redirect loop issue

[Uilmuteiz]

Hi everyone,

I've been using CPanel for a while now and everything worked out fine until a few weeks ago.

I tried redirecting a domain to a wordpress directory and I got a redirect loop.

So far I tried to redirect to another folder and I got the same problem.
Tried both permanent and temporary redirect, failed.
I tried uploading a .htaccess file to my root directory and it failed as well.

I tried redirecting to another site (a yuku board site) and it worked like a charm.

I'm somewhat at a loss right now and I would appreciate any help (or general pointing in the right direction.)

I've seen some people with similar issues, but they haven't found a sure to that problem either.

It's as if the redirect tool from Cpanel and the config file from the apache server didn't allow any redirections to a subfolder...

And yet on another web site I have on the very same server, the exact thing I want to accomplish here works just fine. So there must be something I'm doing wrong.

Thank you for any input.

EDIT: just in case this helps, i'm using cPanel Version 11.24.4

[Infopro]

Is there an .htaccess in the wordpress directory?

[Uilmuteiz]

the answer is no

I believe it would make sense since that would most likely create a loop

as in "go there" and once you've reached your destination you find another "go there" which is pretty much exactly the same destination you're in at the moment.

Now I could see a dog running around after his own tail.

[xisn]

I see this issue on a few of my servers as well, it seems the issue is in the .htaccess file creation:

it looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.org$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.org$
RewriteRule ^.*?$ "http\:\/\/domain\.org\/subdir" [R=301,L]

instead of this: (Notice the red below)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.org$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.org$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/domain\.org\/subdir" [R=301,L]

[spent]

Thanks XISN, that solved my issue!! Someone should sticky this post as it seems there are many people with this problem

[cPanelDavidG]

Our developers are currently working on this issue (Internal Case 23698).

Thanks for bringing this to our attention via forums and tickets.