Freddy Helsen

Some feedback on this topic.

What I did: because of several tests and install/remove a lot of plugins (my first WP website…), I decided it would be much better to restart from a clean fresh installation. So the site and database were completely deleted and I started all over again.
Guess what… no more problems with the amount of redirects on the htaccess file. Actually, there are about 500 redirects. Yes, on the same xampp server. So it was surely not the server who caused the problem. What it was? I don’t know. Some bad coding in htaccess I presume. But I wanted to thank the people who helped me here and set me thinking.. Meanwhile, the site is up and running on a remote server.

ok for closing this topic.

Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for your reply. This helps. Didn’t noticed that beacon. I was looking for a text link.

My website is on php 7.3 and uses the Yoast plugin. Works.

Thank you very much bcworkz. I even didn’t knew there was a plugin for that. “conflicting rules sending a request into circles”, have to examine that, good question.
I am actually working on the fifth version of my site (wordpress), knowing that there are a considerable amount of backlinks and bookmarks to the pages of the third and actual fourth live version of the site (actually Joomla). So I have to redirect all of these pages/links from both versions to the new url’s. I’ve always been working with Joomla, but had reasons to switch to WordPress. Felt good and natural from the beginning.. think I won’t go back.
I will see tomorrow for both eventually conflicting rules and plugins. Thanks again!