Redirects timing out

[Joshua Clinard]

Some of my redirects aren't working. Here is an example of one. I haven't had this problem before, and I have used redirects on other sites.

Redirect permanent /disneyanimated.html http://www.waltdisneyresource.net/disneyanimated.html

In Firefox I get the following message:

Redirection limit for the URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page.

In IE, the page just keeps trying to load. It times out.

Anyone have a clue??

[Spathiphyllum]

No problems here using Mozilla or MSIE no matter how I configure my proxy or browser UA or javascripting filters. Can't seem to screw things up to reproduce your error... doesn't that beat all? Even have URL redirection enabled. Have you fixed this already?

One other consideration that occassionally causes problems is the security setting of Certificate Revocation Lists in your browser. I can't say that I would implicate this because redirection doesn't seem quite right; but, sometimes requests are confirmed through Certificate servers in the background that are temporarily offline. The denied confirmation response can report problems of the downed certificate server rather than your site as the browser detects and reports the unavailability of the Cert Server. Or the request to the Cert Server may timeout resulting in a redirect or attempted redirect by your browser and subsequent post by the UA of some default error page. Like I said, this doesn't really sound like your problem but sometimes the security settings can cause some quirky behavior.

[Ron]

Sounds like a circular redirection (i.e. endless loop) kind of error to me...though that link also seems to be working for me.

Where are you trying to redirect from? (full URI)

[Joshua Clinard]

I disabled the redirection totally, because even the actual URL would not load with the redirection enabled.

I am trying to redirect from my main domain, joshuasplace.net, to waltdisneyresource.net, which is a multi-hosted domain. And no, I was not able to fix it.

[Spathiphyllum]

Originally posted by Joshua Clinard
I am trying to redirect from my main domain, joshuasplace.net, to waltdisneyresource.net, which is a multi-hosted domain. And no, I was not able to fix it.

Are you using mod_rewrite or .htaccess redirect to accomplish this? I found a link that might be useful:

Apache Redirect from webmasterworld.

# To enable Apache modrewrite
RewriteEngine on
# Set the rule
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.tld/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]

# This will redirect all to the equivalent on the new domain,
# providing you keep the same directory structure.
# The R=301 flag will ensure that the moved permanently 
# header is returned to the caller, and the
# QSA (Query String Append) flag will rewrite your URI
# and append the original QUERY_STRING once rewritten.

So you would try:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.waltdisneyresource.net/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]

Any access to your current site will get rewritten as a new request as the .* collector gets stored and reassigned to the $1 variable. Further, an HTTPD header is returned to the requesting UA to inform it that a 301 response was appropriate.

You might need to tweak to suit your site's idiosyncracies.

[Joshua Clinard]

I gave up, and used meta redirects. Not perfect, but it will do.