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[Melynda]

Hi, I saw you guys had a known issue with this a couple years ago. I’m running WP 4.2.2 with the latest updated Events Calendar PRO 4.1.1 (paid). We consistently see traffic to http://www.mvcoffeenews.com/WP_Router/wp-router-placeholder-page/ in our website stats. If I browse to the URL it redirects me to the home page. Can someone please advise how I can correct this? I really don’t want to be editing PHP.

[George]

Hey @Melynda,

Thanks for reaching out!

1. There are a few different reasons this could be happening…to help us investigate, can you first update your WordPress version to 4.4.2? You’re on 4.2.2 which is a bit behind, and that could be factor here. (Being out-of-date is also just less secure, so updating is a great first measure here regardless!)

2. Once you’ve updated, can you then post your system information here so we can take a look through and see if anything stands out as problematic?

3. Head into your site’s wp-admin and look in the “Pages” to see if you have an actual page in your page with the title “Events”. If you have such a page, delete it—this page, if titled “Events”, will try to use the /events slug on your site. But The Events Calendar is also trying to use that slug, so issues can arise….

Thank you!
George

[Melynda]

1. Hi, sorry, I typo’d my wordpress version. We are up to date on 4.4.2.

2. System info below:

// Generated by the RS System Diagnostic Plugin //

//// Browser of Current Viewer ///////////////////

Platform: Windows
Browser Name: Chrome
Browser Version: 49.0.2623.87
User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36

//// End Browser of Current Viewer ///////////////

Website Name: Coffee News

WordPress Address (URL): http://www.mvcoffeenews.com | site_url() – The location where your WordPress core files reside.
Site Address (URL): http://www.mvcoffeenews.com | home_url() – The URL people should use to get to your site.

WordPress Version: 4.4.2
Multisite: No
Permalink Structure: /%postname%/
Active Theme: Coffee News – Thematic Child Theme 1.0

Web Host: Cloudways

PHP Version: 5.6.17-0+deb8u1
MySQL Version: 5.5.47-0+deb8u1
Server Software: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) / Linux
Server Hostname: 47821-38950.cloudwaysapps.com

WP Memory Limit: 40M | WARNING – PERFORMANCE: WordPress Memory Limit too low. Should be at least 64MB. 96-128MB+ is recommended.
WP Admin Memory Limit: 256M
Current WP Memory Used: 64.81M
Max WP Memory Used: 64.81M
PHP Safe Mode: No
PHP Memory Limit: 256M
PHP Upload Max Size: 10M
PHP Post Max Size: 10M
PHP Upload Max Filesize: 10M
PHP Time Limit: 60
PHP Max Input Vars: 2500
PHP Arg Separator: &
PHP Allow URL File Open: Yes
PHP Short Open Tags: Disabled
Expose PHP: No

WP_DEBUG: Disabled
WP_DEBUG_LOG: Disabled
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: Enabled
SCRIPT_DEBUG: Disabled
WP_CACHE: Enabled
AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL: 60
WP_POST_REVISIONS: 1
EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS: 30
DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT: Not set | WARNING – SECURITY: This should be enabled.

WP Database Size: 50.86M
WP Table Prefix Length: 3 | ERROR: Too Short
WP Table Prefix Default: Yes | WARNING – SECURITY: The WP Table Prefix should be changed to a custom value between 8-16 characters long.

Show On Front: page
Page On Front: Welcome to Coffee News! (#203)
Page For Posts: (#0)
Registered Post Stati: publish, future, draft, pending, private, trash, auto-draft, inherit, wc-pending, wc-processing, wc-on-hold, wc-completed, wc-cancelled, wc-refunded, wc-failed

WP Remote Post: wp_remote_post() works

PHP Sessions: Inactive
Default Session Name: PHPSESSID | WARNING – SECURITY: ‘session.name’ should be set to a custom value, not the PHP default.
Session Cookie Path: /
Session Save Path: /var/lib/php5/sessions
Use Session Cookies: On
Session Use Cookies Only: On
Session Cookie HTTP Only: Off | WARNING – SECURITY: ‘session.cookie_httponly’ should be enabled to prevent JavaScript from accessing Session Cookies.

