[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13102: Infinite Redirects Problem

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#13102: Infinite Redirects Problem
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 Reporter:  dtrimble      |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  Unassigned 
Component:  Canonical     |     Version:             
 Severity:  blocker       |    Keywords:             
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 One of my sites, http://cgblog.org went live yesterday after a massive re-
 build from the ground up.  The site was working fine all through the
 night, but now access to one area of the site in particular
 (Community/Forums from our menu bar) is generating a Too Many Redirects
 error, and won't come up.  Some of my readers are telling me they can get
 to it, however, so it seems inconsistent.

 A couple things to note:

 1.  We used to have the site at www.cgblog.org, but for efficiency I've
 opted to drop the www. on the new site, and have .htaccess configured to
 redirect accordingly:

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.cgblog.org$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cgblog.org/$1 [R=301]


 2.  We also used to use long-form URLs for all of our blog posts.  The
 form of /year/month/date/post-title/.  Again for efficiency, we've opted
 to now use just the WordPress page ID going forward.  All of the old posts
 are still in the database, so we have years worth of people linking to the
 old URLs.


 Is this something I'm doing wrong with our site, or is this a problem with
 WP's handling of canonical URLs?  I haven't a clue what the problem is let
 alone how to fix, so I'd greatly prefer any help.  A core part of our blog
 is down in the mean time as long as folks keep getting this pesky redirect
 error.

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