unable to create redirects – "bad nonce" message

I have the latest version of the redirection plugin installed and have gotten the following message when trying to create a redirect.

Unable to perform action – bad nonce

I am also running iThemes Security and am wondering if that is causing a conflict. About a week ago, I asked in the iThemes Security forum there but got no response.

When I look at my 404 log, I see that some visitors are mistakenly tacking “recipes” onto the end of my wp folder. I have tried (and failed) to add a redirect via cpanel in the htaccess file.

I tried directly adding the following above all the ithemes security coding in the htaccess file for the wp folder. Alas, this didn’t work.

# trying to redirect /blog/recipes to /recipes
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\blog\recipes\$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/recipes/$1 [L,R=301]

htaccess coding makes me cringe. For anyone who actually understands htaccess coding, how do I create a wildcard redirect from /blog/recipes/ to /recipes/.

Alternatively, how do I achieve this in the redirection plugin?

Thank you.

E Morris, etherwork [dot] net [slash] blog <<purposely unlinked in attempt to keep spammers at bay (there’s a really good reason that I have iThemes Security plugin who helped enormously to rid me of bruteforce attacks)

I see that, as of today, there is yet another wp update required :-/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/