Quote Originally Posted by Bruce1952 View Post
It should be working now and it had to do with someone that worked on the site that changed the htaccess file causing the problem with viewing the site.

As I have said before that people that have worked on the site have done a few strange things and left files behind which I am slowly cleaning up when I find the issues.
Well, now that you have made the dev site visible to the public, Google will be happy to crawl it and totally screw up your SEO as it starts serving results pointing to the dev site instead of the live site...
I have been cleaning up a similar mess created by another developer that didn't know to hide the dev site for 6 months, as Google is slow to drop stuff no matter how hard you try to tell them to.
So what seems strange to you has a reason when implemented by someone who has been doing this for a long time.