Home redirects to home with query parameters after cron job

Resolved

(@bcupham)

Hi,

We had a brief outage over the weekend we are trying to figure out that may be related to Redirection, although it is hard to say. Our hosting platform said it might. Any insight you can provide would be most appreciated.

Below are the logs in order of occurrence. I’ve removed identifying info (our domain) but everything else is there. You can see the first GET request after the cron job is triggered results in a 301. The homepage then got stuck in a 301 loop for an hour.

Also, after it was all over (we restarted PHP) when we went to our domain it redirected to https://www.[our domain redacted].com/?utm_term=%20backgroud%20check, which was the last URL requested before the 301 loop started.

[17/Jul/2021:09:09:07 +0000] GET "/info.php" HTTP/1.0 404 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 YaBrowser/18.3.1.1232 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36" 74.208.131.53 "/info.php" - 3.28 351 0.000 -
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:08 +0000] POST "/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1626512947.9392189979553222656250" HTTP/1.0 200 "https://www.[our domain redacted].com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1626512947.9392189979553222656250" "WordPress/5.7.2; https://www.[our domain redacted].com" 35.230.85.194 "/wp-cron.php" - 0.00 353 0.342 0.344
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:08 +0000] GET "/?utm_term=+backgroud+check" HTTP/1.0 301 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" 165.227.65.26 "/index.php" - - 581 1.107 1.108
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:12 +0000] GET "/robots.txt" HTTP/1.0 200 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)" 5.45.207.70 "/index.php" - 0.97 617 0.000 -
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:14 +0000] GET "/" HTTP/1.0 301 "-" "Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)" 209.58.139.193 "/index.php" - - 577 0.000 -
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:14 +0000] GET "/?utm_term=%20backgroud%20check" HTTP/1.0 301 "-" "Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)" 209.58.139.193 "/index.php" - - 577 0.000 -
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:14 +0000] GET "/?utm_term=%20backgroud%20check" HTTP/1.0 301 "-" "Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)" 209.58.139.193 "/index.php" - - 577 0.000 -
[17/Jul/2021:09:09:14 +0000] GET "/" HTTP/1.0 301 "-" "09_Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)" 104.129.24.154 "/index.php" - - 577 0.000 -
... and so on for an hour...

Again, any assistance would be helpful. We are unable to replicate this on our end. The site is somewhat custom and uses Autoptimize and Redis.

Thank you,
Ben

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

2 years, 9 months ago

Redirection only redirects what you tell it to redirect. Have you created a redirect for this?

Remember that anything can perform a redirect on your site, and Redirection just happens to have the word ‘redirect’ in the name.

Thread Starter bcupham
(@bcupham)

2 years, 9 months ago

Hi John,

Yes I’m not certain the plugin has anything to do with it. Just doing my due diligence in case anything looked familiar to you. We have not created a redirect for that URL.

Thanks,
Ben

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

2 years, 9 months ago

Redirection will identify itself in any redirect that it performs, so if the situation occurs again you can use something like https://redirect.li/http/ to see what is happening.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Home redirects to home with query parameters after cron job’ is closed to new replies.