Custom pages redirect to index

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Never had this happen to me... If everything's good on the database side, did you change anything in the page.php and pageview.php files?
If the custom pages/view/page doesn't work, you can also create pages anyway by adding .php files following the same scheme HoF uses (controller in main folder, view in the view folder, same functions in both files, index() function to show the page, construct on the controller, create the $document = $this->document and add a title to it in the view). You can follow for example what myadopts.php and myadoptsview.php look like