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Experts,

I have a website let say call http://www.xxx.com
and now i wish from http://www.xxx.com/yyy/ redirect to this http://www.xxx.com/zzz/

How to redirect my website to another location with server configuration without changing scripts?

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Wee Siong

yuzh

You can create a symbolic links to get the job done.

cd your-web-server-root-dir
mv yyy mybackup
ln -s /your-web-server-root-dir/zzz /your-web-server-root-dir/yyy

Note: your old yyy dir becomes mybackup, when people use http://www.xxx.com/yyy/, it automatically point to http://www.xxx.com/zzz/

weesiong

ASKER

yuzh,

If i am no any foder call yyy, how?

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Wee Siong

yuzh

if you don't have a yyy dir, but you have zzz. do the followings:

1. login as root, or su as root

2. cd your-web-server-root-dir
ln -s /your-web-server-root-dir/zzz /your-web-server-root-dir/yyy

this create a a symbolic link for you.

when some one try to access yyy, it goes to zzz

I hope this can help.

ahoffmann

your webserver has the ability to do this, usually.
In apache this is called Alias and/or ScriptAlias, it also has sevaral other redirect methods.

weesiong

ASKER

ahoffmann,

I havent try it, so yuzh way is correct?

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Wee Siong

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weesiong

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Thanks :)

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Wee Siong