Cannot remove 301 redirect

Question

I stupidly did a 301 redirect on websiteA.com to websiteB.com. After removing it from the .htaccess file the redirect is still in operation. I tried from outside the local n

Answer 1

The browser caches the 301 Moved Permanently, until told otherwise. It is default behavior: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2.

To fix it in IE9:

1. Open IE9 and press Ctrl+Shift+P for private browsing
2. Navigate to the problem URL
3. Then go back to normal browsing and all should be fine again