By fikelfikel on

On some websites, adobe.com for example, if you type in http://www.adobe.com/dowload, it seems to bring you to http://www.adobe.com/download . How can i do that with my Drupal website?

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Since the paths look the same to me, it is not clear what you are trying to redirect from and to.

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fikelfikel commented

It is like if people do not know what address your download page is, and the go to www.example.com/player/download.php, and the origional page is www.example.com/mediaplayer/download.php, the site will want to re-direct the person that goes to www.example.com/player/download.php to www.example.com/mediaplayer/download.php . Do you get me?

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cog.rusty commented

This can be done in your .htaccess file with a line like:

Redirect 301 /player/download.php http://www.example.com/mediaplayer/download.php

Or, with:

RewriteEngine On
...
RewriteRule ^player/download.php$ /mediaplayer/download.php [R=301,L]
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fikelfikel commented

Thank you for your helpful comment! But... do you open .htaccess in a text editor? And where exactly do you but that code?

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Yes, you open .htaccess with a text editor.

The first one can go anywhere, the second one can go after the already existing RewriteEngine On line.

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fikelfikel commented

Although, maybe this handy tool might do the trick for me. I just looked up htaccess in the modules section here and i found this : http://drupal.org/project/toggle_www

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

If you open .htaccess with a text editor you will see a comment explaining how to do the "www." thing.

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fikelfikel commented

Thanks for all the help. It is well appreciated. Thanks very much. :-)