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vemoxy
vemoxy

Reputation: 1035

PHP header(Location: ...): Force URL change in address bar

I'm currently working on a mobile site with authentication using PHP sessions with a database. I have a login page with a form that goes to server_login.php on submit. The php file then creates some session data (store in $_SESSION), and redirects the user back to the index page:

header("location:../../index.php");

The new web page (index.php) loads correctly; however, when the header redirects the page, the URL at the address bar is not changed; it stays at *http://localhost/php/server/server_login.php* instead of http://localhost/index.php and thus all my other resources that makes use of relative pathing could not be loaded. It's as if the web page still thinks that it resides at /php/server instead of /.

Strangely, my other use of header("location: ...") at logout.php works and redirects the page successfully with a URL change.

I've made sure that there are no outputs in my *server_login.php* before the header redirect (above it are just mysql calls to check) and I've used ob_start() and ob_end_flush() too.

Are there any methods of forcing the URL on the address bar to change (and thus hopefully fix the relative path problem)? Or am I doing something wrong?

P/S: I am using jQuery Mobile.

EDIT: Here's my code for the redirection that doesn't change the URL:

// some other stuff not shown


$sql = "SELECT * FROM $user_table WHERE email = '$myemail' AND password = '$mypassword'";
$login_result = mysql_query($sql, $connection);

$count = mysql_num_rows($login_result);

if ($count == 1) {

    // Successfully verified login information

    session_start();

    if (!isset($_SESSION['is_logged_in'])) {
        $_SESSION['is_logged_in'] = 1;
    }

    if (!isset($_SESSION['email'])) {
        $_SESSION['email'] = $myemail;
    }
    if (!isset($_SESSION['password'])) {
        $_SESSION['password'] = $mypassword;
    }

    // Register user's name and ID
    if ((!isset($_SESSION['name'])) && (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])))  {
        $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login_result);
        $_SESSION['name'] = $row['name'];
        $_SESSION['user_id'] = $row['user_id'];
    }

    header("Location: http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/index.php");

} else {
    // Not logged in. Redirect back to login page
    header("Location: http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/php/login.php?err=1");

}

Upvotes: 82

Views: 1094023

Answers (15)

Pooja Choudhary
Pooja Choudhary

Reputation: 180

Add exit at the end of header then it will work

header("location:index.php"); or header('location:index.php'); exit;

Upvotes: 2

Hasib Omi
Hasib Omi

Reputation: 151

Do not use any white space. I had the same issue. Then I removed white space like:

header("location:index.php"); or header('location:index.php');

Then it worked.

Upvotes: 15

shlgug
shlgug

Reputation: 1356

As "cfphpflex" suggested you can add break; after setting the header. You can also echo something, such as echo 'test';.

Upvotes: 1

kackleyjm
kackleyjm

Reputation: 595

In your form element add data-ajax="false". I had the same problem using jquery mobile.

Upvotes: 19

cfphpflex
cfphpflex

Reputation: 603

you may want to put a break; after your location:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header('Location:  '.  $YourArrayName["YourURL"]  );
break;

Upvotes: 9

Gulim Shah
Gulim Shah

Reputation: 194

// Register user's name and ID

if ((!isset($_SESSION['name'])) && (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])))  {
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login_result);
    $_SESSION['name'] = $row['name'];
    $_SESSION['user_id'] = $row['user_id'];
}

header("Location: http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/index.php");

change to

// Register user's name and ID

if ((!isset($_SESSION['name'])) && (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])))  {
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login_result);
    $_SESSION['name'] = $row['name'];
    $_SESSION['user_id'] = $row['user_id'];
header("Location: http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/index.php");
}

Upvotes: 1

aary trivedi
aary trivedi

Reputation: 77

Just change home to your liking

$home_url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/home';

header('Location: ' . $home_url);

Upvotes: 2

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 11

use

header("Location: index.php"); //this work in my site

read more on header() at php documentation.

Upvotes: -3

Jomar Delfin
Jomar Delfin

Reputation: 23

I got a solution for you, Why dont you rather use Explode if your url is something like

Url-> website.com/test/blog.php

$StringExplo=explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$HeadTo=$StringExplo[0]."/Index.php";
Header("Location: ".$HeadTo);

Upvotes: 1

Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour

Reputation: 842

Are you sure the page you are redirecting too doesn't have a redirection within that if no session data is found? That could be your problem

Also yes always add whitespace like @Peter O suggested.

Upvotes: 2

faoud
faoud

Reputation: 1

You are suppose to use it like header(Location:../index.php) if it in another folder

Upvotes: -3

Hamza Trabelsi
Hamza Trabelsi

Reputation: 1

why all of this location url? 

http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/index.php

you can just use 

index.php

if the php files are in the same folder and this is better because if you want to host the files or change the port you will have no problem reaching this URL.

Upvotes: -7

schneck
schneck

Reputation: 10827

Well, if the server sends a correct redirection header, the browser redirects and therefore "changes the url". It might be a browser issue, then. I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but you should not send a relative url in the location header ("HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to » Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. ", http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php), and "location" must be capitalized, like:

header('Location: http://myhost.com/mypage.php');

Upvotes: 49

BuraCULa
BuraCULa

Reputation: 961

Try changing:

header("Location : blabla")
                ^
                |
           (whitespace)

To

header("Location: blabla")

Upvotes: 96

Hadi
Hadi

Reputation: 91

I had the same problem with posting a form. What I did was that turning off the data-ajax.

Upvotes: 7

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