Too Many Redirects when accessing non laravel files

i am new to laravel and using version 5.0.16. I have just added new phpfiles not necessarily part of the same laravel mvc framework..i get this error when attempting to access the files:

redirected you too many times.

they are stored under my 'public_html' folder

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