So, I need to set custom URLs so that
goes to:
http://example.com/dynamic.php
I know this is a pretty simple operation but after some googling, I can't find the answer. What is the simplest method for handling something like this?
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You need write rules in .htaccessShakti Singh– Shakti Singh2011-01-22 13:31:40 +00:00Commented Jan 22, 2011 at 13:31
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See also stackoverflow.com/questions/3631153/…Gumbo– Gumbo2011-01-22 13:44:16 +00:00Commented Jan 22, 2011 at 13:44
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you have to do it using url rewriting. that depends on the web server that you are using . for example, you can use .htaccess if your webserver is Apache. Apache URL Rewriting.
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The regular expression for that would be something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ $1.php [L]
Running the regex on the left will return "dynamic/" or "dynamic" if the forward slash is not included. Then it will replace what was captured in the first parenthesized block ("dynamic/") with dynamic.php.
You can try your URL rewrites here:
And your general regex here:
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Aram Kocharyan
perhaps a better regex is ([^/]+)/*?$ because it will account for multiple forward slashes at the end, but I don't know if the server will keep them there :P
There's several methods of achieving this:-
- URL Rewrite (append to .htaccess file on server in /dynamic/ directory)
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ dynamic.php
- Creating a dummy index.htm/.html/.php file in root folder ie. /dynamic/
if HTML, use the following javascript:-
<script type="text/javascript"> window.location = "http://example.com/dynamic.php" </script> <script type="text/javascript"> location.href='http://example.com/dynamic.php'; </script> <script type="text/javascript"> location.replace('http://example.com/dynamic.php'); </script>
However, if using PHP instead (recommended), include the following:-
header("Location: http://example.com/dynamic.php");
Remember to use ob_start(), ob_end_flush() to fix the output buffer, if you get the error that the headers are already sent and you can't modify the header information.
Hope this helps.
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Aram Kocharyan
The regex ^$ doesn't return anything because you're saying: find me the starting character followed by the end character. That would give you nothing, because it is effectively a blank string. Also, you wouldn't want to replace it with dynamic.php because this is a rewrite, and unless all the pages on your site go to dynamic.php, it wouldn't make sense. Good info for php headers though. Also, there are meta tags to redirect, but this wouldn't be rewriting.
Aram Kocharyan
although putting that in /dynamic will work for this special case, I think a global .htaccess will be far better than one in every folder. That way you can ensure that further directories will also work just fine.