.htaccess and redirects - bit of php too...

Random

I'd like to be able to have someone type like www.icecentral.com/donations into their browser and have them redirected to www.icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=donations

I've tried this in .htaccess:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/donations$ http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=donations

and this:

http%3A%2F%2Ficecentral.com%2Fforum%2Fsiteindex.php%3Fgo%3Ddonations

But both give me 404 errors.

Any suggestions ?

fractal

In HTML:
<meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://myurl/"&gt;

in ASP:
Response.Redirect "http://myurl&quot;

in PHP:
header("Location: http://myurl");

Bear in mind if you do it serverside it must be the first think echo'd to the browser....

daymobrew

ciaranfo wrote:

I'd like to be able to have someone type like www.icecentral.com/donations into their browser and have them redirected to www.icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=donations

I modified my httpd.conf (Apache 1.3.33) and added:

Redirect /donations http://meserver.com/money/give.txt

and this worked as expected.
Do you really need the regex version (RedirectMatch) since you are matching a constant string?

Is mod_alias loaded? (run 'httpd -l' to list compiled in modules, httpd.conf will tell you which ones are loaded at runtime)
Does the access_log or error_log provide any additional information?

Random

Well, I managed to get this working.

Fyi the solution was pretty simple

Redirect /donations http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=donations

Cheers for the advice along the way

Random

Well, further problems now...



Bit odd, no? Suffice to say no cookies are blocked.

My code in my .htaccess is now:

Redirect /donations http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=donations

Redirect /servers http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=servers

Redirect /downloads http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=downloads

Redirect /forum http://icecentral.com/forum/index.php

Is any body else getting this error?
ANy advice ?

daymobrew

ciaranfo wrote:

Redirect /donations http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=donations

Redirect /servers http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=servers

Redirect /downloads http://icecentral.com/forum/siteindex.php?go=downloads

Redirect /forum http://icecentral.com/forum/index.php

Is any body else getting this error?
ANy advice ?

When I went to http://icecentral.com/donations it correctly redirected me to the 'go=donations' page. I am using Mozilla 1.4 on Solaris. Same result in Firefox 1.0.4 on Solaris.
I would expect the result to be the same on all browsers as the redirection is at the server end.

Is there any chance that the last redirect (/forum -> /forum/index.php) is causing a circular reference? That redirect might be best put in as a DirectoryIndex:

<Directory /filesystem/path/to/forum>
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

Random

Yeh, it turns out the /forum was causing an infinite loop or something. It's working fine without the /forum. cheers