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saranyamoellers
31,695 Pointsreceipt folder with index.php
Could anyone help me? I typed localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/ in my url I didn't get the thank you page to show up like Randy did. I only got the list of file in the receipt folder. i had to click the index.php in receipt folder to display the thank you page. How can I type localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/ to make it display index.php automatically? like Randy did.
8 Answers
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsRewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /shirts4mike/
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ shirts/shirts.php [L]
RewriteRule ^shirts/([0-9]+)/$ shirts/shirt.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^receipt.php$ receipt/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^contact.php$ contact/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^shirts.php$ shirts/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(shirts/[0-9]+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^shirt.php$ shirts/%1/? [R=301,L]
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 PointsPlease, specify what server do you use? In case it's Apache, check the settings for your vhost for something like this:
<Directory /yoursite>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</Directory>
or create .thaccess file in your site's root directory and add this line:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsHi Myroslav, I need to bother again.According to the video Redirecting Old Web Addresses in PHP I typed localhost/shirts4mike/receipt.php in the URL like Randy did My thank you page wouldn't show up I had Forbidden Error instead but If I typed localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/ my thank you page would work. I was wondering why I got the error ? do I need to fix something in the Apache config file?
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 PointsSaranya, first of all, check if your receipt.php exists and double check the URL you've typed. Maybe the URL for direct access should be localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/index.php If the URL is right and the file you're trying to access exists, then the issue may be with a file permissions.
Forbidden Errors (403) usually means that the permissions for the file doesn't allow a process to access it. Go to the directory where receipt.php file is (or index.php?), and type
chmod a+r receipt.php
or index.php instead receipt.php.
You can also check the 'receipt' directory permissions, it must be granted for execution for all. From your site root directory type
chmod a+x receipt
If this'll not help, please, provide your .htaccess file listing and exact paths to the files you're trying to access.
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsHello and thank you, I dont' have receipt.php but I have receipt folder and index.php(thank you page) inside it.
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsRewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ shirts/shirts.php
RewriteRule ^shirts/([0-9]+)/$ shirts/shirt.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^receipt.php$ receipt/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^contact.php$ contact/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^shirts.php$ shirts/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^(shirts/[0-9]+)$ /$1/ [R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^shirt.php$ shirts/%1/? [R=301]
saranyamoellers
31,695 Points<?php //DEFINE A CONSTANTS for links use BASE_URL,for include file use ROOT_PATH
define("BASE_URL","/shirts4mike/");
define("ROOT_PATH",$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/shirts4mike/"); //this is the sever path to homepage of website
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 PointsTry to add the slashes before your redirect paths in the rewrite rules like this:
RewriteRule ^receipt.php$ /receipt/ [R=301]
not
receipt/ [R=301]
but
/receipt/ [R=301]
If this is right, then fix your other rules, they may be broken for the same reason
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsUm, I already tried that. It didn't work. It did't redirect to the thank you page(receipt folder with index.php in the folder) but if I typed localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/ in URL , it would work.
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 PointsAlso it may be a browser's cache issue, because of 301 redirect (as permanent) - the browser redirects you to the wrong path, which it stored in cache earlier. Fix your .htaccess as above and clear your browser's cache. You can check your redirects in Chrome Dev Tools / Network tab. You can clear the cache from there too from the context menu in this Network tab. UPD: or check 'Disable cache' checkbox in Chrome Dev Tools / Network tab
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsIt is getting warmer after I cleared the history in Chrome, I 've new error 404 Not Found good night :)
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 PointsI'm not sure that cleaning history alone will do, go to Developer Tools / Network tab and check 'Disable cache' checkbox there
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsThank you Myroslav, I added DirectoryIndex index.html index.php in my .htaccess file and it works! Yes , I use Apache. You save my day!
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 PointsGlad to help :)
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsdo you have a file called index.php inside localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/ ? If not then thats why its not working.
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsHi Stone, Yes, I have index.php file inside receipt folder.
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointshmm it should have worked then. try restarting your server and try again
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsAll right, Thank you.
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsI did restart my server. That did't work. I had to type localhost/shirts4mike/receipt/index.php in URL to get my index.php to open up still. Thank you for your time.
saranyamoellers
31,695 PointsHi guys, My redirect old web address and adding trailing slash work now. Thank you you guys for trying to help. Below is the code that works for me.