DISPLAY ERRORS: N/A
ERROR LOGGING: On
ERROR LOG LOCATION: Not Set | WARNING – SECURITY: ‘error_log’ should be set to a custom location outside the web root.
ERROR REPORTING LEVEL: E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR | E_USER_WARNING | E_USER_ERROR | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_CORE_WARNING | E_CORE_ERROR | E_PARSE | E_WARNING | E_ERROR

FSOCKOPEN: Your server supports fsockopen.
cURL: Your server supports cURL.
SOAP Client: Your server has the SOAP Client enabled.
SUHOSIN: Your server does not have SUHOSIN installed.
MySQLi: Your server has the MySQLi extension enabled.

ACTIVE PLUGINS:

ActiveCampaign: 6.25
Advanced Post Manager: 4.1
Akismet: 3.1.10
Attachments: 3.5.7
AWeber Integration: 2.3.1
Business Directory Plugin: 3.7.4
Business Directory Plugin – Claim Listings Module: 1.0.4
Business Directory Plugin – Enhanced Categories Module: 3.6.2
Business Directory Plugin – Featured Levels Module: 3.6.5
Business Directory Plugin – File Attachments Module: 3.6.1
Business Directory Plugin – Google Maps Module: 3.6.3
Business Directory Plugin – PayPal Gateway Module: 3.5.2
Business Directory Plugin – Ratings Module: 3.6.1
Business Directory Plugin – Regions Module: 3.6.4
Business Directory Plugin – ZIP Search Module: 3.6.4
Disable Comments: 1.4
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP: 4.9.2
Image Widget: 4.2.2
Jetpack by WordPress.com: 3.9.6
Leadin: 4.6.8
Ninja Forms: 2.9.40
Patched Up Community Events Captcha: 1.0
Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin: 5.1.7
RS System Diagnostic: 1.0.1
Simple Image Ads: 0.1
The Events Calendar: 4.1.1
The Events Calendar: Community Events: 4.1.1
The Events Calendar PRO: 4.1.1
Tracking Code Manager: 1.10.12
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore: 1.12.2
Use Any Font: 4.4.3
W3 Total Cache: 0.9.4.1
Welcome to WordPress: 1.0
WooCommerce: 2.5.5

TOTAL ACTIVE PLUGINS: 34 | WARNING – PERFORMANCE: Using this many plugins can cause site slowdowns and conflicts. Try to minimize plugins used.

INACTIVE PLUGINS:

Business Directory Plugin – 2Checkout Gateway Module: 3.6.2
Business Directory Plugin – Discount Codes Module: 1.1.1
Business Directory Plugin – PayFast Payment Module: 3.5.2
Business Directory Plugin – Stripe Payment Module: 3.6.2
Wordfence Security: 6.0.25

TOTAL INACTIVE PLUGINS: 5

3. I don’t see a page called Events.

Thanks.

[George]

Hey @Melynda,

Thank you for this!

This information shows that your site is running the latest versions of The Events Calendar and its add-ons, so there is not a version conflict causing these problems….

I still am unable to reproduce the problems, though. 🙁 So this could mean that there’s a plugin or theme conflict on your site.

I’m curious, do you have any way of knowing if the “traffic” to that URL is from actual human traffic? What tools are you using to analyze that traffic? It could just be bots and web crawlers trying to index your site or something—and plus, if humans end up at that URL they get immediately redirected to the homepage.

So there may not be a “bug” or “problem” here—something with the configuration of plugins and themes on your site might be making that WP_Router/wp-router-placeholder-page/ slug available to XML Sitemap indexing tools, or search engines, or bots, etc.—they fill find nothing there and it will not impact your site, SEO, anything at all like that.

Then, if humans end up at the URL for some reason, they simple end up at the homepage.

If you can elaborate on how you know traffic is ending up there, that might be very helpful here.

Also, can you clarify what your primary concern is? Have you heard from users that they click an event link and end up at this URL, for example?

Thank you!
George

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