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How do I fix a 301 Redirect Loop?
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Saturday I waas doing some correcting of some duplicate titles, including nofollowing tags, etc. (my main problem was duplicate titles due to tags and categories being indexed).
Now this morning I see that one of my pages refuses to load, citing a 301 redirect loop.
http://www.incredibleinfant.com/feeding/switching-baby-formula/
Originally, the page was posted under the wrong category.
http://www.incredibleinfant.com/uncategorized/switching-baby-formula
I resaved it under the correct category (feeding) and now it won't load.
Can someone help me figure out how to correct this mess?
Thanks so much
Heather
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thank you, I will look there. Thanks for getting back to me and pointing me in a new direction. Appreciate it!
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Hi Heather,
Yes this is what I was looking for.
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
Generally the Wordpress core systems work great, its other modules that tend to cause issues. I don't see a specific problem with the htacess, did you install any other redirecting scripts like canonical redirects?
It sounds like this maybe a somewhat common issue and you may find quicker answers to this sort of technical issue directly on the Wordpress forums. I've done some basic things with WP before, but I have not digested it to the degree you would expect to find on the official forums.
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Is this what you need?
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RewriteRule . - [E=W3TC_ENC:gzip]
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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp-postpass|wordpress[a-f0-9]+|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(W3\ Total\ Cache/0.9.2.4) [NC]
RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f
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BEGIN WordPress
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
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Hi Heather, can you post your HTACCESS info that pertains to this redirect?
You may simply have an ambiguous statement in there.
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