Comments on: Apache Redirects

By: geek ramblings

geek ramblings — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:18:04 +0000

RedirectionI mentioned earlier that I have converted my site to WordPress, and set up link redirection for the old links. There’s some discussion going on over at Alex’s site about this subject as well. I figured I’d put up some notes about what I did.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:16:44 +0000

Ahh, then yes, the redirect would make sense.

There is probably a way to do it in the .htaccess file, but I don’t know it yet so I’ll tell you how to do it in PHP.

Create a file like this:

<?php ob_start(); // buffer any error message @header('Location: index.php'.$_REQUEST["QUERY_STRING"]); ob_end_clean(); ?>

and replace your b2.php file with it.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:04:56 +0000

Well I have, but I found that I get a lot of hits to b2.php still! So really I just want to redirect people from b2.php to index.php with the parameters intact.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:02:11 +0000

I don’t - I use my main site template and just integrated the loops in where I wanted them. Why not just rename b2.php to index.php?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:54:02 +0000

Do you redirect b2.php to index.php? How would you do that? I’ve been playing around with it a bit, but have so far not been able to make it work.

I want to make sure that it passes any parameters to the new link.