Upgrade to 3.0 Causes “Too Many Redirects” Error – Blog Broken

Try re-setting your permalinks to the default (ugly) setting and removing (or renaming) your .htaccess file.

I’m using a custom link structure (under Permalink Setting) and don’t want to make any changes. I’ve also got Optional ‘category base’ set-up and don’t want to monkey with it.

Deleting .htaccess causes an older version of my un-styled pages to load… so it does something to end the loop… but creates another problem. (My site still won’t load).

Anyone? Please, please, please…

I can downgrade to 2.9.2 and it works fine.

Something somewhere has broken my /blog/ page.

I can’t load https://www.idea-sandbox.com/blog/

As I mentioned. Deteting .htaccess does stop the loop problem, but then my site doesn’t load the right pages, style sheet, etc…

As esmi said, try resetting your permalinks, save, test site in browser, then set it back the way it was.

Oops. Looks like you fixed it. ??

If you just hit save without making changes in permalinks it will rewrite the htaccess settings for permalinks. If there is something different in WP3 on how it handles it, I image it could fix it (I dont know if there is anything different, I havent messed with WP3 yet, I suspect its the same)

Post your permalinks settings and blog directory/url settings. Also the htaccess wordpress settings. Someone might see whats wrong.

Hi

My site either hangs, takes ages to load or gives “too many redirect” error messages in the browser. I’ve pasted my .htaccess file below.

Tried deleting the .htaccess file and it seems to fix the problem and the home page loads quickly but every other link on the site is then broken

https://www.WhatsinWapping.co.uk

My permalink structure in WordPress is currently set to /%postname%/

Would really appreciate any help or ideas of what to do to try and fix this?

Many thanks

‘# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php’

vickieflores,

you need to add an extension to your permalink structure.

Try /%postname%.html

The problem is /%postname%/ will confuse WP because it will not know if it is supposed to display a category, page, tag, or post. BTW it’s also not recommended to use /%postname%.html because it will become slow if you have a lot of posts

Thanks Matt, had no idea and yes my site is becoming slower and slower so this would help explain it.

Want to try and get it right this time so going to hold off any more changes until I know what a good structure would be. I’m keen to keep the postname as part of the structure but happy to do anything that will help speed it up so really grateful if you have any suggestions.
https://www.WhatsinWapping.co.uk

Many thanks

BTW Just added W3 Total Cache plugin which has really helped but know this is only patching up the real problems so very keen to get them sorted.