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Are there any known issues with having a large number of 301 redirects in an .htaccess file?
We’re redirecting our entire website — our .htaccess file contains well over 400 301 redirects — and we’re getting some errors. We set up the redirects according to the accepted convention, and our topic pages seem to work, but our article pages do not.
The resulting “bad” URL is a combination of the new URL (at the beginning) and the old URL (at the end), with no slash in between. Does this sound like a host/server problem or a WordPress problem?
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The condition you describe sounds like an anomaly and not a serious WordPress problem. We’ve seen sites with thousands of 301 redirects that work flawlessly. The determining factor is the amount of traffic going to the old URLs.
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