Thousands of /img/img/img urls generated by website - where are they coming from?

[McTaggart]

Hello -just fed website into Screaming Frog and ended up crashing computer as these img/img/img urls went into the 10s of thousands (and the numbers of img/img/img/ in each URL ended up going into the dozens and probably hundreds and more per URL). Never seen anything like it! Any idea what might be going on with this website and why it's generating so many of these URLs - it is anything to worry about?

Here's example of shorter URL...

www.company.com/discover/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/img/photo-competition-winners

[OlegKorneitchouk]

You have an incorrect relative link (probably link to 'img/photo-competition-winners' folder instead of '/img/photo-competition-winners') coupled with a faulty mod_rewrite/redirects (which loads the same page again, but this time you are 1 img folder deeper).

The href target stays the same so now it links another img folder deeper and you have your infinite loop.

[McTaggart]

Thanks Oleg - really helpful to know. Do I correct that and then delete the 10s of thousands of URLs in the infinite loop? What is the best solution?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Just fix the link(s) that are causing the problem by adding a / to the start of the url. Then rerun screaming frog and you should be golden.

If you are still having problems, share the URL and I can take a quick look.

[McTaggart]

Thanks Oleg - very good of you - will see how I get on...