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Can someone help unravel this?

by Maximus53
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I have a problem which is causing a bandwidth problem. This just started happening recently and I don't know why. I have checked the settings in wordpress against another site I have and they seem exactly the same. I can't google the correct question to find out how to fix this. It's beginning to drive me mad. I have looked at permalinks & htaccess etc

If I click on a category it appends itself to the previous category and adds the website name and catergory again & again and does not open in it's own page as shown below.

Family | Wind And Solar

I can use the back button on the browser to go backwards to the homepage but if I click on the 'Home' tab I get a 404 error.

404 Document Not Found (hits on favicon excluded) 36,345 Hits 47.2 % per cent 779.23 MB bandwidth

I would really appreciate any help on this

Regards,
Max
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  • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
    You have the "top" of the site defined as "http:windsolarblog.net" in some variable, rather than as "http://windsolarblog.net". For whatever reason, that's then seen as a relative link, rather than the intended absolute link, and furthermore, it actually "works", in the sense of delivering that content at the undesired, longer link. (At least it did for me; those 404's show that it doesn't always work.)

    Normally, I'd suggest making all relative links, well, relative, but for the moment, I'd just find that variable, add the two slashes, and you should be much closer to your goal, if not completely resolved.
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    • Profile picture of the author Maximus53
      I see what you mean but the site was set up as http:// and that's what shows in the address bar
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      • Profile picture of the author Maximus53
        it seems that if the site is set up as http:// rather than http://www then it appears to not show the http:// but is is there and I have another blog/s the same and they are not displaying this oddity
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  • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
    I think you're missing my point. There must be a variable somewhere in your code which is set to "http:windsolarblog.net" (notice: no slash-slash), so the browser takes that to be a file name in the current directory, which in turn is adding more and more to the right end of the URL. This is not a www-vs.-no-www issue; this is a variable which probably should've had the slash-slash set and doesn't.
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    • Profile picture of the author Maximus53
      Oh - I understand now, I shall have a look around and see what gives. Thanks very much for your guidance.
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      • Profile picture of the author Maximus53
        Well you were right David . I check the permalink page and it is showing as
        http:windsolarblog.net/2013/09/sample-post/ as the default because the Site address(URL) was wrong now how do I edit that to change it?
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        • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
          Go under Settings->General ->WordPress Address (URL)
          Site Address (URL)
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          ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
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          • Profile picture of the author Maximus53
            Hi Robin, Yeah I checked there but it is greyed out
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            • Profile picture of the author Maximus53
              I made adjustments via myphpadmin and wp-config.php to adjust the site url value and now it's ok. Thank you Robin and David
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