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dejudicibus
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 Posted: Thu 22 Dec '11 1:03 Post subject: Accessing by localhost gives diff result than 127.0.0.1 |
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I am experimenting a strange behavior. I have a WampServer environment on which I installed WordPress on my local PC. When I load the main file of my blog, that is, http://localhost:8080/wordpress/index.php, I get from Chrome and Firefox an error 301 message about too many redirect, or redirect loop. Note that I use 8080 port to avoid conflict with Skype. However, if I load ANY OTHER page of blog, I have no problems. I spent a lot trying to troubleshoot this problem: I looked at .htaccess file, cleared the cache, change wordpress code... I tried mostly any suggestion I found on web about similar problems. No way. However, it is not that what surprised me, but the fact that, when I loaded http://127.0.0.1:8080/wordpress/index.php everything worked fine! In fact, the same blog, when published on the web on a real domain, works fine. Now, I know that localhost IS NOT exactly 127.0.0.1 since the former use windows sockets whereas the latter only TCP/IP, but I do not really understand why that affect redirects....  Any idea? I cannot find anything in httpd.conf that could be relate dto that... |
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glsmith
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec '11 4:28 Post subject: |
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| localhost on Win Vista & up is typically ::1 ipv6, this could be why if the WAMP is not IPv6 capable. |
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dejudicibus
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec '11 21:51 Post subject: |
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| glsmith wrote: | | localhost on Win Vista & up is typically ::1 ipv6, this could be why if the WAMP is not IPv6 capable. |
I have the problem on both XP and Vista. It is not related to IPv6. |
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dejudicibus
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| Posted: Thu 22 Dec '11 21:52 Post subject: |
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| glsmith wrote: | | localhost on Win Vista & up is typically ::1 ipv6, this could be why if the WAMP is not IPv6 capable. |
Please, note that the problem is related only to REDIRECT LOOP on MAIN page. I have no problem to use localhost on any other page, even of the same blog. |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Sun 25 Dec '11 17:05 Post subject: |
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| dejudicibus wrote: |
Please, note that the problem is related only to REDIRECT LOOP on MAIN page. I have no problem to use localhost on any other page, even of the same blog. |
I guress the redirect is caused by wordpress. Cause you have to enter a domain name in the backend and wordpress tries to switch to that url. I had that problem too, when I switched from www.example.com to example.com 
I think there is plugins that allows multiple domain name in wordpress. Else you have to work with the url of your choise. |
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dejudicibus
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec '11 0:38 Post subject: |
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| James Blond wrote: | I guress the redirect is caused by wordpress. Cause you have to enter a domain name in the backend and wordpress tries to switch to that url. I had that problem too, when I switched from www.example.com to example.com
I think there is plugins that allows multiple domain name in wordpress. Else you have to work with the url of your choise. |
Well, sure! I *KNOW* that redirect is caused by a WordPress plugin. I also know which one: qTranslate. I wonder why the problem occurs
1. only with index.php
2. only on localhost (not on domain)
3. only with Firefox and Chrome, but not with Opera
4. only with localhost:8080 but NOT with 127.0.0.1:8080
I suspect I could setup my Apache config to vaoid that. PS Do not tell me to get through with qTranslate: I won't |
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James Blond
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I have no expenrience with qTranslate.
Well I'm not a wordpress hacker. What do you mean by only index.php? Do you use the rewriting with .htaccess file? |
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dejudicibus
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec '11 19:50 Post subject: |
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| James Blond wrote: | I have no expenrience with qTranslate.
Well I'm not a wordpress hacker. What do you mean by only index.php? Do you use the rewriting with .htaccess file? |
I use the standard WordPress-generated .htaccess. By ONLY INDEX.PHP I mean that the problem occurs only on coverpage, not with any other page of blog, and only if I use localhost. If I use 127.0.0.1 or on remote domain, no problem. I suspect there is a problem of "lack of communications" between Apache and the Windows socket that does not exist if I use TCP/IP directly, but I am not so expert of httpd demons to understand which one. |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec '11 20:47 Post subject: |
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That scenario is a bit weired to me.
Condtion: url is / and host is localhost.
result: it fails
Condition: url is /whatever and host is localhost
result: it works
I need to know more. Which apache version and where downloaed?
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REDIRECT LOOP on MAIN
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Which error message do you get in your browser? What happens in that time in the error log and the access log? |
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dejudicibus
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec '11 21:40 Post subject: |
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| James Blond wrote: | That scenario is a bit weired to me.
Condtion: url is / and host is localhost.
result: it fails
Condition: url is /whatever and host is localhost
result: it works
I need to know more. Which apache version and where downloaed?
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REDIRECT LOOP on MAIN
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Which error message do you get in your browser? What happens in that time in the error log and the access log? |
FAILS FOR
url is / && localhost
WORKS FOR
url is / && 127.0.0.1
url is / && myblog.com
url is /whatever && (localhost|127.0.0.1|myblog.com)
I use the latest version of WampServer, 2.2, that is:
Apache Version : 2.2.21
PHP Version : 5.3.8
MSG is Too Many Redirects | Redirect Loop
access.log show no problem, but there are too many 302 like this
127.0.0.1 - - [16/Dec/2011:18:21:49 +0100] "GET /wordpress/it HTTP/1.1" 302 - |
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