Tag: redirect

Redirect a page to another using HTML
To redirect a webpage to another using HTML, you can use meta tag with http-equiv=”refresh”.
```
      
 
    

Visit https://NEW-URL-HERE/
```
January 2, 2022
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with IIS 10
To redirect a domain to HTTPS, Click on the website in IIS, you will see

If you don’t see the “URL Rewrite” button, you need to install “URL Rewrite” extension

https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

Click on “URL Rewrite” button. On the next screen click on “Add Rule(s)” link on the right side menu.

Select “Blank Rule”, then click OK button.

On the next screen, enter the following details
```
Name = SSL
Pattern = (.*)
```
Keep all other options default.

Scroll down, expand “conditions” on the same screen. Click on Add button

Enter the following values, keep everything else default as shown in the above picture.
```
Condition input = {HTTPS}
Pattern = ^OFF$
```
Click “OK” button.

Scroll Down to the actions section
```
Action type = Redirect
Rewrite URL = https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}
Redirect type =  Permanent (301)
```
Click “Apply” from the right side “Actions” menu to save the changes.

Method 2: using web.config

Create a file with the name “web.config” in the document root of your website with the following content.
```
    
        
            
                
                    
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
            
        
    
```
You need “URL Rewrite” IIS module installed for this to work.
December 3, 2021
How to redirect a domain with html extension in Nginx
A WordPress website needs to migrate to a different domain, on a new domain site use static HTML pages. On the source site, WordPress is configured to use URL like https://domain1/page-name/, on the new server, the same page available on URL https://domain2/page-name.html
```
Source = https://domain1/page-name/
Destinatation = https://domain2/page-name.html
```
To do the redirection, edit Nginx configuration for the website, on top of it (inside server entry), add
```
rewrite ^/$ https://new-domain.tld permanent;
rewrite ^(.*)/$ https://new-domain.tld$1.html permanent;
rewrite ^(.*)$ https://new-domain.tld$1.html permanent;
```
Restart Nginx
```
systemctl restart nginx
```
See Nginx Redirect
August 20, 2021

Redirect a site to www using PHP

To redirect a site to URL with www using PHP, you can use the following PHP code

<?php

$domainName = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

if (strpos($domainName, 'www') === false) {
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
    $urlNew = 'https://www.' . $domainName .  $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    Header("Location: $newUrl");
    exit;
}

Add this code in your index.php file or another file included by index.php

See Redirect

April 14, 2021

Fix Canonical URL using .htaccess
When you host a web site, many web hosting providers allow your web site access using multiple urls like yourdomain.com, www.yourdomain.com. If you have a dedicated IP address, your web site become available on the IP address also. It is bad for SEO to have a site available in multiple URLs. If search engine index your web site contents using differnt URLs, that will affect your page ranking.

To ge beter search ranking, you need to deicde which URL you want search engines to index. This can be with www or with out www, it is more of a personal choice. In my case, i decided to use with out www (https://serverok.in) to make URL shorter. Once you decided the URL you need google to index, you need to redirect all other URLs used to access your web site to this URL. This is called Canonical url.

On Apache web server, you can do this using .htacess file. Create an .htaccess file with following content
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} !=www.yourdomain.com
RewriteRule ^ https://www.yourdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
```
In above code, replace www.yourdomain.com with the Canonical URL of your web site. If you don’t use www, then remove the www from the redirect code. What the code doing is check if visitor is using proper Canonical URL to access your web site, if not redirect it to Canonical url. In third line, we redirect to https, if you don’t have SSL installed, change it to “http” instead of “https”.

See redirect
December 2, 2020
Redirect a folder to another
To redirect a folder to another using .htaccess, create
```
RedirectMatch 301 ^/OLD_FOLDER/(.*)$ /NEW_FOLDER/$1
```
Or
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^OLD_FOLDER/(.*)$ /NEW_FOLDER/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
```
Or
```
Redirect 301 /OLD_FOLDER /NEW_FOLDER
```
if new folder is on another domain, you can use https://new-domain.com/OLD_FOLDER

See Redirect
June 19, 2020
Redirect
Nginx
IIS
- IIS redirect site to HTTPS
- Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with IIS 10
Redirect a site to HTTPS using .htaccess file
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]
```
Redirect a web site to SSL using Apache Virtual Host
```
ServerName www.yourdomain.com 
Redirect permanent / https://www.yourdomain.com/
```
OR
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =yourdomain.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.yourdomain.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
```
Redirect a Site to HTTPS using PHP
```
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] != "on") {
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
    header("Location: https://www.yourdomain.com");
}
```
Redirect www to non-www URL
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
```
December 22, 2017

Tag: redirect

Method 2: using web.config

Nginx

IIS