Hi all,
if anyone could help me I would appreciate it enormously, I´m going insane with this!
been searching all over the net and can´t find a solution, so I´m turning to you. Im running a worpress blog on my own server.

My host is using IIS6/windows 2003, so I did the pretty permalink redirect through 404 redirect on my server, like recommended here:
http://tech.einaregilsson.com/2007/0...#comment-52536
It all works fine, except one thing, the index page keeps refreshing in a loop every 3 seconds or something. I have tried php redirects in the theme editor, htaccess, isn´t working because of the IIS, I guess, so non of the plugins work either.
Here´s my site if you want tocheck it out:
http://www.efven.com/
the other pages and posts are fine and doesn´t behave that way. Mark that I haven´t put any refresh code in it, I only did the 404 redirect and then it started to behave like that.
any thoughts?
much appreciated,

Somewhere in your PHP code is a line that says

header("refresh: 0; url="/")

I´ve been looking through it and I can´t find it no matter what.I haven´t gone through the root directory though, can it be there to?

It might have something to do with the redirect. I put a 404 handler script in the root, like this:

<?php
$qs = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$pos = strrpos($qs, '://');
$pos = strpos($qs, '/', $pos + 4);
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr($qs, $pos);
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
include('index.php');
?>


then I did a 404 redirect from my server. In that way I can run "pretty permalinks" on IIS/windows.
It´s so strange.

These are the headers from your site, the one in bold is the problem.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:07:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
X-Pingback: http://www.efven.com/xmlrpc.php
Refresh: 0;url=http://www.efven.com/
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Some code that is used ONLY on the index page is causing it.

code added here removed

it's probably in this function

<?php get_header(); ?>

As it has to be occuring BEFORE the doctype gets sent to the browser

I tried it, but it wasn´t it. It continued looping without the header.
how annoying.

Found it! started for some reason think that it might be a plugin, so I uninstalled one and it worked! It was a plugin called permalink redirect, if anyone should have this problem in the world some day . Actually found one in an old blog comment (also mailed him in desperation but he hasn´t answered).
Chrishirst, thank you for taking the time trying to help, I really appretiate it!

I´ve been reading this forum for a while but never posted, and found a lot of help here, thanks!