Comments on: Redirecting Question

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:32:28 +0000

Cheers guys, good ideas all.

And I’m flattered that you think I’d know how to do it in PHP or Javascript!

Can’t do anything with this until this evening or, more likely, Sunday…

By: izb

izb — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:26:44 +0000

The inelegant sledgehammer solution (if all else fails) would be to put some javascript in the 404 page and redirect using that by substituting the domain if it spots a wrong ‘un.

I know. Eww.

By: Hg

Hg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:37:39 +0000

Bugger, WordPress has sanitised my input. It’s all correct except that the “1.php” in the second line should have a dollar symbol immediately preceding it (i.e. after the forward-slash).

Let me know if it works!

By: Hg

Hg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:35:44 +0000

I don’t have an easy way of testing this myself, but if it was me this is what I’d be trying first:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?gordonmclean\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/$1.php [R=301,L]

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:30:03 +0000

If you’re struggling to get .htaccess to cooperate, maybe you could simplify things. Why not use a PHP document as the 404 page, and then put the logic behind the redirection in the PHP. Maybe even a cunning regular expression. Make sense? I’m not so great at expressing myself this early in the day.