About to move a SMF to RedFox

[Tanzy]

I'm moving a SMF over to be hosted on RedFox tonight and was wondering if anyone had a bit of PHP code that I could use to replace the index page with on the old site.

Basically, what I'm after is when they go to

www.domainA.me.uk/index.php?action=unread

or version of eg ?topic=1123

I'm after the index page to redirect them to

www.domainA.co.uk/index.php?action=unread

once the forum has been moved over, I will be making domainA.me.uk to be an alias of domainA.co.uk so it is a temp measure while name servers change etc.

Cheers

[RFH Reseller: SKILLIT]

Don't use PHP myself but try:

header("Location: http://someurl.com");

I see a note that that nothing must preceed this.

[That I found with a search: php response redirect]

[Tanzy]

it is one of those things that I could do without any problem in .Net etc. However, I do not know PHP. The main problem is that I want to keep the query arguments after the page name.

[RFH Reseller: SKILLIT]

Some suggestion here : http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/13350.htm


Note the piece about $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']

[Tanzy]

Cheers mate, spot on.

[RFH Reseller: nick]

You could try something like this:

if(!preg_match('/^www\.domaina\.co\.uk$/',$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
    header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
    if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']){     
        header('Location: http://www.domaina.co.uk'.$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'].'?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
    } else {
        header('Location: http://www.domaina.co.uk'.$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
    }
    exit();
} 

[Tanzy]

Cheers Nick

What does

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

do?

[RFH Reseller: nick]

That will add the path of the script, in this case: /index.php. You could write it in manually.