Title: Changing Permalinks, redirection issues :( Last modified: March 7, 2019 --- # Changing Permalinks, redirection issues :( * Resolved [jwds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwds/) * (@jwds) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalinks-redirection-issues/) * 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/](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? * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fchanging-permalinks-redirection-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Sofa Đình Tuyến](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofadinhtuyen/) * (@sofadinhtuyen) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalinks-redirection-issues/#post-11284150) * i dont understand what you say. Can you show some example for me? Old url and new url has change? * [Minerva Infotech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minervainfotech/) * (@minervainfotech) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalinks-redirection-issues/#post-11284296) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwds/) * (@jwds) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalinks-redirection-issues/#post-11341450) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwds/) * (@jwds) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalinks-redirection-issues/#post-11341547) * 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](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’](http://example.com’);); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’[http://example.com’](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. 🙂 Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Changing Permalinks, redirection issues :(’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [jwds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwds/) * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-permalinks-redirection-issues/#post-11341547) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics