Difference between revisions of "Redirect Your Webpage To Another Website"

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:* If you want to ''stop/remove'' the redirection you need to remove your '''Redirect''' line from the file.  '''''Do not''''' remove the other existing lines from the file.  
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:* If you want to ''stop/remove'' the redirection you need to remove your '''Redirect''' line from the '''.htaccess''' file.  '''''Do not''''' remove the other existing lines from the file.  
  
 
:* Please<span style="color:#ff0000"> '''''do not''''' delete the '''.htaccess''' file.</span>  If you do, you'll break PHP.
 
:* Please<span style="color:#ff0000"> '''''do not''''' delete the '''.htaccess''' file.</span>  If you do, you'll break PHP.

Revision as of 22:00, 5 December 2017

You want to take your personal website on our server, for example:

Your Grad/Research account's webpage: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mary
or
your Ugrad account's web page: http://ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~mary

and have all requests for that site get redirected to another website, for example:

http://some-other-webserver.com/~mary


You can do this by adding a line to the .htaccess file in your public_html directory on your Grad and/or Ugrad account, depending on which URL above you want to use. (Remember, if you have both a Grad and a Ugrad account, and you want to have the redirect work for both, you need to follow the following instructions for both accounts.)

IMPORTANT! There are some special lines of code already in the .htaccess file that make PHP work on our systems. Please don't erase that code from the file. Just add the following Redirect line.

The Redirect line to should look similar to this:

Redirect  307  /~mary  http://some-other-webserver.com/~mary

In the example above, anyone surfing to http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mary (Grad account) or to http://ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~mary (Ugrad account) will get redirected to http://some-other-webserver.com/~mary


You can change or remove the redirection at any time simply by editing the .htaccess file. However...

NOTES:

  • If you want to stop/remove the redirection you need to remove your Redirect line from the .htaccess file. Do not remove the other existing lines from the file.
  • Please do not delete the .htaccess file. If you do, you'll break PHP.