How to use rewrite to forward user from non-existe folder to root ?

nodi

Dears
I want to forward visitros from folder1 to folder2 becouse i can't create folder1 in my system ( windows can't create folder with name - con ) so i have to forward user to another folder .
Any help ?

nodi

:bemused:

ccgorman

<?php

header("Location:folder2/");

nodi

ccgorman wrote:
<?php

header("Location:folder2/");

?>

I can't create folder1 becouse it's reserved word in windows file system => ( con ) . 😉

mrhappiness

Look for mod_rewrite (apache online docs is a good place to start)

leatherback

Just a stupid question but.. WHY do you need to create a link to a folder which cannot be created?

nodi

leatherback wrote:
Just a stupid question but.. WHY do you need to create a link to a folder which cannot be created?

Before 1 year i have unix webhosting so i put my site into folder ( con ) for ex: http://www.domain.com/con/index.php
But now i have windows 2003 webhosting so i can't create folder - con - so all my link's in search englins will be broken , so i want to forward every user from con to root document .

that's is 🙂

dalecosp

Hmm, wonder if you could use an "Alias" in your httpd.conf....

nodi

dalecosp wrote:
Hmm, wonder if you could use an "Alias" in your httpd.conf....

How 😕

dalecosp

Well, have you read the file? 😉

# Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is
# Alias fakename realname
    Alias /icons/ "/usr/local/www/icons/"
    # This Alias will project the on-line documentation tree under /manual/
    Alias /manual/ "/usr/local/share/doc/apache/"

So, I wonder if you could use 'Alias con "/path/to/real/folder"' since Apache doesn't give a flip about Windoze reserved words? 🆒

dalecosp

Of course, the real question: are you running Apache? Someone mentioned mod_rewrite, but it wasn't you, I see.

What server are you on?

nodi

dalecosp wrote:
What server are you on?

Windows 2003 with apache 2.0