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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Wordpress Forwarding...

Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 03:10
Jayenkai
Hmm.. Not quite what I wanted..
Today I decided to delve into Wordpress and see if I could get it to forward a user to a particular AGameAWeek game when they give it a particular URL.
Didn't quite work out..

Inside 404.php I added the following line.

This *almost* works, but is stuttery, and doesn't always do as expected..
eg https://Jayenkai.com/123 works just fine, as does https://Jayenkai.com/201 .. But then https://AGameAWeek.com/201 doesn't, because there actually is a post with the title that starts with "201".... Or something.. *shrugs*

There's also that moment between request and end result, where the 404 page pops up for a moment, which isn't exactly what I wanted..

I'm guessing I'm going to have to delve deep into the depths of the actual php files to achieve this, so if anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!

(I actually did consider adding hundreds of folders, each containing a single redirection .html file, but that'd make my whole ftp directory as messy as hell!!)

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 04:32
cyangames
Couldn't this be done through .htaccess instead?

E.g.



You may need to alter redirectingscript.php to another place on your server, possibly your themes directory.

The RewriteRule line will take any url with 1 to 4 numerical characters at the start, with nothing else afterwards and forward that to a script, with the url as a get variable.

You would lose the 404 page this way so it might be worth using an altered vrsion of that line, such as below:



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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 04:43
Jayenkai
Yeah, probably.. It's just that the site's theme was a simple drag'n'drop affair when switching servers, (although I did still have to reconstruct the menus since Wordpress's database is a bloody mess!) so I figured tweaking the theme's 404.php file would ensure future ease-of-access without all the faffing about...
.. Was going for the quickest and laziest option

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 11:18
spinal
I'm a little confused. Why in the 404.php? should it not be in the index.php or maybe header.php or content.php?

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 12:05
Jayenkai
The 404's in the theme's directory. If I tweak the index or otherwise, then any future server shift wouldn't carry it over as easily as simply copying the theme over, plus the index/etc is probably overwritten by updates to wordpress itself.

Again, was opting for the lazyman's method!
I'll have a look at htaccess tomorrow. Been playing with golf, all day!!

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 12:36
spinal
Are you messing with core files, rather than just theme files?

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 13:10
Jayenkai
I haven't even looked at it all day, if I'm honest.. I did that little 404 tweak late last night, and haven't even looked at it again, since!!

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 13:23
spinal
you should have an index.php in the theme directory...

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Thu, 21 Aug 2014, 13:52
Jayenkai
Yeah, but 404 seemed the most obvious, Incase I interfered with anything important. If it's hitting the 404 script, then it's already decided that the requested URL isn't important in the context of the site. Note how the jayenkai.com and AGameAWeek.com /201 URLs both behave differently?? Even though they are literally the exact same file on the exact same server..?
I figured if I do thing within the 404, I've less of a chance of completely buggering it up!!

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Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 02:49
Jayenkai
Alright, I tweaked the .htaccess, thanks rychan.
*sigh* Can't believe it took a whole day to get around to doing that..

I imagine I'm going to have to keep checking that that's still there, though. No doubt Wordpress will keep buggering it up!

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Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 04:01
cyangames
No worries, hope it worked out okay for ya . I don't think wordpress should make any changes to your .htaccess file tbh, then again, wordpress is wordpress when it comes to updating

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Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 05:15
Jayenkai
Yeah, especially when it's doing auto updates, nowadays. God only knows what chaos is going on behind the scenes!! I'll just have to remember to keep an eye out for any "fixes" that Wordpress decides to make.

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