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02-17-2007, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Kirth

You can also use javascript:

PHP Code:


			
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// author: Kirth
// description: redirects to where you want!
// necessary mods: change the '/forum' to where you want it to go to (I did it for you
window.location="/wordpress";

//-->
</script>
<head> 
<title>Redirecting please wait...</title>
</head>
<body>
Hi there! Please wait while we redirect you!
</body>
</html>

Not the best of idea as some people may have JS disabled...

02-26-2007, 01:20 AM

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Another option is with javascript. window.location=""

02-26-2007, 02:11 AM

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PHP is the best option - Javascript and Meta redirects will load the page first and then visibly redirect to the new page - that is, if the user looked through their browsing history afterwards, they'd see the redirect page and the page they wanted. A PHP redirect works through the headers so it's completely invisible to the end user - so in the history only the page the user wanted would show up.

02-26-2007, 08:12 PM

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PHP is not the best option, that requires your server to fire up the PHP engine each time the redirect occurs. Using htaccess (or httpd.conf) would be the better choice by far.

02-26-2007, 09:19 PM

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Redirecting from the web server is the best option, not redirecting from a module installed on the web server. This takes up less resources and if I'm not corrected, a very small amount of bandwidth will be kept from this

JavaScript is a bad option. A lot of the users here will probably have JS enabled because they are designers and such and won't be up for using text-based browsers. In the interest of accessibility, Internet Explorer uses who turn off scripting and other users who don't like client-side scripting enabled, you should avoid using JavaScript where you can.

The same goes for Meta Refreshing. The page has to first be loaded, and if you come across a user with a strict browser, it may not render the page properly without making it HTML/XHTML compliant. This would be even more of a waste of bandwidth, server resources and because users would have to wait for the page to load, resources, bandwidth and time of your users.

Assuming you're buying from a clever server host using Apache, then the following would just be slapped into the .htaccess file in your root folder:

Code:

DirectoryIndex /wordpress/index.php

This actually sets the directory's index page to the directory you've stored your wordpress blog in

It's not a redirect as such, but I didn't think being correct with HTTP headers would be very significant. If you want to be correct on this, in the same file you would have put the above in, put:

Code:

Redirect permanent /index.html /wordpress/

Just create a file called index.html, leave it blank, put it in the root directory, the above in .htaccess in the root directory and you're laughing.

(Sorry for jabbering on)

02-26-2007, 09:46 PM

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I would agree.. .htaccess is the best way.

You know the other ways.. Maybe a PHP and a Javascript.. Then you will suit both audiences.

02-27-2007, 01:50 AM

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I only say PHP is the best option because mod_rewrite isn't always installed (or enabled) on servers and if you're on shared hosting it's generally difficult to get it enabled. PHP is available almost universally.