[SOLVED] Redirect without mod_rewrite

[Lumio]

Hello!

 

I'm writing a community where users can create theire own websites.

the websites get saved in ./web/[username]/

Every user has also his own userpage. So if you get to [username].mydomain.com/ you come to his userpage.

BUT: He also can set up his userpage to redirect his own website. So if you get to [username].mydomain.com/ you actually get to mydomain.com/web/[username]/

But I want that the adressbar shows [username].mydomain.com/

 

How can I do that?

[Jessica]

That's what mod_rewrite is for - why do you want to do it without it?

 

I believe in DNS you can do *.domain.com - you could direct that to a specific page, then use PHP to get the whole URL to get the user's name.

[Balmung-San]

That's what mod_rewrite is for - why do you want to do it without it?

 

It could be that their webhost doesn't allow it. I know WebHostingBuzz doesn't allow for mod_rewrite (or quite a few modules for that matter).

[Jessica]

So pony up the $5 monthly to get a decent host.

[Balmung-San]

So pony up the $5 monthly to get a decent host.

 

That's about the cost of WebHostingBuzz. I haven't found anybody else who's quite so cheap that I like (except this one company in the UK, but they didn't want to do internation sales).

[Jessica]

GoDaddy is 3.99 and they allow it.

[Lumio]

I'm sorry you missunderstood me .... my fault

 

I already did that... so if is say lumio.mydomain.com it goes to my userpage. But when I want to set up the option to redirect to my personal website... I don't know how to do that.

 

I also told that problem in another board. They told me to write a .htaccess with all redirects. So if one user sets it up to redirect to his website, the script should write it into the .htaccess.

 

But I'm not happy about that. I'm looking for another solve.

[Jessica]

on the current page, use header('Location: http://othersite.com');

[Lumio]

I know that command... but if I use that the adress bar shows me the real url.

 

I want to handle it like DNS does.

[Jessica]

I don't think you're going to be able to without mod_rewrite, unless you only have one page - then you could include it. If you have many pages, your links would have to point to the other domain, and users will see it.

[Lumio]

hmm... ok... I think I have to do that really with mod_rewrite.

But thanks for trying to help me

[Lumio]

yep... I think I found a way to do that as easy as you can.

 

I though about a function that gives me the content-type of a file.

So if someone requests the url lumio.mydomain.com/myfile.html the file get back to index.php

index.php reads the whole url and reads the file /lumio/myfile.html

And mime_content_type() is giving me the mime-type of myfile.html

 

Yeah