Redirect behaving oddly on one site. BEWARE of conflicting redirects
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******This issue has resolved itself and is for the benefit of other users**********
On one of my sites Leicester Property Insight, upon installing Rankmath, it deactivates our redirection plugin (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) as Rankmath has the same functionality and it works on my other sites but not this one. When redirecting from /connectuk to a new domain, the redirect will redirect to this URL and a 404 page:
https://www.leicesterpropertyinsight.co.uk/a:3:s:8:url_from;s:0:;s:11:url_notfrom;s:0:;s:6:server;s:42:https:/www.leicesterpropertyinsight.co.ukI use an http to https plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/https-redirection/) and a range of other plugins.
When I deactivate Rankmath and reactivate the redirection plugin (first link), the redirect works.
When I disable the redirect and deactivate the plugin, reactivate Rankmath and check the redirect, it doesn’t work on Leicester Property Insight. The URL I’m redirecting to, and the Rankmath redirect does work on another site (same server).
When I deactivate all plugins, except for Rankmath (using the WordPress Health Check troubleshooting plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/), the redirect still doesn’t work.
I think the problem may be with how it is writing the HTAccess file…
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So, it’d be a shame to just delete this post after I spent the best part of an hour testing things whilst writing the post but the issue was nothing to do with Rankmath (again – the Rankmath Devs will remember my previous contact with them via the review haha) or my server or the site itself. It was entirely to do with having multiple redirects for the same URL (/connectuk) redirecting to different URLS.I’m not sure how I managed to create the conflicting redirects but the page we were being redirected to was the FIRST redirection I had set up (I’m not entirely sure how I managed to get the link as I simply don’t recognise it); I assume I had forgotten about the redirect and upon creating new redirects, they didn’t work and this was forgotten about too.
I suppose a bit of feedback we can take from this is to put an “if” statement into the code where, if there is already a redirect created, it’ll either throw up a warning or the most recent redirect would supercede and take priority over the old redirect, thus allowing a fallback URL to be used (rather than error 404 or homepage redirect as backup as set under general settings).
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********Further Issue**********************
So, I resolved the redirect problem. However, after deactivating Rank Math, activating the old redirect plugin, testing everything, deactivating the redirect plugin and reactivating Rank Math, it says:
Please keep only one SEO plugin active, otherwise, you might lose your rankings and traffic. Click here to Deactivate.
But all other redirect plugins have been deactivated (including the HTTP to HTTPS redirect plugin) and the warning message still displayed. I’ve also tried deactivating redirects and reactivating them via the settings.
How do I resolve this? I’ve also disabled and reenabled all plugins.
When I press the little x to close the message and go to another page in the dashboard, it comes back.
When I enable debugging via the settings, it doesn’t appear to do anything and redirects work as normal.
**************Also resolved**************
I went back through the setup wizard, clicked Save and Continue without making any changes at all. The warning disappeared and the debug redirects is now working.
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