Directing All Urls In A Direcrory To One (Something like a 404 page)

[peroim 0]

Is it possible to redirect all possible urls to one page?
So that if you would go to http://ww38.yoursite.com/dir/(and then a file name) this would automaticly go to http://ww38.yoursite.com/dir/index.php ? Something like a 404 page?

Thanks,

Peroim

[BuffaloHelp 24]

I'm not sure what you really want to achieve, but here are few examples.

 

You can use META refresh tag to redirect a file to another location/file

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://website">

where "2" represents the time in seconds and "url" is the location you want to send. This is a good method to direct a file that is no longer existing to keep your search engine from dropping you.

 

You can use HEADER tag in PHP

<?phpheader("Location: example.com/;; /* Redirect browser *//* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */exit;?>

This is better way to deal with redirecting traffic since you can tell this script to point to 404 error message

<?phpheader("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");?>

Creating your own customized 404 and 403 error message would be the best way since any missing file/directory can be redirected to the location of your choosing by suing any of the examples above as your 404/403 page.

 

A suggestion would be that if you had domain1.org/folder1 that needs to be redirected to domain1.org/folder2 or domain1.org/file.html etc, make an index file with either of two codes above and place it under domain1.org/folder1/index so that any traffic that goes to folder1 would be redirected. If you want to redirect any missing file or folder to one location, use custom 404/403 error page and modify your .htaccess

[electriic ink 1]

Try this; it should work. Put this code in the .htaccess file in the directory concerned:

 

Redirect 301 /this_directorys_name/ yoursite.com/anypage.php

This redirects all files in /this_directorys_name/ to http://ww38.yoursite.com/anypage.php.

[peroim 0]

Thanks Buffalo & Electriic.Buffalo, your code codes are v?ry usefull if you want to redirect one page to another, but I need Electriic's solution, because I want to redirect every possible filename to another page.