I haven't used PHP in about 3 years and consequently have forgotten pretty much everything but basic syntax. I just started up an apache server and I need to redirect based on the requested URL. i.e.

blah.no-ip.org
woot.no-ip.org
noob.no-ip.org

(not the real hostnames) all point to the same server. I want to redirect based on the hostname like this:

http://blah.no-ip.org      > http://blah.no-ip.org/blah

and so forth. That's all I want index.php to do.


I want the index to redirect based

2/8/2006 4:10:35 PM

You don't want to use Apache to do this?

2/8/2006 4:15:14 PM

yar
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess7.shtml

2/8/2006 4:17:39 PM

i don't know where the apache configuration files are stored under linux.

i used apt-get to install apache, so all I know is the www root is /var/www

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 4:24 PM. Reason : ]

2/8/2006 4:22:46 PM

its called putting a .htaccess file in your root web folder.

2/8/2006 4:24:44 PM

see ^^
you can add a .htaccess file to your root directory. That will take care of it

2/8/2006 4:24:47 PM

it'd be better to do it in apache than PHP

2/8/2006 4:24:47 PM

wow - 3 responses in 3 seconds. not bad

2/8/2006 4:25:28 PM

sorry... it's been a few years since ive done this

2/8/2006 4:26:57 PM

if its Fedora:

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Just edit the:

DocumentRoot /home/your user/public_html/blah

and your done


[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 4:37 PM. Reason : op]

2/8/2006 4:36:00 PM

^x8 doesn't do what I want...

I want to redirect http://blah.no-ip.org to http://blah.no-ip.org/blah .

The redirect command doesn't let me discriminate between

blah.no-ip.org
woot.no-ip.org
noob.no-ip.org

I can

Redirect / http://blah.no-ip.org/blah

2/8/2006 4:38:21 PM

well i suck at redirects, but i'm sure it can be done. Someone else here can work up the regexs needed

2/8/2006 4:51:08 PM

I used a virtual host because it's better than having a .htaccess in the root. (.htaccess in the root will be loaded every time a page is requested. the defualt config is only loaded once)

<VirtualHost [ip address/* for any]>
ServerName blah.no-ip.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/blah
</VirtualHost>

2/8/2006 4:59:25 PM

That's what I've always done.

2/8/2006 5:09:40 PM

yeah, it's called virtual hosts in Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#virtualhost

in PHP, you can do a simple redirect page like this:

<?php
	$url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; 
	switch ($url) {
		case "blah.no-ip.org": {
			header("location:http://blah.no-ip.org/blah");
			break;
		}
		case "woot.no-ip.org": {
			header("location:http://blah.no-ip.org/woot");
			break;
		}
		case "noob.no-ip.org": {
			header("location:http://blah.no-ip.org/noob");
			break;
		}
	}
	exit;
?>

2/8/2006 5:52:19 PM

mod rewrite will do what you want:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

2/8/2006 9:34:26 PM