RE: [PHP] Re-directing

ohhh... i thought he wanted to know how to do a simple redirect... not how to make 'start.php' the index... i agree it's an odd request. why not just name it 'index.php', or specify 'start.php' with apache? > -----Original Message----- > From: B. van Ouwerkerk [mailto:bvo@atz.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:58 PM > To: scott [gts] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Re-directing > > > At 14:56 16-5-01 -0400, you wrote: > >if you need to redirect a page, why not juse use > >header("Location: ./newurl.php"); ?? > > > >or, as was suggested, use the apache directive > >to do it for you if you have access to the > >config files... :) > > Nope. .htaccess can contain almost any directive which is found in the > httpd.conf file. It will even work with most ISP's :-) > > Meta refresh is a good idea too.. But I would consider javascript one of > the worst things possible. In my experience it's buggy and you need the > visitor to be so kind to enable javascript.. > > I wonder why the person who asked the question in the first place just > doesn't want to call his start.php (or whatever de name is) index.php .. oh > well probably a M$ lover. > > Bye, > > > B. >