Redirection Loop

[demonatashadow 0]

Ok, now when I try to add a redirection it says the following:

Redirecting / to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ will cause a redirection loop because '/'
which is located at /home/hickado/public_html/
is above 'http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/'
which is located at /home/hickado/public_html/phpBB3

whats up with that? I tried everything to fix this problem.

[Tetraca 0]

This is quite strange. I redirect from ~/public_html to ~/public_html/folder all the time with no problems. If you want, here is an .htaccess file of mine that I use to redirect to a higher directory without a single problem:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://infrosoft.phatcode.net/phpwebsite

Just replace my site with your site. Hopefully that will work well.

[rvalkass 5]

I think what it is actually attempting is the following:

Take any requests to any pages in / -- this includes your forum directory

Forward those requests to the forum directory

As the forum directory is in / we need to forward them to the forum directory

It then repeats the last 2 steps for ever, as it is constantly forwarding itself to a page that needs forwarding again. Try setting the forwarding to go from /index.htm to /phpBB3/index.php. Regardless of whether index.htm exists, anyone who types your address in will automatically look for it, and get forwarded.

 

If that doesn't work, Tetraca's idea is also perfectly valid, just a different way of doing things.