https multiple redirects

This is somewhat of a guess, but it is probably a result of the web server configuration. What your server probably does is to see that the request want to load the blog url of the site. It checks out and sees that blog is a directory adds a slash and redirects to it. Now because the load balancer sends an http request the web server redirect to http. After that the request is made to the wordpress directory and all your htaccess and wordpress logic kicks in and provides the correct info/redirects etc.

Solution… if this is not only a good story, but also a true one, an http to https redirection in an htaccess of the root directory should probably fix it.

If it actually does fix the issue (and you think the fix worth your time) you will want to consider merging the “wordpress” htaccess into the root one as apache reads all the htaccess in each directory in the hierarchy on each request and “runs” them which is a pointless waste of time.

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