[RESOLVED] re-direction - multiple sites from one page

WelshWhirlWind

I have multiple sites pointing at one development site.

I would like to be able to tell which URL was sent so I can redirect to the correct home page.

I have done this with 1and1 ISP using ASP (NOT ASP.NET) but finding it hard to get the same code for PHP.

for example say my developer site is www.mydevsite.co.uk and my other site is www.myothersite.co.uk.

I have multiple directories set up:

main
_index.php
mydevsite
____htdocs
______mydevsite.php
__private
myothersite
____htdocs
______myothersite.php
_____private

so if a visitor types in www.mydevsite.co.uk then index.php re-directs them to main/mydevsite/mydevsite.php

or if a visitor types in www.myothersite.co.uk then index.php re-directs them to main/myothersite/myothersite.php

coldwerturkey

i believe you can do something similar to

$refer = getenv('HTTP_REFERER');  //or... a $_SERVER var.. to get the current url

if (strpos($refer, "mydevsite.co.uk")) {
	header('Location: main/mydevsite/mydevsite.php')
}
elseif (strpos($refer, "myothersite.co.uk")) {
	header('Location: main/myothersite/myothersite.php')
} else {
	//default
}

dagon

you want to use modrewrite in the apache .htaccces file. the HTTP_REFERER us very unreliable

WelshWhirlWind

ColdwerTurkey

🙂
Using Code:

<body>
<?php session_start();
$PHPSESSID = session_id();
echo "<input type='hidden' name='PHPSESSID' value='$PHPSESSID' />";

          $refer = getenv('HTTP_REFERER');  //or... a $_SERVER var.. to get the current url

          if (strpos($refer, "legoplanes.co.uk"))
          {
               header('Location: ../../LEGOplanes/LEGOplanes.php');
          }
          else
          {
                header('Location: ../../FansLink/FansLink.php'); //default
          }
?>

</body>

(hope above indents ok)

above works but only due default as HTTP_REFERER picks up www.legoplanes.co.uk okay but for www.fanslink.co.uk leaves it blank

dagon

😕
Not sure about useage of 'modrewrite in the apache .htaccces file' could you give example please

Thanks for your help so for anyway guys 🙂

bradgrafelman

I definitely wouldn't rely on REFERER; why not use $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] or perhaps $SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] ?

dagon

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

WelshWhirlWind

bradgrafelman

bothof those options return www.fanslink.co.uk my deveopment site where both sites reside in sub directories

dagon

Having tried and re-tried to understand the documentation I am more confused than I was before

as it says in the manual you either love it or hate it (a bitlike Marmite)

One way I thought I could do this is as the correct URL appears in both the address bar and page title could I somehow read the URL in the address bar or the title and make a decision that way?

else could someone please helpout with abetter and simpler example than that given in the documentation.

Weedpacket

This really is something that the web server itself should be doing: it's what web servers are designed to do, after all - take URLs and locate the resources they specify.

Isn't this just a matter of setting up a couple of virtual hosts?

The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.company1.com and www.company2.com) on a single machine.... The fact that they are running on the same physical server is not apparent to the end user.

WelshWhirlWind

I haven't managed as yet to work out the complexities of Mode re-write but have a work around.

I discovered that the web forwarding allowed me to suffix the forwarding URL with the name of the site.

Then used : -

$url_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo "url_uri = $url_uri";
if (strpos($url_uri, "legoplanes"))
{
header('Location: ../../xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
}
else
{
header('Location: ../../yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy); //default
}

This seems to work, on my pc anyway, if you know of any security risks of using this method?

WelshWhirlWind

Its seems to be working okay so thanks for your help