.htaccess – Too many redirects

.htaccess

I am getting a "too many redirects" error from the following two .htaccess files.

.htaccess on domain 1

Redirect 301 / http://www.domain2.com/

.htaccess on domain 2

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /forum/ [L,R]

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ /forum/

# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite1\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite2\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Anyone know the reason for the too many redirects error?

Best Answer

Does the directory "/forum/" exist on your site in domain2? If not, then following RewriteCond (Rewrite conditions) & RewriteRule will always result in redirecting to /forum/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /forum/ [L,R]

That would result in an infinite redirect loop resulting in a too many redirects error.

From your additional comments you say that the following three lines of code cause the redirect loop:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite1\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite2\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

By any chance is "badsite1.com" or "badsite2.com" also a part of your domain name? For example if the literal "badsite1.com" is "fred.com" and your domain is "myfred.com" then this condition will match your site's requests.

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