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Cpanel redirect problems

heymrdj

The Debian Lover
NLC
The redirect system in cpanel isn't quite working right for me. Even manually editing the .htaccess file didn't fix the problem. I am trying to get / to redirect to /test/filled%20version.htm but the cpanel redirect always takes it to /test/filled%2520version.htm Why is cpanel adding in this 25? OF course when it does that it creates an error because there is no file by %2520. Any ideas?
 
Why is this now in the paid hosting section? I'm not asking a question for or relating to paid hosting. This is just about cpanel in general.
 
heymrdj said:
Why is this now in the paid hosting section? I'm not asking a question for or relating to paid hosting. This is just about cpanel in general.
It's web hosting related. You're likely to get more help here anyhow.
 
computerhelpworld said:
Doesn't really solve your problem but why not just use a javascript redirect?

Well i don't really have an old page to direct from. I built up a template package, but not thinking of the public_htm system. So if I moved them to where I didn't need a redirect, fixing all the images would be hell on earth to say the least.
 
heymrdj said:
The redirect system in cpanel isn't quite working right for me. Even manually editing the .htaccess file didn't fix the problem. I am trying to get / to redirect to /test/filled%20version.htm but the cpanel redirect always takes it to /test/filled%2520version.htm Why is cpanel adding in this 25? OF course when it does that it creates an error because there is no file by %2520. Any ideas?
It's not necessarily cPanel's fault. The reason it does that is because the URL "code" for a percent sign is %25. cPanel takes %20, and thinks that that is actually what the URL is, and so turns it into %2520

Try using an actual space in the URL when setting up the redirect in cPanel.
 
Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script language="javascript"><!--
location.replace("http://redirectURL.com/redirectedpage.html")
//-->
</script>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>

<body>

</body>

</HTML>

Just make that as index.html and it'll redirect to the page you choose.
 
computerhelpworld said:
Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script language="javascript"><!--
location.replace("http://redirectURL.com/redirectedpage.html")
//-->
</script>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>

<body>

</body>

</HTML>
Just make that as index.html and it'll redirect to the page you choose.

This worked perfectly, thanks alot.
 
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