSA tables where something was left of the ww2 subdomain.

Any idea anyone?

TIA

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[Peter Debik]

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