Redirect pages with PHP. If you've moved some old PHP pages, or URLs, to new pages and URLs, you can use the following PHP code snippet to easily redirect all visitors and incoming requests to the new location. This PHP code snippet uses a 301 Moved Permanently redirect, perfect for SEO and returns a 404 Not Found if a new location hasn't been set up yet.
Redirect pages with PHP: redirect old URLs to new URLs
Save the following PHP code as 404.php and set this PHP page as your custom default 404 Not Found page. This will prevent visitors from getting ugly and unwanted default 404 Page Not Found messages.
<?php
// watch out for accepting request_uri input without validation/sanitation!
$request=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$arrMoved=array("/php/guestbook/" => "/php/phpGuestbook/",
"/php/forumzz.php" => "/php/forum.php",
"/old.php" => "/new.php",
"/..." => "/...");
if(array_key_exists($request,$arrMoved)) {
$newplace="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$arrMoved[$request];
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: $newplace");
header("Connection: close");
exit(); // ALWAYS use exit() after header()
}
else {
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}
?>
<!--
Your normal HTML code goes here, if a match is found the
visitor will have been redirected. Only genuine 404 errors will see the HTML below.
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-->
<html>
<<head>
<title>
404 Error page
</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Sorry but this page cannot be found.</p>
</body>
</html>
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Hi, my name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely an application manager / systems administrator, doing my daily thing at Embrace – The Human Cloud. In the past I worked at CLDIN (CLouDINfra) and Vevida. With over 20 years of experience, my specialties include Windows Server, IIS, Linux (CentOS, Debian), security, PHP, websites & optimization. I blog at https://www.saotn.org.
