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phpapache.htaccesshttp-redirectwamp
P R
P R

Reputation: 56

How to redirect in a php project running in localhost?

Suppose i have a link generated in php:

http://localhost/Example/www.someDomain.com

now i would like to go to www.someDomain.com , can you please help me with the proper method (probably via .htaccess) to redirect to desired location.

I tried using php header function and js window.location.replace(" ") but it dint' helped.

***Problem with window.location.replace("www.someDomain.com") is that instead of redirectng to www.someDomain.com , the page redirects to http://localhost/www.someDomain.com

I am using Wamp server if it helps. Help please and also suggest some nice resource to study about .htaccess Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1630

Answers (3)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143846

htaccess is NOT going to help you at all. If all your links look like: http://localhost/... then in order for htaccess to redirect, everyone who goes to your site would have to be running a webserver on their local machine and have an htaccess file that redirects to your site.

You need to fix your php scripts so they generate the correct hostname. Using javascript to redirect isn't even a viable solution, because in order for the location to be "localhost", they're already loading no content because they're trying to connect to their own machine.

If for whatever crazy reason you can't fix your scripts, you may have to look into using mod_proxy_html on your site and dynamically change all your "localhost" to your domain.

Upvotes: 0

ivanfromer
ivanfromer

Reputation: 329

If I understood.

you need to put te entire URL with "http://".

Javascript:

<script>
window.location.href=("URL");
</script>

OR in php:

<?php
header("location:$redirect");
?>

Upvotes: 1

paulodiovani
paulodiovani

Reputation: 1295

You can use window.location or PHP header() function, but for redirect to another site must prefix with http://.

header("Location: http://www.example.com");

You can also do the same through Apache .htaccess with a Redirect rule.

Upvotes: 0

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