Redirect from php file to a local HTML file

Asked Apr 25 '19 at 09:57

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From a php file I want to redirect to a specific local html file.

I tried the following:

echo "<script type='text/javascript'> 
window.location.href='file://C:/DescMan/abc.html';</script>";

with no success. Don't have an error, only a white page with my localhost php address.

Also I tried:

header('Location: file://C:/DescMan/abc.html');

header('Content-Disposition: filename="abc.html"');readfile("C:/DescMan/abc.html");

echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0'; url='C:/DescMan/abc.html'/>";

What I'm doing wrong?

asked Apr 25 '19 at 09:57

BOB

By local, do you mean a html file that is not actually stored under your DocumentRoot folder? – RiggsFolly Apr 25 '19 at 10:00
For redirect, you need to URL not file path. – R P Apr 25 '19 at 10:00
Always place an `exit` after a header redirect, otherwise the script continues. – martinstoeckli Apr 25 '19 at 10:00
Why not just print the file's content in php? `echo file_get_contents(...)` – hindmost Apr 25 '19 at 10:01
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14052473/go-to-local-url-with-javascript – Danyal Sandeelo Apr 25 '19 at 10:02
Your 2nd attempt is promising but you can't have a `header('Location:...)` and a `readfile` you should just keep the `readfile` and nothing else – apokryfos Apr 25 '19 at 10:03
@RiggsFolly Yes – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:06
@RP I tried...not working – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:07
@martinstoeckli I have exit after header... – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:07
@hindmost Because I want to redirect, no to print.... – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:08
@DanyalSandeelo Doesn't work – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:08
@apokryfos I tried, doesn't work – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:09
Why would you want to redirect to a page that is not stored on your server? – RiggsFolly Apr 25 '19 at 10:14
@RiggsFolly Why do you need this info? – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:16
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To decide if it is worth pursueing a solution, or if the premise is so wrong I should just ignore it – RiggsFolly Apr 25 '19 at 10:18
@RiggsFolly Ok. So when I press a button in `abc.html` is redirected in `z.php` page witch automatically download some info from database. After downloading is finished I want to redirect to the main `abc.html` page. – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:29
And what is your web servers DocumentRoot set to? – RiggsFolly Apr 25 '19 at 10:32
In this case is in the same folder with `abc.html` but that's not mandatory – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:35
Then all you need is `header('Location: abc.html');` – RiggsFolly Apr 25 '19 at 10:38
@RiggsFolly I tried that but when I do that is redirected and the page it's looking a bit different than what i expected and I don't know why. – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:42
_looking a bit different than what i expected_ What does it look like? What did you expect it to look like? Quite possibly we would need to see some code! – RiggsFolly Apr 25 '19 at 10:43
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/192359/discussion-between-bob-and-riggsfolly). – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:51
See the attach print screen on chat – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 10:57
I solved the problem using `header('Location: abc.html');` and `` to have the same result – BOB Apr 25 '19 at 11:11

Redirect from php file to a local HTML file

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