Need help to repair a 301 redirect problem

Question

I have been having problems with my website and as a result did a Crawl test in SEOmoz. The test found a 301 Permanently Moved Redirect of all the pages on the website and it appears that they are redirected back to themselves? After completing a crawl of my website: There is this huge amount of what appears to be corrupted data added to the url for each of these pages: https://www.getyourphotosoncanvas.com/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/contact-us.html 301 redirect to: https://www.getyourphotosoncanvas.com/%7Egetyouv4/contact-us.html This is then followed by an long list of redirects each adding another line: For Example: domain/7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4 /%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%7Egetyouv4/%/contact-us.html This goes on forever . . . . I have shortened it for the post and removed the domain name to prevent a third link (post limit). I know this has got to be a problem: Blue host support says that they show no 301 redirects then that it might be a problem in the WP xmlrpc.php file? I am a novice at this can someone please tell me what all this means?

Just to clarify, I did not set the redirects, don't need redirects, this just showed up without my knowledge. Some have suggested a Hack?

More importantly, Can you tell me how to fix it?

Answer 1

Delete your htaccess file and update your permalinks option and see if it fixes the problem.

Answer 2

Go through your File Transfer Program (FTP) and look for a file labeled ".htacess"

Delete everything in it and put in the following code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Once this is done go into the permalinks settings and update to what you want them.