Too many redirects

  • Until 2 days ago updating anything (WP, themes, plugins) always failed. Plus, my usual Permalinks setting – Day and name – resulted in too many redirects and the pages fail to display. Plus, UpdraftPlus backups failed. Then, all by itself, the WP updated from 4.7.6 to 4.7.8. Now, plugins update successfully, and UpdraftPlus succeeds with backups. However, I still have the Permalinks problem. Only Default works; other Permalinks options cause the redirects problem.

    WP keeps nagging me to update to 4.9.1, so I did that but still have the redirects problem.

    I have spent an enormous amount of time trying to figure this out – disabling themes and plugins, checking debug logs, etc. I would sure like to get the Permalinks problem resolved. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    PHP version 5.3.6
    MySQL Client API version 5.1.55
    WordPress version 4.9.1
    WordPress Database version 38590

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I still have the Permalinks problem. Only Default works; other Permalinks options cause the redirects problem.

    If the default works, then try reading Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure again. If clearing your Permalinks does not alleviate the issue, this could be attributed to anything from a web server configuration to a bad WordPress install.

    If too many redirect issue still persists, try deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by t-p.
    Thread Starter elcoyotesurvives

    (@elcoyotesurvives)

    I tried those. Still doesn’t work. Probably not a bad WP install because it wasn’t working in 4.7.6, 4.7.8, and now 4.9.1. I only have one plugin going until I solve this, and deactivating it did not help. If it’s a web server configuration, I have no idea what to do about it; Yahoo Small Business is my host. It doesn’t let me use a .htaccess file.

    I have no idea how to find the FollowSymLinks option or FileInfo directives.

    The messages I get in the browser:

    Firefox:
    The page isn’t redirecting properly
    Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
    This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

    Chrome:
    This page isn’t working
    elcoyotesurvives.net redirected you too many times.
    Try clearing your cookies.
    ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

    Clearing Cookies doesn’t help.

    Thread Starter elcoyotesurvives

    (@elcoyotesurvives)

    I was finally able to get Permalinks working on my blog. I just selected Custom Structure and added /index.php to the front -> /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ . Am I right in that this is because I don’t/can’t have a .htaccess file, mod_rewrite, etc? (Without inserting “/index.php I get too many redirects.) It still puzzles me, though, why the Day and name Permalinks structure was working prior to spring of last year, then stopped working.

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