The page isn't redirecting properly

  • Resolved rasamalai

    (@rasamalai)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    After updating to 4.5 I keep getting this message when trying to access my homepage:

    Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    I came across a post that said to set all characters in the URL to lowercase, which I did, but that didn’t fix it.

    And also tried adding

    define('WP_HOME', 'https://www.yourDomain.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://www.yourDomain.com');

    as suggested here and here

    But that also didn’t fix it. It’s only the homepage that can’t be reached, other pages can be.

    Can somebody please help me?

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  • Both of those setting should be the same URL. The only difference is maybe if you installed wordpress in a sub-directory.

    Heres a reasonably straight forward help: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress/wordpress-changing-the-site-url-and-home-settings

    Thread Starter rasamalai

    (@rasamalai)

    Thank you, I will check it out now, I’ve edited the first post to avoid confusion (sorry about that!) I did the same URL on both.

    Thread Starter rasamalai

    (@rasamalai)

    So, what I did (and thought I had explained I had done) is what the post in inmotion says to do.

    Even when adding

    define('WP_HOME','https://artisanofwhimsy.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://artisanofwhimsy.com');

    to my wp-config.php the page is still not redirecting properly.

    Thread Starter rasamalai

    (@rasamalai)

    I can’t edit the above post, the link in “page” should be https://artisanofwhimsy.com

    Since it seems that subpages work fine (like https://artisanofwhimsy.com/about/) and the links that are on there work fine (except for home, of course), I don’t think it’s related to the siteurl setting.

    Would it be possible for you to remove the .htaccess file (make a backup first) and let WordPress re-generate one (by hitting the “Save Changes” button on the Permalinks settings page of the WordPress admin)?

    Thread Starter rasamalai

    (@rasamalai)

    You’re a genius! That did it! ?? Thank you very much! ^_^

    I had the exact same error message as you but for a different reason. I’m posting this to help others who stumble across this solution.

    I moved a site to a new server by importing the database and copying over the entire program folder.

    The problem occurred because the server had a redirect of yourdomain.com to https://www.yourdomain.com and the wp general settings wanted it to be yourdomain.com (or vice versa not sure now). I could not get to the wp dashboard, so I changed the value of those “options” in the database.

    I made them both want to be yourdomain.com and everybody’s happy.

    Good luck, have fun, hope this helps!

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