URL Redirection / 301 Redirect.

[smithmr8]

Hi,

Working on a URL re-direction site. http://ziz.im

 

At the moment, it's not using the most effecient of redirections. I want to change this to a 301 redirect. But I can't quite figure out how to get it to work.

 

Currently:

- I am using a .htaccess rewrite to re-direct all shortened urls to a page (parse.php) which is providing the public variable 'q' containing the shortened keywork (e.g. GTRfdrtlls).

- This is then checked through the DB to find if its valid, then redirects to that URL.

 

How can I get it to use 301 Redirects, like the below:

<?

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );

Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );

?>

 

I need to be able to query the database to get the URL / Check if its valid before I can specify the URL. But you need to specify the headers at the start.

 

Confused.

 

Cheers.

 

[requinix]

The restriction is that header() has to go before output. You can have as much code as you want before it so long as there's no output.

[smithmr8]

That'll teach me to read things properly! Thanks, works fine. It was because I was trying to include a file. Just copied the contents in and working fine.