Title: Created redirect loop. Help!
Last modified: October 30, 2018

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# Created redirect loop. Help!

 *  Resolved [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronatfpc/)
 * (@aaronatfpc)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-redirect-loop-help/)
 * Some time ago, I made a small URL change from
    [https://filterproducts.com/product-category/lubricant/](https://filterproducts.com/product-category/lubricant/)
   to [https://filterproducts.com/product-category/lubricants/](https://filterproducts.com/product-category/lubricants/)
   for purposes of consistency or some such thing. Today I noticed I was getting
   404s to the old address and its children, so I decided to do a redirect of the
   form [url]/lubricant.* Bad idea! Going to the correct current page now forms 
   a redirect loop, I think, and Chrome gives a “This page isn’t working – filterproducts.
   com redirected you too many times.” error. Compounding the issue, the Redirection
   plugin back end now doesn’t work. It won’t list the redirects so I can fix them,
   and gives a “Something went wrong 🙁 – Sorry, you are not allowed to do that.(
   rest_forbidden)” error. Turning off the Redirection plugin resolves the issue
   and causes the page in question to display again, but I there are other places
   on the site where I need the plugin operational.
 * Please respond promptly. While I’m waiting, I’m going to see if I can find a 
   way to manually find and edit the redirect list in my server files to remove 
   my offending redirect.
 * Also, please consider including a check for this kind of error in a future plugin
   update.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronatfpc/).
      Reason: clarification
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcreated-redirect-loop-help%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-redirect-loop-help/#post-10836963)
 * I don’t think the loop is connected to Redirection not working. That message 
   indicates you are running a plugin that is blocking your REST API. You will need
   to allow access to the REST API and can then edit the redirect causing a loop.
 *  Thread Starter [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronatfpc/)
 * (@aaronatfpc)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-redirect-loop-help/#post-10838921)
 * Odd. I reached into my database and deleted the row with the offending redirect,
   then the page in question worked fine. I initially got the Redirection plugin
   working again by switching from “Default /wp-json/” to “Form request”, but I 
   switched back today with no ill effects. If the redirect loop wasn’t breaking
   the plugin, the only other major change I can think of that could have done it
   was a WooCommerce update. But I don’t know why that would do that.

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 * Last reply from: [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronatfpc/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-redirect-loop-help/#post-10838921)
 * Status: resolved