[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3934: prev/next links and redirected domains

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#3934: prev/next links and redirected domains
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 Reporter:  davidmwilliams  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:  2.3      
Component:  Administration  |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:           
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 Fundamentally, I have a domain (alivad.com) which redirects via DNS to my
 ISP web space (http://home.exetel.com.au/davidmwilliams). I set the
 WordPress URI to http://www.alivad.com and the Blog address to
 http://www.alivad.com - both are the same.

 This works, in that WordPress shows links for posts, categories, pages,
 etc in the format I want, namely http://www.alivad.com/?blah

 HOWEVER the previous and next page links at the bottom of the page are
 showing wrongly as http://www.alivad.com/davidmwilliams/index.php?paged=x
 (and, of course, these are invalid addresses).

 I can't understand why the 'davidmwilliams' part is being added like that.
 It seems the next/prev page links are working out the address by a mixture
 of the blog address and the physical underlying directory. I am surmising
 it uses different code to generate the link than as used for posts,
 categories, etc.

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 I originally submitted this as ticket 3933
 (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3933) but that was prematurely closed. I
 do NOT believe the bug report should be closed. Unfortunately I do not
 have the authority level to append to tickets so I have no choice but to
 create a new one.

 Responding to the comment by the premature closer: If I change the blog
 address then the links work in that they generate accurate links. However,
 they are no longer in the desired format - i.e. all page headings and all
 links show as http://home.exetel.com.au/davidmwilliams/... rather than
 http://www.alivad.com/...

 Please understand, what I am trying to do is not obscure nor unreasonable
 nor ridiculous nor outlandish.

 Let me restate the problem:
 * The blog address is www.blah.com
 * blah.com is a valid domain
 * blah.com is redirected via DNS to www.isp.com/foo
 * ALL page and category links are generated by WordPress as
 www.blah.com/... as expected and as desired
 * The prev and next links do NOT display in that format; they show as
 www.blah.com/foo/... and hence refer to non-existant pages

 The implications of this are:
 * the prev/next link code is different to the code to generate links
 elsewhere
 * the prev/next link code is itself determining the underlying page
 address and is not respecting the blog address that has been specified

 I believe this is a bug. Even if others feel what I am doing is somehow
 "strange" I am sure it can be appreciated that the prev/next link code is
 not consistent with other link code, and that in itself is a reason for
 wanting some tidying.

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