Wordpress link to outside resources, top navigation bar
I recently installed Wordpress on my Linux server and I'm using a standard template. To add a link on the navigation bar in my Wordpress home page just below the header image, I think that adding a new page is required: in this way the new link appears in the horizontal navigation bar at the top of the page.
The Wordpress permalink for my new page looks like this: http://www.mywordpress.com/?page_id=16
But I don't need to add content - I simply need to add a link to https://site.mydomain.com/path/script.cgi
and the link needs to be in my Wordpress navigation bar.
I tried apache rewrite but this failed to make any difference:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywordpress\.com\/?page_i
RewriteRule (.*) https://site.mydomain.com/path/script.cgi [L,R=301]
Since I would only need to redirect a single page, I read in one of your archives that the file to edit is
~/wordpress/wp-content/the
so I changed this:
<?php get_header(); ?>
to
<?php if (is_page( 16 ) header("Location:/https://site.mydomain.com/path/script.cgi/")) get_header(); ?>
and now I get a blank page when I navigate to the link - the url still shows http://www.mywordpress.com/?page_id=16 but now Apache doesn't know what to look for. Let me know how to fix this thanks.
The Wordpress permalink for my new page looks like this: http://www.mywordpress.com/?page_id=16
But I don't need to add content - I simply need to add a link to https://site.mydomain.com/path/script.cgi
and the link needs to be in my Wordpress navigation bar.
I tried apache rewrite but this failed to make any difference:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywordpress\.com\/?page_i
RewriteRule (.*) https://site.mydomain.com/path/script.cgi [L,R=301]
Since I would only need to redirect a single page, I read in one of your archives that the file to edit is
~/wordpress/wp-content/the
so I changed this:
<?php get_header(); ?>
to
<?php if (is_page( 16 ) header("Location:/https://site.mydomain.com/path/script.cgi/")) get_header(); ?>
and now I get a blank page when I navigate to the link - the url still shows http://www.mywordpress.com/?page_id=16 but now Apache doesn't know what to look for. Let me know how to fix this thanks.
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I'm glad i posted, i was really second guessing whether or not i should post. I just felt like i must be overlooking something in the question. I'm glad we have a solution.
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Enough about my other questions...staying focused...
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Another reason I got confused was that I had first tried to put the cgi script under the same doc root as my wordpress site, to keep a consistent site url. I have two other apache virtual hosts running cgi scripts but on the virtual host running wordpress, when my browser loads a script in the directory path configured for ExecCGI, the script is displayed as text.
The only thing I can think of is that Apache may not recognize the ExecCGI directory path in the same way that it does on non-wordpress virtual hosts:
doc-root# ls -l
dir css
dir images
dir scripts <-- ExecCGI enabled but scripts appear as text
index.php
robots.txt
symbolic link to /usr/share/wordpress
That being said, you did answer my question. I'll check back tomorrow, let me know if I should open a new one thanks.