Page somehow took over id = 27 (404 Page Not Found)

[adrian]

Ok, here is a very weird one.

Just had an admin user change the name of a page (direct child of Home) to "Contribute" from something else. Not sure that the new name is relevant. Somehow this page then took an ID of 27 which is the ID of the 404 Page Not Found page. It was set to hidden and the template was changed to basic-page. The page can't be viewed by non-superusers. As a superuser, I can't delete it, or even move it's position in the page tree (it moves, but the change doesn't stick).

The person thinks they were using the main admin, but I do have the Admin Bar installed, so I wonder if this might be involved.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

By the way - I managed to clean things up via PHPMyAdmin to change the ID of the page and everything is working fine again, but it does seem like there might be a bug somewhere.

Edited July 16, 2013 by adrian

[ryan]

It sounds to me like that person unintentionally edited and renamed the 404 page. The safest bet would be to just assume that is your 404 page and change the title back to "404 not found" and then lock it. But it sounds like you already found a solution there. 

[adrian]

Thanks Ryan, but the 404 page is/was not viewable by the user, so I don't see how they could have changed it.

The page they edited the name of also disappeared from the page tree and all the content was actually in the page with ID of 27, including all the uploaded images - which actually even ended up in assets/files/27. I am baffled how that could happen, but it did