I have a weird issue with my permalinks in wordpress hosted on AWS.
When I navigate to the first post located at http://civicasoft.com/news/
In my browser it shows a nice permalink for the first post of: http://civicasoft.com/granicus-acquisition/
But when I copy and paste the url from my browser it gives me this ugly one: http://civicasoft.com/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCgranicus-acquisition/
Any ideas what is going on? Everything looks fine from the admin.. If I type in the nice looking url it says page not found.. I have to paste in the ugly one.
I am at my wits end. I have never had these issues with a wordpress install before.
######BEGIN SwiftSecurity######
######END SwiftSecurity######
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Hey I figured out what the issue was. It turns out my client had copied the title of the press release from a PDF and that brought weird character encoding into Wordpress for some reason. I figured this out after numerous trial and error attempts including multiple attempts recreating the post.