I think I'm stuck in a 301 redirect loop

[Technical_Contact]

Hi all, I'm trying to correct some of my duplicate content errors. The site is built on Miva Merchant and the storefront page, /SFNT.html, needs to be permanently redirected to www.mydomain.com

This is what my .htaccess file looks like:

#RedirectPermanent /index.html http://dev.mydomain.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^dev.mydomain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://dev.emydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php /mm5/merchant.mvc

redirect 301 /SFNT.html http://dev.mydomain.com/

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=MYSTORECODE [NC]

When I use this code and navigate to http://dev.mydomain.com/SFNT.html the URL gets rewritten as http://dev.mydomain.com/?Screen=SFNT

So I believe this is what's called a "redirect loop"....

Can anyone provide any insight? I'm not a developer, but have been tasked with cleaning up the problems on the website and can use any input anyone is willing to offer.

Thanks,

jr

[wissamdandan]

Redirect Loop is when you create 2 opposite redirect rules.

and basically your site will never load at al,l because the browser will time out

did you try ?

RedirectMatch 301 /STNT.html http://www.domain.com

[Technical_Contact]

I just tried adjusting as below and it still rewrites the URL to http://www.mydomain.com/?Screen=SFNT

RedirectMatch 301 /SFNT.html http://dev.mydomain.com

[wissamdandan]

In this case you need to use rel Canonical

His your reference from Miva Merchant

http://www.mivamerchant.com/blog/google-addresses-duplicate-content

[Technical_Contact]

Wow, I've been working with Miva's Design Club, going back and forth on how to fix this, for over a month. I should have asked the question here. I can finally get down to fixing this issue.

Thank you!

jr