[RESOLVED] Redirect Help

antwown

Hey, Ok I am having this problem. Here it is....

I have live.church.com to a local sever IP address. Lets say 00.000.000.00. So church.com is being hosted by some company and they have it so that live.church.com is being redirect to a local server like I said. So I am wanting this local to see where the user is coming from and redirect them from there. Like I am wanting it to detect if the user came from live.church.com and then redirect the user to maybe 00.000.000.00:81 or maybe even a different IP or 00.000.000.00/live/ Is that possible in any way? I mean I really need this for my church and streaming live audio. Thankx.

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antwonw

Sorry when I signed up I typed the wrong username so this is my correct username antwonw not antwown so I will be responding with this one.

bradgrafelman

Well, normally browsers send a "Host: <host of URL typed>" HTTP header to the server when a page is requested. This is actually required in the HTTP 1.1 protocol (NOT required in 1.0). Therefore, you can usually tell what host the page is being requested under by using $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']

Now, this doesn't have to be sent, so you can't rely on this being 100% effective. For the most part, however, it should work.

antwonw

OK I am a a newbie to PHP. I mean I can understand it a little but not alot. Can someone please just tell me the code to put in my main index.php file for my home page? Please. Thank you for your help.

bradgrafelman

It's just a basic IF statement...

if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'live.church.com') {
     header('Location: http://whatever:81/etc/etc');
} else {
     // etc.
}

antwonw

Wait so the what is the else doing? is it telling it to go to /etc if not from live.church.com? See I also have downloads.church.com going to the same address. But I am wanting it to tell downloads to go to /downloads or where ever. BUt if someone were to type in the IP address into their browser if will take them some where else or display the contents of that page (the contents in my main index.php). Is there a way to do this? Thankx

bradgrafelman

Well then just add an elseif in there...

In the ELSE statement, nothing is happening... I was just giving an example and letting you fill in the missing pieces. Have you ever coded PHP before?

antwonw

No I never have. Like I said I am a newbie. i can understand stand once i see. But coding is a whole nother ball park. Thats why I was wondering if you would help me with the code and the elseif. PLease. Thankx

bradgrafelman

if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'live.church.com') { 
     header('Location: http://whatever:81/etc/etc'); 
} elseif($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'whatever.church.com') { 
     header('Location: http://whatever2:81/etc/etc'); 
} else {
     // do whatever you want if it didn't match any hosts you've listed above
}

antwonw

Holy MOther it works like a charm. Thank you thank you so very very much.

bradgrafelman

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