Redirect in PHP [.htaccess like Redirection]

Question

I have changed my blog url. (I know .htaccess can do this)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://my-new-website.com/$1 [R=301]

but I can't use .htaccess now (personal reasons.. I can use only PHP now)

I want to use a PHP code to do that.

I want to redirect

http://my-old-website.com/v/test/new.html

To

http://my-new-website.com/v/test/new.html

I have searched a lot online, and looked for more similar questions on stackoverflow, but I didn't find any question like this

look into a meta refresh, javascript redirect or a `header` call from PHP — Sterling Archer, Jul 29 '14 at 18:25
This should be what you're looking for. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/768431/how-to-make-a-redirect-in-php — ronnockoch, Jul 29 '14 at 18:28
@SterlingArcher i will the php file in my old website (my-old-website.com) and i want to redirect it to my new website... if the url is a.com/post-one.html it should redirect to b.com/post-one.html ONLY DOMIAN NAME SHOULD BE CHANGED (a,b are old and new sites respectively..) SO JAVA SCRIPT MIGHT NOT WORK :( — user3888863, Jul 29 '14 at 18:30
@SterlingArcher sorry :D :) thanks a lot .. i was a bit tensed ;) sorry again :) — user3888863, Jul 29 '14 at 18:33
No worries I was mostly joking. That's my "generic response" to caps lock sentences :P — Sterling Archer, Jul 29 '14 at 18:34
if you want a ten second delay **on the client** how do you expect to do this **on the server?** — rlemon, Jul 29 '14 at 18:35
@rlemon ok.. no need any delay... just need that redirection :) :( .... but thanks for the comment :) — user3888863, Jul 29 '14 at 18:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '14 at 19:18

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Just use a Location header.

header('Location: http://my-new-website.com' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
header('Content-Type: text/html');
die('I have moved to my-new-website.com'); // for ancient browsers

answered Jul 29 '14 at 19:18

jornane

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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PHP has the header function to set custom headers. All you have to do is set the 'refresh' to a different page.

header('Refresh:10;url=newwebsite.php' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

Page redirect after certain time PHP

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Jul 29 '14 at 18:27

Nick Tucci

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i will the php file in my old website (my-old-website.com) and i want to redirect it to my new website... if the url is `a.com/post-one.html` it should redirect to `b.com/post-one.html` ONLY DOMIAN NAME SHOULD BE CHANGED (a,b are old and new sites respectively..) – user3888863 Jul 29 '14 at 18:29
I don't understand your problem. Just change 'newwebsite.php' to 'b.com/post-one.html'. – Nick Tucci Jul 29 '14 at 18:30
not only that URL... if it is `a.com/post-two.html` them it should redirect to `b.com/post-two.html` like that there are many pages :( .... got me ? :( – user3888863 Jul 29 '14 at 18:32
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i think it won't change the domain name to `a.com` to `b.com` :/ :( – user3888863 Jul 29 '14 at 18:45

chresse · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-29T19:47:32.637

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you can do it with setting the Location header. The following will add the given $_GET parameters to and append them to the URL too:

$newUrl = "http://my-new-website.com/";
$currentPage = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
//building the querystrging (if some GET variables where set):
$queryString = "";
if(count($_GET)) > 0) {
    $queryString = "?" . http_build_query($_GET);
} 

//set the header to redirect:
header('Location:'.$newUrl.$currentPage.$queryString);

ie: redirects http://example.com/v/file1.php?key1=val1&key2=val2 to http://my-new-website.com/v/file1.php?key1=val1&key2=val2

edited Jul 29 '14 at 19:47

answered Jul 29 '14 at 18:47

chresse

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and the same code will work for `my-old-website.com.com/post-one.php` TO `my-new-website.com/post-one.php` right ? (the imporatnt thing is it should just change the domian name in url and keep the whole URL as same... and redirect..) – user3888863 Jul 29 '14 at 18:56
What kind of header is that? – PeeHaa Jul 29 '14 at 19:03
What does `$firstRun` do? – PeeHaa Jul 29 '14 at 19:04
@PeeHaa: `$firstRun` ensures that the first GET parameter will apended by `?` and the others with `&` – chresse Jul 29 '14 at 19:19
Yeah that was my first guess however your code tells me something different. – PeeHaa Jul 29 '14 at 19:23
@PeeHaa: sry. i forget to change it. was that your problem? – chresse Jul 29 '14 at 19:24
If there is no query string in the original URL OP now has a free `?` – PeeHaa Jul 29 '14 at 19:28
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Also all that work when PHP offers http://php.net/manual/en/function.http-build-query.php – PeeHaa Jul 29 '14 at 19:29
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@PeeHaa: thanks for the hint with the `http_build_query` function. i didn't know that. the free `?` at the end if no parameters were set shouldn't be a big problem. but i changed it... – chresse Jul 29 '14 at 19:35

Redirect in PHP [.htaccess like Redirection]

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