Textpattern Support Forum

The Textpattern release you are using, v4.0.5, is very old. It has numerous widely known severe security issues, and is vulnerable to various attacks. Some of these vulnerabilities give an attacker a complete access to the target server. All of these known issues have been since then fixed in later updates. Please, consider updating as soon as possible to keep your site, server and school safe from threats.

Anyways, about what your were actually asking. Textpattern itself doesn’t do any redirects. None, never. There is some sort of misconfiguration or collision on the server. Hard to say what causes it, but the server seems to try to redirect to .local when any existing directory (i.e. not a file) is accessed. Accessing any file or missing file, will work correctly, e.g. /textpattern/index.php will bring up the admin-side interface.