Redirect causing an issue where slug repeats indefinitely

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I am trying to redirect my homepage to a blog post for a “soft launch” of my website, so subscribers can sign up early without seeing the rest of the site as I continue to work on it. I have uploaded the redirect properly and Ghost has accepted it, but when I test it out, the redirect sends me to my site with the destination slug repeated indefinitely (i.e., /redirect-to/redirect-to/redirect-to/redirect-to/redirect-to/redirect-to/…etc).

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Can you share the redirects file? I assume you’re just forwarding / to the new slug? That would then match on any request to your site, both / as well as /anything/, /anything/anything/, etc. – perfect loop :smiley:

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The trick on redirects is to start the match with ^ and end it with $, which match the start and end of the path - that avoids most of the loopy behavior. So…

301 (or 302):

^/$: /some-blog-post/

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ahhh you’re an angel, this is exactly what i did wrong. can i fix this with cathy’s suggestion below?

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thank you so much cathy!!! implementing this now.

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