1022964 - Infinite redirect on mana.mozilla.org

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: IT-Managed Tools, task)

Description

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

When manually typing in an address like https://mana.mozilla.org/bug, Mana tries to redirect to htts://mana.mozilla.org/wikibug. The part on the end can be any thing to reproduce this bug, so "wikibug" also redirects to "wikiwikibug", and then to "wikiwikiwikibug", and so forth. Eventually Firefox gets sick of Mana's redirects and throws up an error page about the page not redirecting properly.

I suspect there is an Apache rewrite rule somewhere that needs a trailing slash added or a leading slash removed.

Comment 1

[Chris Turra [:cturra]]

:mythmon - i know the infinite loop doesn't make sense, but i am curious what your expected outcome is? looking at the apache config, this following rewrite is in place (and has been since commit 11580, which is many years old): 

 Redirect / https://mana.allizom.org/wiki

Comment 2

[Chris Turra [:cturra]]

* i included the stage redirect, but the same applies in prod. i just wanted to clarify that.

 Redirect / https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki

Comment 3

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

I did this mainly because I was hopeful that https://mana.mozilla.org/Page would go to some the page of the right name, which I have learned wouldn't work anyways. So now I don't have an expected outcome besides a 404, but it would be nice to get a sane document not found page instead of sending the browser on an infinite loop quest.

Comment 4

[Chris Turra [:cturra]]

i updated the rewrite to do its thing a little more sensibly.

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki
  RewriteRule   ^/(.*)$        https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/$1 [R=302,L]

Comment 5

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

Verified. Thanks, Chris.