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Domain Change Redirection (15th Jan 10 at 10:51am UTC)
Lets say I change my domain to newsite.com from dancingwithross.com. So how can I get dancingwithross.com/index.php/pagetitle=nightclub to redirect to newsite.com/index.php/pagetitle=nightclub ? This I want to do because a login has to be done separately on both, and needing to change thousands of links to the new domain, so redirection would be easier.
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Re: Domain Change Redirection (15th Jan 10 at 11:29pm UTC)
<?php header("Location: http://newsite.com" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>
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Re: Domain Change Redirection (16th Jan 10 at 1:14am UTC)
Would this work, for say a PHPBB forum? Where both domains are tied to the same exact host?
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Re: Domain Change Redirection (16th Jan 10 at 2:03am UTC)
Posted By ashkir on 16th Jan 10 at 1:14am Would this work, for say a PHPBB forum? Where both domains are tied to the same exact host? The REQUEST_URI statement returns everything after (and including) the "/", so it will work for any page, provided that code snippet is on it. I know there's also a way to do it with .htaccess, but I'm not very good with that, so Ross will probably have to help you out with that.
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Re: Domain Change Redirection (16th Jan 10 at 3:49am UTC)
Posted By Marc on 15th Jan 10 at 11:29pm <?php header("Location: http://newsite.com" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?> Surely that'd constantly loop, an IF statement is required!
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Re: Domain Change Redirection (16th Jan 10 at 7:56pm UTC)
Posted By Michael on 16th Jan 10 at 3:49am Posted By Marc on 15th Jan 10 at 11:29pm <?php header("Location: http://newsite.com" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?> Surely that'd constantly loop, an IF statement is required! From what I understand, he will have two copies of the site. If he is running both sites off the exact same files, then yes, he will need an if statement. If I misunderstood, though, you would need this code: <?php if($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == "www.oldsite.com") { header("Location: http://newsite.com" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); } ?>
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Re: Domain Change Redirection (19th Jan 10 at 1:54pm UTC)
Posted By Marc on 16th Jan 10 at 7:56pm Posted By Michael on 16th Jan 10 at 3:49am Posted By Marc on 15th Jan 10 at 11:29pm <?php header("Location: http://newsite.com" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?> Surely that'd constantly loop, an IF statement is required! From what I understand, he will have two copies of the site. If he is running both sites off the exact same files, then yes, he will need an if statement. If I misunderstood, though, you would need this code: <?php if($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == "www.oldsite.com") { header("Location: http://newsite.com" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); } ?> That works! Thank's marc!
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