Hey Steve,
I know it can be done easily using apache rewrite rules. Since this user may
not know it, I suggested location header.
Rich
On 1/17/06, Steve Clay <sclay@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 10:54:21 AM, tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > If you can't set a new 'default page' on your server, using a
> > header('Location: ...') will simulate the same thing.
>
> Not really. Sending a "Location:" header says, "this page is temporarily
> moved" and the browser has to send a 2nd request for the new location.
> Whether redirecting via PHP (header), javascript or meta-refresh, these
> all
> needlessly force the browser to ask for the page twice, and potentially
> cause bookmarking/spidering issues when used for the home page. Amazon
> does this and it's annoying; some browsers just will not "remember" the
> plain old "http://amazon.com/"; that you typed in because only a redirect
> lives there.
>
> With a proper server config, the contents of start.php would be
> immediately
> sent to the browser. This is good. But if you can't set this on the
> server,
> this simple PHP script (index.php) does the same thing:
> <?php require 'start.php'; ?>
>
> Steve
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