Merged "This webpage has a redirect loop"

Well, I simply turned the J! SEO off, and all works fine. I'll just have to live with it I suppose. Thanks for the help!

If turning on and off Joomla SEO has some affect then there's definitely something fishy going on with your .htaccess file.

Is there any chance we might be able to access your forum? You can provide us with a test account "wrapped" in the confidential tag, like so:

Sent you a PM with the account details:

I upgraded from 1.6 beta to 1.6.1. Now the forum menu link brings me to 'The webpage at www.bilingualrussian.com/us/forum has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.'

I tried it in another browser, same thing, so it's not a cookie issue. This is only happening for the Kunena menu item, not any other. I deleted the menu item and recreated it, but same thing.

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Legacy mode: Disabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Enabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 64M | Max file upload: 10M

Joomla default template details : yoo_enterprise | author: YOOtheme | version: 1.5.1 | creationdate: April 2010

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.6.1 | Build: 3858 | Version name: Timu | Kunena detailled configuration:

Warning: Spoiler!

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Your website is unconventional. There looks as if there's some kind of HTML "optimiser" product at work on your site (could possible be something installed with YOOTheme template, I don't know).

Here is a summary of the known causes of the redirect loop issue (in descending order of likelihood) the most likely cause is at the top:

(1) customised .htaccess
(2) issues involving third-party SEF software
(3) menu item with no itemid
(4) the wrong itemid (this would not be generated by the Kunena component)
(5) legacy menu items from K 1.5
(6) the webhosting platform that you are using

Are any of these conditions related to your case?

there is no third party sef software or legacy menu items from k 1.5. there is no menu item without an id. jch optimizer plugin is installed, but disabling it did not help.
the site is on bluehost. everything was working with 1.6 beta - what changes were made in the upgrade to stable 1.6.1 that would cause this problem?

i found the menu that kunena created on its own and copied the entry page menu item to the main menu. Now i can get to the forum, but when i click on any of the postings, I get the same type of error message:
The webpage at www.bilingualrussian.com/ru/forum/%D0%A3...82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

with utf-8 support turned off, i get The webpage at www.bilingualrussian.com/us/forum/

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has resulted in too many redirects. etc. etc.

The posts are in Russian.