# Better handling of accidental addition of default ToS/FAQ/privacy to tos\_url/faq\_url/privacy\_url admin settings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [30 בספטמבר, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878 "2019-09-30T17:55:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@aldobelus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aldobelus)
#### Post date: [30 בספטמבר, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/1 "2019-09-30T17:55:05Z")
Hello. My Discourse installation was perfect until a pair days ago. I don’t know why, all of a sudden, the error “ERR\_TOO\_MANY\_REDIRECTS” start to appears.
[https://imgur.com/BIKE42U](https://imgur.com/BIKE42U)
The problem is not because the cookies. Is happening to me at my phone, at my two PC web browsers -after erase the cookies, obviously, and the cache, too-… Is a curious thing too that it only happens at this three pages, the ones related at the title. Isn’t it funny? The rest of the forum is just gorgeous! Thank, by the way, for your great doing with that platform.
The forum is not open yet. We have offered a few invitation links, but the problem started before anyone _from outer world_ came to visit us. I say it just in case this reveals some interest… I think not.
This three pages, are related in any way, are them apart from the others? I can’t understand the situation. Why fails this three but no the rest of the forum?
Can you help me somehow with this matter? I don’t know where to start…
This is the address, if you want to try: [https://laplazoleta.org/about](https://laplazoleta.org/about)
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [30 בספטמבר, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/2 "2019-09-30T18:13:07Z")
I can reproduce this on my site if I set the `faq url` or `tos url` site settings to the default FAQ and TOS urls for my site. Can you check your site settings to see if that is causing the problem for you? These settings should be left empty if you want to use the default URLs for these pages.
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### Author:  [@aldobelus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aldobelus)
#### Post date: [30 בספטמבר, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/3 "2019-09-30T20:54:48Z")
Oh, @simon, I love you!! I didn’t associate the problem with these settings because the error occurred recently, and I only touched there at the beginning of the installation, about a month ago. I suppose I don’t visit these pages (TOS, FAQ…) often enough!
Thank you very much!
In any case, I think the explanation you can find below the small window where you can enter those values is not very clear. At least, not in Spanish. See:
[https://imgur.com/LSQxgFD](https://imgur.com/LSQxgFD)
It says something like: _If you have a document for (privacy policy, TOS, or FAQ) hosted anywhere, put its URL here_… But wouldn’t it be better to add “_ **but leave it empty if this URL is at your Discourse installation** _” or something similar? I assume that by writing just a few more letters, it would be clearer for other clumsy guys—or girls—like me in the future… 😜
It’s an idea… Thanks! Gracias!
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [30 בספטמבר, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/4 "2019-09-30T21:37:02Z")
> [@aldobelus](#):
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> If you have a document for (privacy p., tos or faq) hosted anywhere, put its URL here
This might be an error in the translation. In English it says “If you have a Terms of Service document hosted _elsewhere_ that you want to use, provide the full URL here.” That said, maybe Discourse should handle the case when the default URLs get entered into these settings to avoid the ‘too many redirects’ issue.
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### Author:  [@aldobelus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aldobelus)
#### Post date: [1 באוקטובר, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/7 "2019-10-01T15:19:27Z")
That’s right! Or maybe, to let it clearer, say: "if the place is at this same installation, let it empty. Otherwise, it can trigger the _ **too many redirects error** _.
Maybe is too articulated… It can be written simpler and shorter, but the intention, I think it is by this way.
Should we write some tag or maybe write a theme at some category, to make it know to the Discourse Team this should be done, if they think appropriate? Is there a ideas place or something like that?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [1 באוקטובר, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/8 "2019-10-01T16:27:25Z")
The best approach would probably be to fix the redirect issue so that entering the default URLs won’t break anything. I’ll move this topic to our #Contribute > UX category so that it doesn’t get lost.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [17 במרץ, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/9 "2024-03-17T16:13:50Z")
I hit this issue today. Maybe just add an admonition to the description to say to add it only if it’s different from the default.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [17 במרץ, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-handling-of-accidental-addition-of-default-tos-faq-privacy-to-tos-url-faq-url-privacy-url-admin-settings/129878/10 "2024-03-17T20:55:48Z")
Or Discourse could just handle the case. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to add the default URLs to these settings.