WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'? en Thu, 23 May 2013 18:52:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 macmanx on "Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop#post-1006692 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:11:54 +0000 macmanx 1006692@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We actually strip out the www. for your convenience.

www is an old protocol from back when everything was under separate server hardware. www (www.example.com) was the web server, mail (mail.example.com) was the mail server, ftp (ftp.example.com) was the FTP server, print (print.example.com) was the print server, etc.

These days, everything is run under the web server, making www. redundant and a waste of four characters.

]]> vvadrienne on "Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop#post-1006399 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:27:01 +0000 vvadrienne 1006399@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes the domain is working fine now and I was able to select. Thank you! Any idea why it drops the www. ?

]]> macmanx on "Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop#post-1006355 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:07:51 +0000 macmanx 1006355@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The domain is definitely working fine now. Try setting it as primary via Store -> Domains in your Dashboard.

The issue was probably related to GoDaddy's outage yesterday.

]]> vvadrienne on "Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop#post-1006318 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:56:28 +0000 vvadrienne 1006318@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just checked again with my registrar (GoDaddy) and it says forwarding has been turned off.

The nameservers are:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

What else can I check? I still get the error.

]]> macmanx on "Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop#post-1004592 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:39:43 +0000 macmanx 1004592@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ yellemag.com should be working fine. Are you also forwarding it through your registrar? If so, make sure that you have turned forwarding off.

]]> vvadrienne on "Why do I receive error: 'This website has a redirect loop'?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-receive-error-this-website-has-a-redirect-loop#post-1003499 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:36:43 +0000 vvadrienne 1003499@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have previously registered a domain with GoDaddy and upgraded my WordPress.com site http://www.yellemag.wordpress.com with Domain Mapping to add this domain. When I type http://www.yellemag.com into my browser, it redirects me to http://www.yellemag.wordpress.com. In my Domain Settings, the primary url is indeed http://www.yellemag.wordpress.com. I know it should be http://www.yellemag.com, but when I select this and try visiting the site (www.yellemag.com), it says 'this website has a redirect loop.' I don't know why typing http://www.yellemag.com redirects to the wordpress site in the first place if I don't have it selected as my primary url. I also don't know why it simply takes you to the wordpress site. I think this has to do with nameservers?

Also, a separate question: If I wanted to deactivate the domain mapping for the wordpress.com site in order to free up the domain for use on a different site, how would I do that?

Thanks
Meredith
Blog url: http://yellemag.wordpress.com/

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