It seems to still be happening to me intermittently.

See Michal's post.

I just have read this topic and I think this is really bad thing that should have been fixed quite immediately :) . I'll report this problem to Michal and will wait for the result of investigation about this issue. I will inform you if anything will get clear in this case.

First, thank you very much Phil. The root of the problem seems to have been some sort of cookie corruption. I was able to trigger it at both wiiunite.fortunz.com and fortunz.fortunz.com and then clear the behavior by removing all fortunz and wikidot cookies and clearing the cache and authenticated sessions, shutting my browser down and reopening it. AFAIK, the (only important) custom domain, wiihd.fortunz.com is back and working without a hitch now.

The bad news is that it happened in the first place. I don't think that January issue has been resolved, and I think wikidot has some custom domain cookie issues still to resolve. If this happens to one of my readers, as I run a blog, not even a traditional wiki, they aren't necessarily as internet savvy as your average wiki user is. Odds are, I'd just lose the reader who would be wondering why I don't fix my broken site.

I'm hopeful that I can get the attention of Squark or Michal or whoever, and that they can investigate what causes the behavior. Although I don't know the precise order of events that triggers it, the last time, it was right after I logged in to a custom domain while still having cookies from the same site on wikidot's domain (I think). I'm pretty sure this problem can be reproduced.

Byw ie7 tells me

Interesting, seems to be forwarding fine for me.

That infinite reloads issue is exactly what I'm experiencing.

They say they resolved the problem back in January, and I didn't even own my domain until May. If that's it, I wonder how I triggered it. I do have some cookies with leading dots in the host space, but nothing that's duplicated.

It would at a minimum explain why IE wasn't experiencing problems, but ff was. I'll clear everything out, cache and cookies and sessions and what not, and try again.

Thanks man.

Byw ie7 tells me

I set up fortunz.fortunz.com (fortunz.wikidot.com) and fortunz.com (contests.wikidot.com) is still set to it's custom domain.

I have a new suspect, even though it doesn't make a lot of sense, since WiiHD has been set up the same way since June without a single instance of this behavior. Before following the custom domain instructions back in the day, I had set up wiihd.fortunz.com to forward to wiihd.wikidot.com. This created an A host value for WiiHD without my having to do so, so instead of creating that value from scratch, I simply reassigned the accompanying IP to wikidot's.

I set up fortunz.fortunz.com without ever creating that same forwarding, I simply created the A Host entry from scratch, and I'm setting up wiiunite as we speak using the forwarding first, then editing to the wikidot IP (As I did WiiHD way back when). If one exhibits the behavior and the other doesn't, that will at least show how to solve the problem, if not why it waited until now to reveal itself.

I then changed it to what I believe is a new IP (67.228.37.26) found in the custom domain section of the Management module, and it's working correctly.

WiiHDforum.wikidot.com is fine, it's just that it's main page forwards to wiihd.fortunz.com. wiihdforum.wikidot.com/forum:start has always been working just fine.

I may very well have screwed something up, and I'll try again tonight once I'm not endangering my traffic. I'll let you know if I figure out what triggered the whole thing.

Last night I moved www.fortunz.com to constests.wikidot.com and cleared all custom domain mapping to fortunz.wikidot.com. It's been about 12 hours since I changed those mappings.

http://wiihd.fortunz.com/ : no good
http://constests.wikidot.com/ : no good (cut and pate from your post.. is the reason i said about spelling)
http://wiihd.wikidot.com/ : is good
http://contests.wikidot.com/ : is good
http://wiihdforum.wikidot.com/ : no good!!

i just get the feeling that in you recent domain changes you have got your, (to use a uk expression) knickers in a twist

Later tonight, when there's less risk of losing visitors, I'll try to set it up again from scratch.

But no problems in FF 2.0.0.16 or IE 7.0.5730.11 ….

When all this started, I noticed the ip in the wikidot custom domain configuration didn't match the one I had in my godaddy settings, presumably because it had been changed since I set it up. I'd like to go back to the old one, but I'm not sure what it is. I'm using 67.228.37.26 which is what the wikidot custom domain admin panel gives.

Edit, Nevermind, I pulled the old one from the custom domain howto here: 74.86.235.236

It's been working fine for months.

I bet its a simple case of spelling somewhere :-)

Now when I go to wiihd in firefox, it just keeps reloading over and over without end. When I do the same thing in IE, it loads without issue. Since the new domain mapping was the only related thing I had changed, I cleared that mapping, and the change has been propogated (it now shows no site exists when you type in fortunz.com). I cleared firefox's browser cache, and even went so far as to restart my computer. The problem still exists.

If someone could visit the above link in firefox 2 and let me know if it loads or not, I'd appreciate it. The fact that it loads fine in IE 6 for me leads me to think it might just be me who is experiencing the problem, in which case I can afford to take slow steps to fix it. But if my readers, most of which use firefox, can't get through either, then I need to take more extreme steps.

Also, if the problem sounds familiar to you, I'm open to suggestions =)

EDITED to correct the spelling of my contests site