Endless Redirect

Which version of 2.3? What is the URL of your blog?

URL of my blog is my username: chaoticmortalcom. AKA chaoticmortal.com.

Please help. I'll be switching to 2.2 in thirty minutes.

And it's 2.3 RC1.

Does this have anything to do with permalink?

If it does, it's chaoticmortal.com/index.php/YEAR/MO/DA/samplepost/. More info? I'll give. Anything to fix.

Can you e-mail your FTP user/pass to me? I'd like to try to debug this issue.

mark.wordpress -AT- txfx.net

Downgrading to 2.2 isn't going to work, FYI... but I can get 2.3 working for you -- I just want to figure out why you're having the problem first.

Oops. Hehehe...

Also, I noticed that the Admin works perfectly well, but the site doesn't display.

I've uploaded a new wp-config.php with nothing but new values for db, user, pass, and host so it works for my old database. I changed it about a week ago, and it should not affect anything.

Oops. So that's what the summary is for...

I just activated a plugin called Site Unavailable and it now shows up on the front page. This proves that Wordpress is obviously taking the request, it's just not taking it properly and giving information back.

Forgive me if I am wrong. I'm an amateur.

Yes. We can even tell you in which function it's probably going wrong (redirect_canonical), but these issues are extremely hard to diagnose from the outside.

That's why markjaquith asked for access to the box (in comment 4), to be able to diagnose the problem.

Okay, I am a total amateur when it comes to stuff that deep. I know about the loop, plugins, the kind of stuff that makes you feel all fuzzy and smart and able to test something like WP 2.3 and now look. Hmm...

Thanks, markjaquith and Nazgul for helping me in figuring out my problem.

wp-includes/canonical.php

I just attached canonical.php if it's helpful, because Nazgul mentioned it? But then again, maybe not. After all, I haven't touched it since I downloaded 2.3.

Replying to chaoticmortalcom:

I just attached canonical.php if it's helpful

No, that won't help. We have as many copies of the code as we like.

Without trusting (set a temporary passwd) lead developer markjaquith to live debug the issue, you probably won't be able to resolve the issue short of just disabling canonical.

Oh. Sorry. I told you, I'm not that good at coding Wordpress. Yeah, I know PHP and HTML and that good stuff...

Does markjaquith really need a FTP or can I give him a temp. admin username on my blog?

I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who is helping me out with my problems and such with 2.3. I think it's wonderful that everyone has taken the time to enlighten me with the fact that there are helpful people working...

Thanks so much..

Does markjaquith really need a FTP or can I give him a temp. admin username on my blog?

He'd need access to modify some files AFAIK, which cant be done from within WP.

Its impossible to tell whats causing the problem from the outside(or from the WP-Admin), modifying and tinkering with WP files is the only way to determine whats causing it to fail.

Its likely that if your having problems now, that others will have the problem when 2.3 is released..

Another option might be to change your password temporarily to allow mark access? If you dont want to provide access via ftp at all(Which is understandable) then maybe theres some debug stagements that could be put in there?

I think I'll just leave at FTP, which I've already emailed him.

Also, a strange thing has happened: nothing works! I can't even get into control panel, and the only thing that shows is my Site Unavailable thing. Surely something happened, or is Mark still at work fixing things?

By control panel I mean /wp-admin

Also, I thought it was possible to edit from within the admin interface with edit.php (Manage > Files) ? Am I wrong? Or is it just something else..

Also, a strange thing has happened: nothing works! I can't even get into control panel, and the only thing that shows is my Site Unavailable thing. Surely something happened, or is Mark still at work fixing things?

Actually it looks like your site unavailable plugin is affecting everything and refusing to allow you access to the admin.

as for mark, I dont know, He might not even be available right now given he hasnt posted back

Also, I thought it was possible to edit from within the admin interface with edit.php (Manage > Files) ? Am I wrong? Or is it just something else..

Hm, Your right, i thought that was limited to plugins and themes, but if the server config allows you can edit any WP file..

If you'd like to get your blog back and working, Then you can disable the canonical redirections for now.

Remove your site unavailable plugin, then edit the file:

wp-includes/canonical.php

At the bottom of the file theres this line:

add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');

If you comment it out as such:

//add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');

then that should disable the redirection, it doesnt fix the problem code, its just a work around until mark can get back to you.

I will disable the plugin soon, even though the Site Unavailable plugin is supposed to only block index.php...

I can't do it right now because I'm at someone else's house and they don't have an FTP installed and the stupid online interface is all buggy and I can't get to my wp-content folder. I really should switch to Media Temple...

Anyways, remind me again before I do the steps listed: What does the canonical redirection function do? If it supplies the permalinks, then no links will work on my site, because everything is already on top of Mod_Rewrite... or whatever it was.

Thanks for your help DD32, markjaquith, foolswisdom, and Nasgul. Without your help, nothing would have happened!

It's the same bug as I logged here. It has to do with USER_COOKIE not being set...

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5024

mossyblog, that's not related to this issue.

(In [6143]) Remove trailing /index.php fixing from canonical.php ... Thanks chaoticmortalcom. fixes #5017

chaoticmortalcom,

I fixed your site. Thanks so much for giving me access. The issue was that your server makes $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] '/index.php' for requests to '/' An endless redirect followed, because it was trying to strip that off, but the server was telling it is was still there.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that there is any way on your server to differentiate between the two, so I've had to remove that feature of canonical.php

I may revisit this in 2.4

Gee, thanks SO much. I'll be putting up a thank-you message.