Site Redirect Loop during Development

[M-DEV-1]

Description

While working on certain pages of the site, I occasionally encounter a redirect loop that prevents the page from rendering updated content. This issue causes the browser to continuously reload or serve cached redirects, making it difficult to test or verify recent changes during development.

Expected Behavior

Screenshots

Environment:

• OS: Mac Linux Windows
• Browser: Chrome Safari Firefox
• Version:
• Device: Desktop Mobile

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[M-DEV-1]

Sharing the current development configuration for Meshery (_config-dev.yml) for context and troubleshooting.

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# ----
# Site

title: Meshery
url: "https://meshery.io"
baseurl: ""
google_analytics_key: UA-152604689-1
google_maps_javascript_api_key:
disqus_shortname:

# Values for the jekyll-seo-tag gem (https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag)
logo: /assets/images/logos/meshery-gradient.png
description: The extensible cloud native manager. Confidently wrangle cloud native infrastructure with Meshery.
author:
  name: The Meshery Authors
  email: community@meshery.io
  twitter: mesheryio
social:
  name: Meshery
  links:
    - https://github.com/meshery/meshery.io

# -----
# Colors
coolgray: "#3C494F"
lightgreen: "#00D3A9"
darkgreen: "#00B39F"

# -----
# Build

plugins:
  - jekyll-archives
  - jekyll-sitemap
  - jekyll-seo-tag
  - jekyll-feed
  - octopress-paginate

timezone: Etc/UTC

collections_dir: collections
collections:
  charts:
    output: false
  contributors:
    output: true
    permalink: /community/members/:name
  extensions:
    output: true
    permalink: /:collection/:name
    sort_by: name
  pages:
    output: true
  programs:
    output: true
  catalog:
    output: true
    # sort_by: patternId
  models:
    output: true
    permalink: /catalog/:collection/:name
    sort_by: name
  filters:
    output: true
    permalink: /catalog/:collection/:name
    sort_by: name
  handbook:
    output: true
    permalink: /community/:collection/:name
  custom-models:
    output: true
    permalink: /catalog/models/:name

# Post URL format
permalink: /blog/:year/:month/:name/

# paginate: 5
# paginate_path: "/blog/:num/"

# # Site configuration for the Jekyll 3 Pagination Gem
# # The values here represent the defaults if nothing is set
# pagination:
#   enabled: true
#   per_page: 2
#   permalink: "/page/:num/"
#   title: " - page :num"
#   limit: 0
#   sort_field: "date"
#   sort_reverse: true
pagination:
  per_page: 6
  permalink: "/page:num"

#   # Site-wide kill switch, disabled here it doesn't run at all
#   enabled: true

#   # Set to 'true' to enable pagination debugging. This can be enabled in the site config or only for individual pagination pages
#   debug: false

#   # The default document collection to paginate if nothing is specified ('posts' is default)
# collection: 'posts'

#   # How many objects per paginated page, used to be `paginate` (default: 0, means all)
# per_page: 5

#   # The permalink structure for the paginated pages (this can be any level deep)
# permalink: /blog/:category/:title
# permalink: pretty
#   permalink: '/page/:num/' # Pages are index.html inside this folder (default)
#   #permalink: '/page/:num.html' # Pages are simple html files
#   #permalink: '/page/:num' # Pages are html files, linked jekyll extensionless permalink style.

#   # Optional the title format for the paginated pages (supports :title for original page title, :num for pagination page number, :max for total number of pages)
#   title: ':title - page :num'

#   # Limit how many pagenated pages to create (default: 0, means all)
#   limit: 0

#   # Optional, defines the field that the posts should be sorted on (omit to default to 'date')
#   sort_field: 'patternId'

#   # Optional, sorts the posts in reverse order (omit to default decending or sort_reverse: true)
#   sort_reverse: false

#   # Optional, the default category to use, omit or just leave this as 'posts' to get a backwards-compatible behavior (all posts)
#   category: 'posts'

#   # Optional, the default tag to use, omit to disable
#   tag: ''

#   # Optional, the default locale to use, omit to disable (depends on a field 'locale' to be specified in the posts,
#   # in reality this can be any value, suggested are the Microsoft locale-codes (e.g. en_US, en_GB) or simply the ISO-639 language code )
#   locale: ''

#  # Optional,omit or set both before and after to zero to disable.
#  # Controls how the pagination trail for the paginated pages look like.
#   trail:
#     before: 2
#     after: 2

#   # Optional, the default file extension for generated pages (e.g html, json, xml).
#   # Internally this is set to html by default
#   extension: html

#   # Optional, the default name of the index file for generated pages (e.g. 'index.html')
#   # Without file extension
#   indexpage: 'index'

############################################################

defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "pages"
    values:
      layout: "plain"
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "posts"
      permalink: '/blog/:year/:month/:name/'
    values:
      layout: "post"
      _options:
        content:
          width: 1500
          height: 2500
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "catalog"
    values:
      _options:
        image:
          width: 600
          height: 600

  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "contributors"
    values:
      _options:
        image_path:
          width: 600
          height: 600
  - scope:
      path: ""
    values:
      layout: "page"
  - scope:
      path: "programs.html"
    values:
      layout: "default"
  - scope:
      path: "index.html"
    values:
      layout: "default"
  - scope:
      path: "contact.html"
    values:
      full_width: true

jekyll-archives:
  enabled:
    - categories
  permalinks:
    category: '/blog/category/:name/'

markdown: kramdown

exclude:
  - Gemfile
  - Gemfile.lock
  - README.md
  - LICENSE

# -----------
# Hydra

social_icons:
  - Facebook
  - Google Plus
  - Instagram
  - LinkedIn
  - Pinterest
  - Tumblr
  - Twitter
  - YouTube
  - RSS
  - Bluesky

_comments:
  map: Update the map location and display settings.
  latitude: Coordinates for the center marker on the map.
  longitude: Coordinates for the center marker on the map.
  zoom: The zoom level for the map.
  features_table: Update the information in the pricing tables.
  highlight: Emphasis the text
  color: The background colour used in the plan name and call to action.
  new_window: Open link in new window

// @vishalvivekm

[tokosaniya09]

Hey @M-DEV-1 I'd like to work on this issue

[Namanv0509]

Yeah so after a few tests , there are some changes we do in the build commands , one of them was to remove the --incremental flag ( as it keeps the cached _site ) but this will be tradeoff on speed .
another thing we can do is to just add an jekyll clean before && then rest of server command for build .

I will test a few more things on it regarding the permalink .

@M-DEV-1 @vishalvivekm can it be assigned .

[vishalvivekm]

@M-DEV-1 Will you please list such pages, where you encounter the loop?

[vishalvivekm]

@M-DEV-1 Will you please list such pages, where you encounter the loop?

if there's a page : /newcomer
and there's a redirect_from: /newcomer/, you might try removing the redirect_from to see if this prevents the loop

[Namanv0509]

As per the last meet i think it was for the talks-and-presentations page .

[M-DEV-1]

@Namanv0509, yes you're right

I am currently facing this issue on the talks-and-presentations page during development.

I'll try removing the extra, unnecessary redirects 👍🏼