Redirect to different webpage based on URL entered

Question

I am trying to create a script to redirect users to a different URL based on the URL entered.

Ex:

test.foo.com/1234 redirects to abcom/abc/def?info=1234

or

test.foo.com/9999 redirects to abcom/abc/def?info=9999

What would be the easiest way to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use this to extract the requested page in your php script.

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Then do this to redirect the user

header("Location: http://www.abc.com/ ");

Example:

<?php
  $request = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  $request = trim($request, '/');

  //there can be no output before this line
  header("Location: http://www.abc.com/def?info=".$request);
  exit;
?>

Answer 2

You can use HTACCESS to do this most effectivley.

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://a.b.com/abc/def?info=$1 [L]