I've just updated to 2.9.1 for a site, and found that the googlebot returns a 404 page not found for the index of my site. The odd thing is, when I test the other pages in my site, it finds all of them just fine. I even tried different variations of the same page to see what a googlebot would return:
http://www.mysite.com = 404 not found with googlebot
http://www.mysite.com/index.php = 404 not found with googlebot
http://www.mysite.com/home = success, no problems
I don't know what is causing the googlebot to return the error on the root site. I didn't have this issue with 2.8.3, so I am wondering if it's an .htaccess issue or something else within the index.php file itself that would cause this to happen with the new install? This is a big problem for my site not being indexed by google.
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