Homepage instantly redirects to product page - not sure why

For some reason, when I click the 'home' link, which is pointed at the index of my domain, it redirects to:

/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=312

I've never had this happen before.

I checked the access_log and error_log on my server, but there is nothing there.

Is there a configuration setting in the admin where I could somehow 'disabled' the home page?

Not sure if this has any bearing, but I wanted to see what the php output of index.php was from the shell. This is what I got:

-bash-3.00$ php -e index.php 
Status: 302
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9
Set-Cookie: zenid=5a135bc5bd9c4463d34bd18825fb2490; path=/; domain=(my ip hidden)
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Location: http://(my ip hidden)/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=312&zenid=5a135bc5bd9c4463d34bd18825fb2490

Could be php 4.3.9 ... could be old code ...

It is hard to see anything without access to the site ...

Ajeh:

Could be php 4.3.9 ... could be old code ...

It is hard to see anything without access to the site ...

Ajeh:

I'll PM it to you. (for privacy reasons)

Is products_id 312 sitting in the Top Level directory?

Categories hold Products or Categories but not both ...

It looks like either this is in the Top Level Category and Linked to the Electronics Category or you have something wrong with your database table products_to_categories and should search this table in phpMyAdmin to see what categories_id come up for products_id = 312

Ajeh:

Is products_id 312 sitting in the Top Level directory?

Categories hold Products or Categories but not both ...

It looks like either this is in the Top Level Category and Linked to the Electronics Category or you have something wrong with your database table products_to_categories and should search this table in phpMyAdmin to see what categories_id come up for products_id = 312

Fantastic! That was it.

I'm embarrassed - such an 'elementary' problem and solution. I'm usually more careful with my categories so I've never had this happen.

Thank you!

No problem Watson ... glad to have helped you solve the case of the mystery redirect ... :smartalec:

NOTE: The cause of this was hitting categories_id 0 (top level) with only 1 product and the Skip Product Listing on Categories with <= 1 product ...