Hi @crosfield
As I explained in my related posts, these solutions are from other users, and I am thankful to them because they shared with me.
As the last sentence,
May I ask, would you need hosted journals link if you will not create a new journal?
Would you need Site settings if no Journal Site will be displayed (since you have single journal)?
None of other links are daily required functions, and might be accomplished by temporarily disabling htaccess directives. We have only one journal on our hands.
But if there are someone that is highly skilled on apache htaccess directives, I would be pleased if shares his/her solution with us.
Regards,