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    • Gotmoxie
      Gotmoxie last edited by

      Saturday I waas doing some correcting of some duplicate titles, including nofollowing tags, etc. (my main problem was duplicate titles due to tags and categories being indexed).

      Now this morning I see that one of my pages refuses to load, citing a 301 redirect loop.

      http://www.incredibleinfant.com/feeding/switching-baby-formula/

      Originally, the page was posted under the wrong category.

      http://www.incredibleinfant.com/uncategorized/switching-baby-formula

      I resaved it under the correct category (feeding) and now it won't load.

      Can someone help me figure out how to correct this mess?

      Thanks so much

      Heather

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      • Gotmoxie
        Gotmoxie @donford last edited by

        thank you, I will look there.  Thanks for getting back to me and pointing me in a new direction.  Appreciate it!

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        • donford
          donford last edited by

          Hi Heather,

          Yes this is what I was looking for.

          Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.

          Generally the Wordpress core systems work great, its other modules that tend to cause issues. I don't see a specific problem with the htacess, did you install any other redirecting scripts like canonical redirects?

          It sounds like this maybe a somewhat common issue and you may find quicker answers to this sort of technical issue directly on the Wordpress forums. I've done some basic things with WP before, but I have not digested it to the degree you would expect to find on the official forums.

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          • Gotmoxie
            Gotmoxie last edited by

            Is this what you need?

            BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache

            <ifmodule mod_deflate.c=""><ifmodule mod_setenvif.c="">BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
                    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
                    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
                    BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html</ifmodule>
                <ifmodule mod_headers.c="">Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary</ifmodule>
                <ifmodule mod_filter.c="">AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/x-javascript text/x-component text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon</ifmodule></ifmodule>
            <filesmatch ".(css|js|htc|css|js|htc)$"="">FileETag None
                <ifmodule mod_headers.c="">Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"</ifmodule></filesmatch>
            <filesmatch ".(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$"="">FileETag None
                <ifmodule mod_headers.c="">Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"</ifmodule></filesmatch>
            <filesmatch ".(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip|asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$"="">FileETag None
                <ifmodule mod_headers.c="">Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"</ifmodule></filesmatch>

            END W3TC Browser Cache

            BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core

            <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
                RewriteBase /
                RewriteRule ^(./)?w3tc_rewrite_test$ $1?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 [L]
                RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
                RewriteRule .
            - [E=W3TC_ENC:gzip]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
                RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
                RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.incredibleinfant.com
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$ [OR]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (sitemap(index)?.xml(.gz)?|[a-z0-9-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml(.gz)?) [NC]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|/feed/|wp-.*.php|index.php) [NC,OR]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php) [NC]
                RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp-postpass|wordpress
            [a-f0-9]+|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]
                RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(W3\ Total\ Cache/0.9.2.4) [NC]
                RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f
                RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" [L]</ifmodule>

            END W3TC Page Cache core

            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

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            • donford
              donford last edited by

              Hi Heather, can you post your HTACCESS info that pertains to this redirect?

              You may simply have an ambiguous statement in there.

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