https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-permalink-structure-breaks-redirects-and-text-confirmation Gravity Support Forums Topic: Custom permalink structure breaks redirects and text confirmation en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:07:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-permalink-structure-breaks-redirects-and-text-confirmation#post-4092 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:45:07 +0000 Carl Hancock 4092@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>No, but it appears to be a hosting or WordPress issue as if I go straight to that URL I get a 404, so it's not a Gravity Forms specific issue.</p> <p>I would check to make sure there isn't anything crazy going on in your .htaccess file that might be causing the permalinks to have problems. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-permalink-structure-breaks-redirects-and-text-confirmation#post-4085 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:26:02 +0000 shepting 4085@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This occurs on a page resolving to <a href="http://www.solidodesign.com/whitepaper-download/" rel="nofollow">http://www.solidodesign.com/whitepaper-download/</a> when permalinks are on (Custom Structure of /%category%/%postname%/) and <a href="http://www.solidodesign.com/?page_id=1187" rel="nofollow">http://www.solidodesign.com/?page_id=1187</a> otherwise.</p> <p>Neither text confirmations, nor page redirects, nor other redirects (file or other website) show up when this custom permalink structure is in place.</p> <p>Are there other settings that could be affecting the way this should work? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-permalink-structure-breaks-redirects-and-text-confirmation#post-4050 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:57:52 +0000 Carl Hancock 4050@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The other post didn't have to do with WordPress permalink settings, it had to do with custom permalink settings that were done outside of WordPress using scripting.</p> <p>Changing your permalink structure shouldn't impact Gravity Forms other than you may have to update the link used for the redirect for that form.</p> <p>If the link works if you go straight to it, it should work from within Gravity Forms. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-permalink-structure-breaks-redirects-and-text-confirmation#post-4046 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:35:21 +0000 shepting 4046@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Any suggestions on solving this problem? This isn't a plugin issue but with Wordpress itself, and I can consistently reproduce the issue. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-permalink-structure-breaks-redirects-and-text-confirmation#post-4045 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:05:48 +0000 shepting 4045@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Installed Gravity Forms, love it. Use a redirect to a pdf file to allow visitors to download a file after filling in some information.</p> <p>Later, I changed my Permalink settings in Wordpress from Default to Custom with <code><br /> /%category%/%postname%/</code> as the formatting choice.</p> <p>Now, the redirect from Gravity Forms does not work.</p> <p>This topic was similar, but didn't propose a workaround and was using IIS.<br /> <a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/no-confirmation-being-displayed-and-no-mail-notification-or-entry-being-sent" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/no-confirmation-being-displayed-and-no-mail-notification-or-entry-being-sent</a> </p>