4.5 causes infinite redirect on static front page

  • Since updating to 4.5 I am stuck with an infinite redirect on the static front page of my site.

    It is similar to what is described in this thread https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/infinite-redirect-problem-wp45-2014-theme-17?replies=6#post-8291825 but unfortunately the remedy there (making sure site and wordpress URL are all lowercase) did not apply in my case as they were already all lowercase.

    Site has a number of static pages, with one of them (“home”) set to be the root and another (“blog”) set to be the page for posts.

    WordPress is installed in a subdirectory, and configured to answer on root with:
    siteurl: https://www.stg.domain.com/
    wordpressurl: https://www.stg.domain.com/anotherdir/

    As described in the other thread, if I revert the settings->reading “your front page displays” to either “your latest posts” or “a static page” with “front page” setting set to “–select–” then the redirect loop is fixed, and it displays the latests posts page.

    If I set “front page” to the intended “home”, or any other static page, then the redirect loop persists. Viewing it in chrome inspector, it is just reloading the root URL over and over again. It is not a case of it sending to some other domain or page with a redirect_to param and then sending back in a loop.

    No other pages are affected. I can navigate directly to static page permalinks and they load fine. The panel loads fine. Login works fine.

    Appreciate any help as this is blocking me from updating to 4.5, and I would like to do so to have all the latest security and bug fixes.

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  • Hi Andrew
    thanks for your reply. I update wordpress and change the theme and disable all plugins but problem persist, finally I define these in config.php and problem was solved
    define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://example.com’);

    Thanks Andrew! That’s the ticket!!

    For any rookie WordPressers, make sure you go to your dashboard first and check which theme you’re using, then search that theme name in your file manager, then edit the function.php!

    Because it WON’T work if you’re trying to patch the WRONG theme! Bahahaha Oh dear, the weekend is close, isn’t it? I’m sure it is!

    Thanks again, Andrew!! ;D

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