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Francesco Chiari
Francesco Chiari

Reputation: 39

Is there a way to redirect without changing url?

I want to redirect my users to 

www.spredt.com/404

But still having the url look the same as they typed it in the first place.

For example is someone entered www.spredt.com/93817218 and that page doesn't exist in my directory it will redirect them but it will change the url to www.spredt.com/404

I want the same /93817218 to stay unchanged in the url but still redirect them to the error document 404.

Right now I'm handling redirection with the .htaccess file.

ErrorDocument 500 https://www.spredt.com/500
ErrorDocument 404 https://www.spredt.com/404
ErrorDocument 403 https://www.spredt.com/403

But this changes the url.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2039

Answers (1)

Gazouu
Gazouu

Reputation: 382

I presume that you are redirecting your user in the 404 endpoint. But you can just return the 404 page template when they enter a false url, and not redirect them. The url will stay the same and they will see your 404 page.

I can't provide more detail because I don't have your code nor the langage.

EDIT :

In PHP you can do that to redirect and stay on the same URL : 

include('http://www.spredt.com/404');
exit();

I can't test it right now, but it should work.

Source : https://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/545026-redirect-without-changing-address-your-browser

Upvotes: 2

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