Changing Permalinks, redirection issues :(

  • Resolved jwds

    (@jwds)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    Forgive my ignorance here… 🙁

    I recently inherited a site that was composed via ‘Plain’ permalinks. I stupidly thought I could just change the format to ‘Post Name’ and all would be well. When I tried to access the website via Chrome and IE, I got an error stating too many redirects and nothing would load. I could still access the anything on the wp end of things, so I knew it wasn’t a domain issue. I set the permalinks back to ‘Plain’ and all is right with the world. Which brings me to this, I have done the research and figured out ways to change the pages via redirection, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what URL to use for the home page / landing page (alanturnermusic.com) In the URL list I generated, it’s just http://alanturnermusic.com/ So, that being said, I don’t know what to enter as the Source URL and the Target URL. Thoughts?

    Or is there another reason this is breaking that I haven’t been able to locate yet?

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  • Sofa Đình Tuyến

    (@sofadinhtuyen)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    i dont understand what you say. Can you show some example for me? Old url and new url has change?

    Minerva Infotech

    (@minervainfotech)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi jwds,

    Please kindly try disabling all your plugins and then change permalink settings. If it will not work then it’s a htaccess issue. It could be HTTPS issue also which is leading too many redirections.

    Thread Starter jwds

    (@jwds)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you all for your notes. I reached out in other arenas to and everyone said the same thing pretty much, so I contacted my hosting provider and they do support “pretty” permalinks and they were able to duplicate my problem, but said the .htaccess and all were good, so to try the plugins like you suggested. I have tried deactivating each one individually and resetting, but nothing works. I even shut them all off after reading a tutorial that said two may cause the problem. Still not working. I changed the theme, still broken. So, after walking away from the frustration for a bit, today I thought I’d look into it again. I discovered something else today, that might be of help to diagnose the problem.

    Today, after I changed the permalinks to “Post Name”, I could not access the site by typing in alanturnermusic.com to the URL bar. I got the same error message…

    This page isn’t working
    alanturnermusic.com redirected you too many times.
    Try clearing your cookies.
    ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

    However, I could access it if I went to a different page instead. If I typed in alanturnermusic.com/tour-dates/ It took me right to the tour page and everything displayed properly. I clicked through several pages and everything was perfect, the link structure was what I wanted, etc. Then I clicked the logo that will take me back to the home page of alanturnermusic.com and it crashed with the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.

    I have even tried it with other browsers and still the same thing.

    Leave it to me to have the issue that no one can solve. 🙁

    Any thoughts?

    Thread Starter jwds

    (@jwds)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Found the Solution with more research given the new information I discovered. It was a very simple fix….

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50580056/wordpress-too-many-redirects-home-page

    Open Wp-config.php file in your root directory and add
    define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’);
    Replace example .com with your site url an If you still can not access your site, then try to add your domain with www prefix.

    It works perfect now. 🙂

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