Server-side redirect for a dynamic forum thread -- Possible?

BJacks

Hi folks,

Here's what I'm looking to do. We have a vBulletin forum thread that's getting incredibly high hits from Google. Because it's connecting to our forum software (SQL based), it's taxing our server load to the extreme.

So we're wondering if we can redirect people going to that thread to a static page on our server. We tried doing it from htaccess, but it just redirected anyone going to any showthread.php page since it didn't recognize the unique threadid string after the .php extention.

Anyone have any suggestions. Help is greatly appreciated.

-Brian

aaron_karp

This is kinda dirty, but you could modify the showthread.php page at the very top to check something like this:

if $threadID = 324032432 or whatever
header("Location:static.html")

Would that do the trick? I'm not sure if the page would still download before redirection took place.

KITTfan2K

Originally posted by aaron_karp
This is kinda dirty, but you could modify the showthread.php page at the very top to check something like this:

if $threadID = 324032432 or whatever
header("Location:static.html")

Would that do the trick? I'm not sure if the page would still download before redirection took place.

if the browser is javascript-enabled, you can use the following code:

if ($threadID == "yourNumber")
 {
  echo "<script>location.href='static.html';</script>";
  exit;
 }

This will execute as soon as it is downloaded, so you could put it as high as possible in the page.

If PHP still continues to do it's thing, the exit; will stop it.

KITTfan2K