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Website is showing another website on non-existent website page – WordPress

This is a peculiar one.

I work for an agency, and we develop WordPress and JAM Stack sites for our clients.

I have been contacted by the IT team for one of the clients (an NGO), and they flagged something that I have not seen before.

NOTE: I am going to be using example.org as the website, to protect the identity of the client.

Basically, we developed a WordPress site for them, which works great and all, but as it turn outs there is a page on the website which points to a totally different website

The example page is as follows

example.org/news/points-to-different-website/

The news page doesn’t exist in anywhere on WordPress system, and neither does it exist as a custom post type.

And another thing, I noticed is when I removed the / at the end of the URL, it shows the custom 404 page developed for the website

example.org/news/points-to-different-website

But as soon as you add the /, it shows a totally different website.

I have checked all the Apache configuration files related to the site, and it is just the normal setup for any WordPress site.

So, I am wondering what could be causing this, and how can one prevent it?

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    That’s a strange issue. Does example.org/news/points-to-different-website/ actually redirect to another full URL, i.e. differentwebsite.com, or is the different site actually at example.org/news/points-to-different-website/?

    Try

    1. emptying the trash for both pages and posts, as there could be a conflicting slug that is causing a redirect.

    2. Reset permalinks.

    3. Using PHPMyAdmin, search the database for the URL points-to-different-website and see if there is malware or some kind of a redirect, an iFrame, etc.

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    This can sometimes happen if the server hostname is not set up correctly.

    What can happen is website on the server will show in place of a non-existent site or page from another website on the same server.

    If you are using a reseller hosting/shared hosting, then the site could be from another account on the server, the site could also be from another server, for example:

    There are 2 servers with the hostnames serverone.myserver.com and servertwo.myserver.com… A site on serverone might show in place of a site or page on servertwo.

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