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Knowledge base Redirect a site's homepage (or any other web page) to another page or website

Redirect a site's homepage (or any other web page) to another page or website

This guide explains how to redirect your visitors to another address once they have arrived on your website hosted by Infomaniak.

HTML redirection

Paste this line of code between the <head> and </head> tags of your index page. Replace Time with the time in seconds or 0 so that redirection occurs immediately:

META http-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="Temps; url=https://www.domain.xyz">

PHP redirection

If your website page has a .php extension, insert this header call function at the very top of the file:

<?php header('Location: https://www.domain.xyz'); ?>

.htaccess redirection

This setting will redirect absolutely all the traffic sent to your site (regardless of the page called) towards another address. Here are the rules to paste into the .htaccess file of your root directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.xyz/$1 [R=301]

Alternative instructions

A variation of the third option given above (redirection via .htaccess) enables you to target the page to be redirected. E.g.:

Redirect permanent /old_page.html https://new-page.xyzRedirectpermanent, Redirect permanent and Redirect 301 are equivalent commands.

Here is another example of redirecting a sub-section to the home page (this directive has the advantage of working with "deep links" as opposed to a permanent redirect):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule "old/path/url "/" [L]