Re: Header Redirect

What about using .htaccess for redirection for example, to redirect a single page: Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote: CC: PHP General List <php-general@lists.php.net> From: Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> To: Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:04:02 +0100 Subject: Re: [PHP] Header Redirect On 27 May 2008, at 17:54, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:10 +0100, Stut wrote: >> On 27 May 2008, at 17:06, Yui Hiroaki wrote: >>> I would like to have some question. >>> >>> For example, >>> I am in http://example.com/?12324242 >>> >>> I would like to REDIRECT from >>> http://example.com/?1312323232 >>> to http://example.com/ >>> >>> I can REDIRECT from http://example.com/index.php to >>> http://example.com >>> >>> >>> Please do tell me how I can redirect! >>> >>> >>> This is the sample what I test below! >>> >>> >>> if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/index.php') { >>> header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); >>> header("Location: http:///example.com/"); >>> exit(); >>> } >>> ?> >> >> 1) Why? Redirects should be avoided where possible for performance >> reasons. > > Didn't this topic get covered several months back. I always do > redirects > so as not to bugger browser history, titles, indexing, etc. If someone > requests a page and they need to be logged in, I redirect to the login > page, I never just present the login page... that's just incorrect > from Personally I tend to only use redirects when a form handler has done it's job to avoid evil messages when the user hits back. However, I have used both redirected and non-redirected login workflows in the past for various reasons, and I don't believe there is a "standard" way to do it. It depends on how the site will be used and by whom. > a hierarchical and semantic point of view. Similarly, if I'm doing 404 > handling with fuzzy request sniffing to determine what was actually > requested, I again perform a redirect once I've ascertained what was > probably desired. If you don't, then Google and other search engines > will index these malformed URLs instead of the correct URL. The correct response to a 404 page is 404. No arguments. If you redirect missing pages then your site effectively contains an infinite number of pages. By all means display a useful page when you return your 404 but not marking it as a missing page does little if anything for your SEO rank and absolutely nothing for your users. IMHO if you're going to use a semantic argument to defend one point you need to carry that attitude throughout. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php