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  • Bruce A. Julseth
    #1

    Redirect home page

    I have a "new" homepage. How do I automatically direct clients to this new
    home page, i.e. when clients enter "OldHomePage.ph p", they will
    automatically be directed to "NewHomePage.ph p."

    Thanks......

    Bruce


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    • Douglas Abernathy
      #2
      Re: Redirect home page


      "Bruce A. Julseth" <bruceaj@attglo bal.net> wrote in message
      news:3f989d87_3 @news1.prserv.n et...[color=blue]
      > I have a "new" homepage. How do I automatically direct clients to this new
      > home page, i.e. when clients enter "OldHomePage.ph p", they will
      > automatically be directed to "NewHomePage.ph p."
      >
      > Thanks......
      >
      > Bruce
      >
      >[/color]

      You need to use the "header" function to send an HTML header line, which
      only works if it is sent prior to ANY HTML markup (even a space character in
      the wrong place will trigger an error).

      File "OldHomePage.ph p":
      <?php
      header("Locatio n: NewHomePage.php ");
      ?>

      Note the presence of a space character between the colon and the file name
      of the new file
      Douglas Abernathy


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        • Dave Bell
          #3
          Re: Redirect home page

          You can use a javascript function that will do this with a timeout, you
          can then display a message if you wished.

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            • Jim Moseby
              #4
              Re: Redirect home page

              "Bruce A. Julseth" <bruceaj@attglo bal.net> wrote in message
              news:3f989d87_3 @news1.prserv.n et...[color=blue]
              > I have a "new" homepage. How do I automatically direct clients to this new
              > home page, i.e. when clients enter "OldHomePage.ph p", they will
              > automatically be directed to "NewHomePage.ph p."
              >
              > Thanks......
              >
              > Bruce[/color]


              Put this anywhere in your PHP on the old page, change content= to the number
              of seconds you want to wait before redirecting.:

              echo "<META http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
              URL=http://www.yournewpage .com'>";


              HTH - JM


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                • Jim Moseby
                  #5
                  Re: Redirect home page

                  "Jim Moseby" <nospam@dontspa m.me> wrote in message
                  news:vPednexwfL 0QgQSiU-KYvA@giganews.c om...[color=blue]
                  > "Bruce A. Julseth" <bruceaj@attglo bal.net> wrote in message
                  > news:3f989d87_3 @news1.prserv.n et...[color=green]
                  > > I have a "new" homepage. How do I automatically direct clients to this[/color][/color]
                  new[color=blue][color=green]
                  > > home page, i.e. when clients enter "OldHomePage.ph p", they will
                  > > automatically be directed to "NewHomePage.ph p."
                  > >
                  > > Thanks......
                  > >
                  > > Bruce[/color]
                  >
                  >
                  > Put this anywhere in your PHP on the old page, change content= to the[/color]
                  number[color=blue]
                  > of seconds you want to wait before redirecting.:
                  >
                  > echo "<META http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
                  > URL=http://www.yournewpage .com'>";
                  >
                  >
                  > HTH - JM[/color]

                  Correction, this needs to appear in between the <head> </head> tags in the
                  HTML.

                  JM



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                    • John Dunlop
                      #6
                      Re: Redirect home page

                      Douglas Abernathy wrote:
                      [color=blue]
                      > You need to use the "header" function to send an HTML header line,[/color]

                      s/HTML header line/HTTP header/
                      [color=blue]
                      > which only works if it is sent prior to ANY HTML markup (even a space
                      > character in the wrong place will trigger an error).[/color]

                      s/ANY HTML markup/any output/
                      [color=blue]
                      > File "OldHomePage.ph p":
                      > <?php
                      > header("Locatio n: NewHomePage.php ");
                      > ?>[/color]

                      The Location header field value must be "a single absolute URI"
                      (RFC2616, sec. 14.30), support for relative URIs notwithstanding .
                      [color=blue]
                      > Note the presence of a space character between the colon and the file name
                      > of the new file[/color]

                      That space character isn't mandatory (RFC2616, sec. 4.2), although
                      it is "preferred" , and such usage is well-established insofar as
                      it's been adopted by the HTTP standard itself. In fact, any amount
                      of linear white space (LWS) is permitted before a header field
                      value. However, semantically speaking, all LWS is equivalent to a
                      single space (RFC2616, sec. 2.2).

                      Just for completeness:

                      CR = <US-ASCII CR, carriage return (13)>
                      LF = <US-ASCII LF, linefeed (10)>
                      SP = <US-ASCII SP, space (32)>
                      HT = <US-ASCII HT, horizontal-tab (9)>
                      CRLF = CR LF
                      LWS = [CRLF] 1*( SP | HT )

                      Elucidating for the ABNF-challenged amongst us, LWS translates to:
                      an optional carriage-return linefeed sequence, aka "end-of-line
                      marker", followed by one or more spaces or horizontal-tabs.

                      --
                      Jock

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                        • John Dunlop
                          #7
                          Re: Redirect home page

                          Dave Bell wrote:
                          [color=blue]
                          > You can use a javascript function that will do this with a timeout,[/color]

                          Do what?

                          Anyhow, what if Javascript isn't available or enabled? What if the
                          "timeout" doesn't give users time to read and process the
                          information you'll assumably present to them?
                          [color=blue]
                          > you can then display a message if you wished.[/color]

                          A good point.

                          If you wish to tell users something, such as informing them about
                          the new URL, then providing a message and a link to the new
                          document is sufficient; indeed, this method greatly surpasses
                          sufficiency -- it is superior.

                          --
                          Jock

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                            • John Dunlop
                              #8
                              Re: Redirect home page

                              Jim Moseby wrote:
                              [color=blue]
                              > echo "<META http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
                              > URL=http://www.yournewpage .com'>";[/color]

                              Contextually, employing such a pseudo redirect is irresponsible.
                              The world shall be a better place when mainstream browsers allow
                              users to seamlessly follow veritable redirects whilst ignoring
                              those bogosities.

                              ObPHP: seeing as there're no variables or escape sequences, your
                              string ought to be quoted with single-quotes, if you really must
                              echo it at all.

                              --
                              Jock

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                                • The Graphical Gnome
                                  #9
                                  Re: Redirect home page

                                  On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:41:01 -0400, Jim Moseby wrote:
                                  [color=blue]
                                  >
                                  > echo "<META http-equiv='refresh' content='0;
                                  > URL=http://www.yournewpage .com'>";
                                  >[/color]
                                  If you have a delay of zero seconds as you are seeing more and more on teh
                                  net. It will give the user a hard time using the BACK option on the
                                  browser.

                                  Never use this F&*&^ posibility.


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