Title: Infinite Loop – HELP!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Infinite Loop – HELP!

 *  Resolved [natalieosborne@wonderbuild.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natalieosbornewonderbuildcom/)
 * (@natalieosbornewonderbuildcom)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-loop-help/)
 * Yikes. I accidentally created an infinite loop with a global asterisk field for
   the entire domain to forward to the index.php. Which meant I couldn’t access 
   the WP Admin tool – it kept forwarding to the root index.php. I deleted the 301
   simple redirect plugin folder via FTP, which solved the problem. But when I went
   to re-install the 301 simple redirect plugin, the infinite loop returned.
 * How can I wipe out the simple 301 redirects and start over completely?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/)

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 *  [Ash Durham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashdurham/)
 * (@ashdurham)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-loop-help/#post-4234730)
 * Hi Natalie,
 * Sorry, i’m not the developer for this plugin (sorry for fielding this Scott) 
   but I was just reading through the support tickets and stumbled over your post.
 * You can simply add `update_option('301_redirects', '');` to your functions.php
   file, save it, load a page in your admin, then remove the line and save again.
   Activate the plugin and you’ll have a blank 301 list.
 * Hope that helps (and apologies again for answering your forum posts Scott).
 *  Thread Starter [natalieosborne@wonderbuild.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natalieosbornewonderbuildcom/)
 * (@natalieosbornewonderbuildcom)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-loop-help/#post-4234766)
 * Yes! That worked! Thank you Thank you thank you!
 *  [Ash Durham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashdurham/)
 * (@ashdurham)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-loop-help/#post-4234774)
 * Glad to hear it helped Natalie. If you have a lot to put back in, I have written
   a support plugin for this plugin to enable bulk upload via CSV: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects-addon-bulk-uploader/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects-addon-bulk-uploader/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Scott Nelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottnelle/)
 * (@scottnelle)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-loop-help/#post-4234844)
 * Thanks for fielding this for me, Ash! Any and all community help is welcome. 
   🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Scott Nelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottnelle/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-loop-help/#post-4234844)
 * Status: resolved