[Resolved] Hard Coded URLs

RAIS

Hello All

I have learned alot over the past week from this site in regards to PHP and MySQL. So I thought I would come back here to learn how to do this as well.

I am developing a script that has some hard coded URLs in the server api (cPanel) and I would like to create a redirect page to the new php version of it.

For example cPanel hard codes URLs such as http://www.domain.com:2082/folder/file.html?func=variable I would like it to become http://www.domain.com:2082/floder/file.php?func=variable so I want to create a redirection page with the '?func=variable' to be the same.

Could anyone help me create a script with that. I have tried a few script, but to no avail.

the redirect file itself has to be in HTML so that cPanel will recognize it, then redirect to the PHP version.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

TheDefender

Probably not the best solution, but since it needs to be an HTML page, have you considered looking into using a META refresh tag?

RAIS

Yes, I have looked into that but is what I need is a redirection that will only change is html to php

http://www.domain.com/folder/file.html?func=variable
http://www.domain.com/folder/file.php?func=variable

I cannot predetermine the variable.

Is this possible? Can I retreive that info from a html file and post it to the php file url?

TheDefender

Well, if you have the hardcoded URL, then you can use [man]preg_replace/man to change the html extension to a php extension, thus giving you the new URL in a variable you can use in the redirection.

$url = "http://www.domain.com/folder/file.html?func=variable";
echo $url."<br />"; // echoed only to display result
$pattern = "/.html/";
$replace = ".php";
$newurl = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $url);
echo $newurl; // echoed only to display result

// Outputs the following:
// http://www.domain.com/folder/file.html?func=variable
// http://www.domain.com/folder/file.php?func=variable

LordShryku

Though, considering it's an html page, I don't know if you can execute php from it. If you're using apache, you may want to look at using mod_alias RedirectMatch...

RAIS

I cannot modify the server, as it is a cpanel server. If I were to do a mod, I would have to submit it for the cpanel server, as it would require a number of servers, including mine, and I am not sure if they would be up for that.. I am however looking to find out where the cpanel commands are to find another way around it.

drawmack

javascript will do this for you, though you could set your 404 page to be a php page, then in your 404 page you could replace the extension on the filename with .php see if that exists on the server and if it does then load that instead of displaying the 404 message.

RAIS

Originally posted by drawmack
javascript will do this for you, though you could set your 404 page to be a php page, then in your 404 page you could replace the extension on the filename with .php see if that exists on the server and if it does then load that instead of displaying the 404 message.

You don't understand what I need to do.. I am creating the php file, just that the cPanel syntax has the information predermined. one of the links a <cpanel> tag produces is http://www.domain.com:2082/folder/file.html?func=variable now I need to extract the ?func=variable from the URL and paste it in the redirect file (which is the html file I will create because that link is predetermined).

cpanel dynamic link: http://www.domain.com:2082/folder/file.html?func=variable my redirect file: http://www.domain.com:2082/folder/file.html the new php file: http://www.domain.com:2082/folder/file.php with ?func=variable included in the new url redirect.

Although I am looking into javascript it is currently not quite working. I get the redirect with out the ?func=variable

tsinka

Hi,

might be some kind of an ugly solution but might work. AFAIK you can put AddType directive into .htaccess files if the web server is running apache and AllowOverride is set to on in httpd.conf. Try to put a .htaccess into DOCUMENT_ROOT that contains:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm

That should make apache to interpret .html and .htm files as PHP files, too.

A javascript solution:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Test</title>
      <script>
        url=document.location.toString()
        url=url.replace(/(file.html)/,'file.php')
        document.location=url
      </script>
  </head>
  <body>
  &nbsp;
  </body>
</html>

Thomas

RAIS

THANK YOU, tsinka!!

A solution that has worked! That was just the script that I was looking for.

I will give you credit for that script. It will be used in the cPanel MySQL script I am working on.

Just what I was looking for.