Redirect to the front page if the user access the website with $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Question

I am trying to know if the user access the website from the domain it self (" http://mydomain.com ") or access it using such url (" http://mydomain.com/about ") and redirect him to the front page

I tried this code and I put it in the page.tpl.php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] !="/"){header( 'Location: http://www.mydomain.com' );}

but if the user click any link on the home page its keep redirect him.

Please help

Answer 1

Try the below code in this i am using regular expression to find that that if the request came from your site or not

 if(preg_match('#^https?\://(?:www\.)?mydomain\.com/?$#',$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])){
   //matched

 }else{

   // redirect to other  index page
 }

IT will work for you