Help! Permanent redirect in local

maakbow

Hi. I was testing various variable naming within the homepage of my site
Using this from the documentation

url*: Link dialog with autocomplete for pages

I used this exact name "url" without any other name appended to the variable

So on the home page I entered the url of a page into this field and the home page is now permanently redirected to to that url. I removed all of those variables from the home page template. saved, purged cache, restarted the local server.

I can see the "data and settings" part of the home page but clicking on "in page edit", clicking on home in the nav or anything else that should open the home page gets redirected.

I've also tried adding the @{ url } variable back into the home template but it doesn't show up... but adding any other variable does show up.

I think I've done something forbidden.. Thanks for any help offered

mad

maakbow Hi, the url variable doesn’t necessarily have to be placed in a template to redirect a page. It’s built-in. Defining it turns a page into an alias. Therefore the In-Page editing behaved as you described. But I will take a deeper look at it later. Hope I’ve understood you correctly. But you should be able to edit the page using the dashboard.

maakbow

I was just experimenting with all the pre named variable like 'color', 'date' etc and seeing what their input was, not really trying to do anything. I put them all in the homepage template. My method of learning try>fail > observe >try > succeed.

All the variables showed up as inputs in the dashboard/homepage as expected. So I inserted a url of another page (not really knowing what it would do).

This is when the redirect started happening but the url variable field in the dashboard somehow is no longer displayed, even though it was in the template still.

So I deleted it from the template. It makes no difference of it's in the template or not, it doesn't show on the dashboard and page still redirects. Adding back in template... still doesn't show. It's like it changed something at a deeper level.

mad

maakbow Ahhh, ok. I will try to reproduce that later today. Thanks for reporting! 😊

maakbow

Not sure what happened but after another restart the redirect seems to have gone. YAY

mad

🥳