Redirects are not working properly

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When using the redirect YAML file, I get some sort of loop on the final URL.

My website is: yourdaily.tech
Ghost version: v5.58.0
Install: DigitalOcean OneClick
Update: CLI via SSH

I have made the routes on my website slightly different from /post to /year/month/tag/post

However, when I try to update the redirects from the old URL I get a crazy long URL and a “ERROR TOO MANY REDIRECTS” page.

How to properly use either YAML or JSON to fix this issue?

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post your redirect.yaml file for help, please!

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301:
  /with-microsoft-their-integration-of-openai-s-chat-gpt-start-using-bing-webmaster-tools/: /2023/03/microsoft/with-microsoft-their-integration-of-openai-s-chat-gpt-start-using-bing-webmaster-tools
  /how-to-setup-google-analytics-4-ga4-in-shopify/: /2023/03/shopify/how-to-setup-google-analytics-4-ga4-in-shopify
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Are your redirects reversed? It’s incoming url, then final destination.

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Yes the old URL first, and then the new URL second.

I started the website with the base url, so domain/post-url.

And then I went to domain/year/month/tag/post-url

However it seems that the new URL comes with a never ending loop

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Ah. So start the old url with ^ , which pins the match to the start of the line. :)

And then be sure those destination urls actually work on Ghost, by updating routes.yaml if you haven’t already.

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I actually did that, and still getting this error:

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301 redirects can be cached. Try another browser or another computer, see if the problem is fixed. :)

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AWESOME! You’re the best. I am updating all my links now :) :grin:

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