Question about ReDirecting link...

**rapid564** · 15 Oct 2006, 11:28 PM

if you don't want to move all your file into the root directory you can possibly do somethins like the example below

I you want to completely get rid of the old site you can create a index.php in your old store root directory and place the the following code on top of the index.php file before any html code.
<?PHP
header('Location: http://www.xyz.com/shop');

?>

so whenever your customer visit the old link www.xyz.com/store, it will redirect them to the new store www.xyz.com/shop.

**Forum5** · 16 Oct 2006, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by rapid564

if you don't want to move all your file into the root directory you can possibly do somethins like the example below

I you want to completely get rid of the old site you can create a index.php in your old store root directory and place the the following code on top of the index.php file before any html code.
<?PHP
header('Location: http://www.xyz.com/shop');

?>

so whenever your customer visit the old link www.xyz.com/store, it will redirect them to the new store www.xyz.com/shop.

One other possibility:
I know this is a rather old thread but the answer may be of help to someone else.

Put a new index.html at the root. In the header place this redirect:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.xyz.com/shop/">
<title>XYZ Index Page</title>

The "REFRESH" will cause the new URL to be called. The 'Content="0;" is the timer. zero is now, 5 = 5 seconds, etc.

**samad64** · 16 Oct 2006, 02:57 AM

Forum5,

Though your way is a valid way of doing it, it breaks the back button. http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

with the PHP location setup.. you can still click back and go to the page you were previously viewing. With yours, it would go back to the page that refreshes.. and the user would be redirected to the store. Eventually they'll just get annoyed and leave.. you never know where the customer was previously at.. maybe they were at a page that said "you can buy this product here: yourstoreURL.com"

**Forum5** · 16 Oct 2006, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by getyourgameshere.com

Forum5,

Though your way is a valid way of doing it, it breaks the back button. http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

with the PHP location setup.. you can still click back and go to the page you were previously viewing. With yours, it would go back to the page that refreshes.. and the user would be redirected to the store. Eventually they'll just get annoyed and leave.. you never know where the customer was previously at.. maybe they were at a page that said "you can buy this product here: yourstoreURL.com"

You are absolutely correct. There is no go-back.

Originally Posted by LyttonFinds

Okay I have www.thaddkrick.com .. which says "coming soon" default by godaddy...

I've loaded zencart and you have to type www.thaddkrick.com/catalog to get to the zencart store.

Now.. how do I set it up to when someone enters www.thaddkrick.com it goes directly to the zencart store???

I read the question as to avoid the "Coming Soon" page which was default by GoDaddy and go directly to the catalog. Going back to "Coming Soon" didn't seem to be an issue.

I've seen many root pages with a store or forum on one of the links where the user may want to go-back to root. Oh, well. It was just a thought I had.

**samad64** · 16 Oct 2006, 03:49 AM

well, with the php version it wouldn't go back to the coming soon page :).

For example, if you're on google.com and visit my website (http://www.getyourgameshere.com) ... it will forward you to the /store/ directory. When you click back.. it'll take you right back to google.com.. not to getyourgameshere.com/ .

The meta-refresh method would take you back to getyourgameshere.com/ , which in turn would lead you right back to /store/

I understand where you're coming from though.. and believe me if I hadn't started using php I would have stuck with the HTTP refresh until someone else pointed me elsewhere :)

**LyttonFinds** · 16 Oct 2006, 04:46 AM

I went the redirect link way on the index.html with it set to "0" and that worked great! Thank you all for your help. I'm sure i'll be posting more questions. LOL

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