Unnecessary IIS redirects

[zcadqliv]

http://www.glimm_erdog.com

Put in the underscore above for safety.

I have a bunch {2000+} unnecessary redirects. I think it has something to do with either an .htaccsess file or a configure.php file.

The reason for thinking that is a lot of errors reference "cookie usage" and http -> https. I do have a SSL

I have a 301 redirect going from http://glimm.. to http://www.glimm.

Tried to figure it out, but could use some genius help. Thanks.

[Website Rob]

Although your SSL Cert is uses 'www.glim...' your Zen Cart 'includes/configure.php' for is not setup that way.

Check both your config files to make sure 'www' is used in your Domain name.

In your .htaccess file for the redirect it should look like this:

RewriteEngine ON
# Note: you only need the 'RewriteEngine ON' to be stated once
# it is mentioned here in case it is not already in your .htaccess file

## adds www to Browser URL
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
### end adding www

Put the code at the top of your .htaccess file, for easy reference.

Also, always make sure to immediately test any changes to your .htaccess file. If something within it is incorrect your site will not be accessible. By verifying your work you can make sure things are working as you want and if they are not, quickly put things back the way they were.

[zcadqliv]

Thanks. I still have an issue but this did drop the unnecessary redirects by 1/3.

There are 6 instances of the address in the 2 configure.php files. All of them should be www.?

Also, I only need to edit the 1 .htaccess file?

Appreciate it!

[DrByte]

I have a bunch {2000+} unnecessary redirects.

Who's telling you that you have 2000+ "unnecessary" redirects?
And what exactly constitutes "unnecessary" in your definition?

[zcadqliv]

I am using the MS IIS program and I believe another program flagged the same thing. I don't have my own definition of unnecessary. A lot of them list a link and a redirect to the "cookie usage" page and others have referenced http vs https.

[Website Rob]

Thanks. I still have an issue but this did drop the unnecessary redirects by 1/3.

There are 6 instances of the address in the 2 configure.php files. All of them should be www.?

Also, I only need to edit the 1 .htaccess file?

Appreciate it!

Yes, all 6 and Yes, the main .htaccess file

[DrByte]

I am using the MS IIS program and I believe another program flagged the same thing. I don't have my own definition of unnecessary. A lot of them list a link and a redirect to the "cookie usage" page and others have referenced http vs https.

Who are these visitors? Are they legitimate customers? Or are they robots scraping your site?

[zcadqliv]

Thanks for the info Rob.

Doc -> I believe that the program works like a robot looking for errors. One separate error says the index.php has been referenced too many times and suggests a possible "infinite loop". My host had said to do a Wild Card redirect, but when I do I have trouble getting into the Admin. The site and SSL are working fine but I'm concerned about how the search engines could be handling this. I'm thinking my .htaccess is missing something to account for both the 301 move to www AND the https on the SSL. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, you guys know way more than I do.

I think my Admin/Config/Sessions is set ok.

Thanks.

[DrByte]

What version of Zen Cart? What addons? What version of IIS?

[zcadqliv]

1.3.9h
I have Google Merchant Feeder and Multi Cross-sell.
The IIS is 7.0 Extensions I believe. Its for Windows 7 and I just downloaded that version a month ago.