Site redirects break access to wp-json

Update: if I deactivate the plugin in the above scenario, all is good….as soon as I reactivate it (thinking: i’ll update/edit teh redirect), the original ‘site-wide’ redirection kicks in again and prevents me from accessing the redirect.

What do you mean by a redirection for an entire site – how are you doing this?

Hi John
I’m in the Dashboard of one of the member sites (it’s a multisite install), and I’m on the settings page for the ‘Redirection’ plugin.

There are various options: Groups | Site | Log | 404s | Import/Export | Options | Support.

I’ve chosen the ‘Site’ option (my url: https://hub.salford.ac.uk/welfare-at-a-social-distance/wp-admin/tools.php?page=redirection.php&sub=site) which allows me to redirect the entire site.

Thanks
mark

I have to admit I’m not sure of the behaviour of that option on multisite. I’ll need to test.

Hi John
I’ve now disabled the relevant rule at the Network level.

I’ve archived/disabled the local site – the one where I’d set up the ‘Site -> Site’ redirection that was preventing me from accessing the ‘Site’ option to delete that rule – but a faulty redirection is still occurring.

The fault is that I wish to redirect ALL URLs to a single new home page, but the redirection is insisting on appending the page stub to the domain – which causes 404s as all pages have changed!

Is there any way I can find where the redirect rule has been stored and delete it manually?

Here’s a summation:

I’ve got Redirection activated on my ‘member site’.
There’s a site->site redirect on that site which seems to be preventing the plugin from working correctly on that site.

I’ve got Redirection available on the multisite ‘main site’ – that contains a REGEX redirect – this redirect seems to make no difference to this issue, so I’ve now deleted it.

If I disable Redirection on the member site, no redirection takes place (obviously).
If I enable Redirection, then the following behaviour occurs:

• Intended behaviour: any visit to original site redirects to home page on target site; example https://hub.salford.ac.uk/welfare-at-a-social-distance should redirect to https://www.distantwelfare.co.uk/.
• Actual behaviour: any visit to original site redirects to new domain but with unwanted text appended to url; example: https://hub.salford.ac.uk/welfare-at-a-social-distance redirects to https://www.distantwelfare.co.uk/welfare-at-a-social-distance.

A site redirect will always redirect to the same URL on the target site. If you want to redirect everything to the home page then you will need to create your own regular expression redirect.

If a redirect is still occurring then it is part of your configuration on one of the sites.

Hi John
The main issue is that I can’t access the Site Configuration on the ‘broken’ site. Is there any way I can edit that configuration manually, so I can remove the offending rule?

Where is the configuration stored? Is it written to file or stored in the database?

thanks
m

You can use this to disable redirects in order to change settings: https://redirection.me/support/disable-redirection/

Hi John
I’ve sorted everything out:

• Your hint about disabling redirection allowed me to access the member site’s ‘Site Redirection’ config page without error – so I could delete the problematic ‘site redirection’.
• I then added – to the member site’s ‘Redirects’ config page – a new RegEx redirect as follows: Source URL set to (.+); Target URL set to the target
• I removed the site redirect I’d added at the ‘top level’

So all good….many thanks for your multiple replies to me – very much appreciated (as is the plugin).

mark