Google Fect compains about "The page seems to redirect to itself."

jose · May 2013

Hi,

I have a forum that was installed on a server before the final domain was hosted there. So the initial domain/link were:

http://www.gepsoft.com.testing.bytemark.co.uk/forum/

Then I pointed the final domain so now it is:

http://www.gepsoft.com/forum/

I have two problems though:

First the links in the confirmation emails for new users show the testing link instead of the final one and second (and more serious) when I fetch the initial page of the forum with Google's Webmaster Tools it gives the error:

"The page seems to redirect to itself. This may result in an infinite redirect loop"

And this is what Google sees:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:52:49 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.gepsoft.com/forum/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 195
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.gepsoft.com/forum/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>

I guess Google is not going to index the forum. Would anyone know how this can be solved?

Cheers,
Jose

jose · May 2013

Sorry, just noticed the title is not correct. I meant to right "Google Fetch complains..."

jose · May 2013

Answering my own question. It appears that the problem was with the DNS configuration (a missing PTR record for the IPv6 range).

Google Fect compains about "The page seems to redirect to itself."

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