[Plugin: Redirection] Root redirect is created on page creation

That’s true, it does happen to me as well and I think is a bug.
There is a fix on Forums but I think is out dated as the code of the plugin has changed since the fix has been posted.

Yeah, any of the posts that I found with a solution weren’t helpful. We edited models/redirect.php so that it wouldn’t create a redirect for URL: / no matter what. That fixed our issue for now, but hopefully the author of the plugin will release an update soon with a permanent fix.

t8shter could you post the fixed code here please I am having the same issue as well Your fix would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t remember what the original file looked like, but if you open wp-content/plugins/redirection/redirect.php and go down to around line 198 or so, you will see a Red_Item::sanitize line … we added that to the $url variable and put in the if below that … hope this helps a little.

$url = Red_Item::sanitize_url( $details['source'], $regex);

      // preg_match check added to prevent / from being redirected.
      if ( $group_id > 0 && $matcher && !preg_match('/^\/$/', $url) ) {
         $regex    = ( isset( $details['regex']) && $details['regex'] != false) ? true : false;
         $position = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}redirection_items WHERE group_id=%d", $group_id ) );

         $action = $details['red_action'];
         $action_code = 0;
         if ( $action == 'url' || $action == 'random' )
            $action_code = 301;
         elseif ( $action == 'error' )
            $action_code = 404;

         if ( isset( $details['action_code'] ) )
            $action_code = intval( $details['action_code'] );

            $data = array(
               'url'         => $url,
               'action_type' => $details['red_action'],
               'regex'       => $regex,
               'position'    => $position,
               'match_type'  => $details['match'],
               'action_data' => $matcher->data( $details ),
               'action_code' => $action_code,
               'last_access' => 0,
               'group_id'    => $group_id
            );

         $wpdb->insert( $wpdb->prefix.'redirection_items', $data );

sorry, that was the wrong file!

wp-content/plugins/redirection/models/redirect.php

Thanks for the tips guys.

I was having this problem today, all the new blog posts were automaticallly creating a redirect from /blog/ to the post. SO, the homepage couldn’t be viewed.

Using T8shter’s tip, this is what I did for a plugin hack (look for ‘I ADDED THIS’):

function create( $details ) {
                global $wpdb;

                // Auto generate URLs
                if ( $details['source'] == '' )
                        $details['source'] = Red_Item::auto_generate();

                if ( $details['target'] == '' )
                        $details['target'] = Red_Item::auto_generate();

                // Make sure we don't redirect to ourself
                if ( $details['source'] == $details['target'] )
                        $details['target'] .= '-1';

                $matcher = Red_Match::create( $details['match'] );
                $group_id  = intval( $details['group'] );

                if ( $group_id > 0 && $matcher ) {
                        $regex    = ( isset( $details['regex']) && $details['regex'] != false) ? true : false;
                        $position = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}redirection_items WHERE group_id=%d", $group_id ) );

                        $action = $details['red_action'];
                        $action_code = 0;
                        if ( $action == 'url' || $action == 'random' )
                                $action_code = 301;
                        elseif ( $action == 'error' )
                                $action_code = 404;

                        if ( isset( $details['action_code'] ) )
                                $action_code = intval( $details['action_code'] );

                        $data = array(
                                'url'         => Red_Item::sanitize_url( $details['source'], $regex),
                                'action_type' => $details['red_action'],
                                'regex'       => $regex,
                                'position'    => $position,
                                'match_type'  => $details['match'],
                                'action_data' => $matcher->data( $details ),
                                'action_code' => $action_code,
                                'last_access' => 0,
                                'group_id'    => $group_id
                        );
                        if (!in_array(strtolower($data['url']), array('/','/blog/'))) # I ADDED THIS LINE
                        $wpdb->insert( $wpdb->prefix.'redirection_items', $data );

                        $group = Red_Group::get( $group_id );
                        Red_Module::flush( $group->module_id );

                        return Red_Item::get_by_id( $wpdb->insert_id );
                }

                return false;
        }

I’ve had this problem for a couple weeks too. Adding the one line as per gavinengel’s hack seems to have fixed it. I hope the plugin author updates this soon…

I hope in a fix soon!
This is a problem for me too ??

Has anyone heard from the developer on this problem?

I have noticed it happened when you start writing something new without entering a new title first.