Redirect a web page URL to another website

Question

I have a simple PHP website. Let's call it youtubex.com. I want to redirect youtubex URLs (in the format shown on STEP2) to my website in the format shown on STEP3. Here, I am using YouTube, just for illustration.

STEP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
STEP2: https://www.youtubex.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU 
STEP3: https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU

STEP1 shows any desired URL. STEP2 shows the same URL from STEP1 with youtubex as domain. STEP3 shows the final required URL. I am trying to redirect STEP2 to STEP3.

I tried finding some solutions to this on the internet and SO, but, none help. Here is one.

what is the point of step 3 when you can get the VIDEO ID from step 2? STEP 3 doesn't make any sense — OMi Shah, Aug 30 '21 at 05:36
Actually, STEP3 is the final step (required URL). My objective is if someone visits STEP2 URL, it should redirect to STEP3. — riykrsh, Aug 30 '21 at 05:43
why do you want to do that ? would https://www.youtubex.com/#url=lj62iuaKAhU also do the trick ? — Pooya Estakhri, Aug 30 '21 at 05:45
No, https://www.youtubex.com/#url=lj62iuaKAhU will not work @pooya-estakhri — riykrsh, Aug 30 '21 at 05:49

OMi Shah · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-31T05:09:32.523

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This should do the work:

RedirectMatch 301 /watch$ https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch

edited Aug 31 '21 at 05:09

answered Aug 30 '21 at 06:01

OMi Shah

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@MrWhite thanks for pointing out, my mistake. I have corrected the mistake. :) – OMi Shah Aug 31 '21 at 05:10
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Nice simple solution. +1 – MrWhite Sep 01 '21 at 22:51

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 30 '21 at 06:07

An inefficient but full php solution can be using the location header in php :

    $vid = $_GET['v']
    if($vid){  header("location:https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$vid");
    }

by the way you can't get the text after the hash mark in php because it is not sent to the server.

javascript can do it in a more neat way without the second reload by checking window.location.href to see if the hash does not exist already and then get the v parameter in url then change url without refreshing the page by using window.history.pushState({"html":response.html,"pageTitle":response.pageTitle},"", urlPath);

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 31 '21 at 05:57

using php str_replace and header :

$step2_url = "https://www.youtubex.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU";
$part2_url = str_replace("youtubex","youtube",$step2_url);//the output is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
$step3_url = "https://www.youtubex.com/#url=".$part2_url; //the output is : https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU

now you have the final url , simply redirect

header($step3_url);

Redirect a web page URL to another website

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