forwarding/redirecting HTML/ASP pages

**TunaFish** · Nov 21, 2001 18:19

I do some freelance for a portal site with a lot of clients.

Like
http://www.myportal.com

All clients have .asp pages like this:
Example for clientX
http://www.myportal.com/member_info.asp?member=70

Now we would like to have that your clients can login to our site directly to their page
Like this
http://www.myportal.com/clientX
and than they get forwarded or redirected to
http://www.myportal.com/member_info.asp?member=70

How can I do this?
I made some folders in the root like clientX with an index.html.
containing the code:

<html>
<head><title>clientX</title>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; URL=http://www.myportal.com/member_info.asp?member=70">
</head>

When I open the index from my HD it opens the
http://www.myportal.com/member_info.asp?member=70
without any problem
However when I upload the index to the server and type in my browser:
http://www.myportal.com/clientX
I get a 403, Forbidden
When i visit
http://www.myportal.com/clientX/index.html
everything works..

I tried on another server where it does work without the index.html

Also we have over 150 clients and it will be very messy to make all folders for them in the root..
Is there another way?
Someone mentioned me that
"on unix servers (which we have) you can just modify the .htaccess file and not even set up the folders. In asp, you could do it the way you did and then create a meta refresh page with that code"
I have no idea what a .htaccess file is..

Another thing it would be nice if the address in the browser stays pinned on
http://www.myportal.com/clientX
Is that possible? With a frameset at 100% or something?

I know many question, I hope that someone can help me, this feature would be very nice for us

Many Thanks

**big_al** · Nov 21, 2001 18:30

Hi,

sounds pretty easy.

When you log the person in you can find his member number. so you would do somthing like this.

Code:

Dim memberNo, sURL

MemberNo = 70

sURL = "member_info.asp?member=" &memberNo

Response.redirect(sURL)

Thats about it.

hope that helps

**TunaFish** · Nov 21, 2001 18:54

Thanks for the reply

sorry to dissapoint you

I don't have a clue where to put that code..
Is that HTML?

Also the pages are not private or something, anyone should be aible to access them that way..
Does this solve also the folder problem?

Thanks anyway..

**dhtmlgod** · Nov 21, 2001 19:52

You have to put that into the ASP page befoe anything is sent to the client or it will cause and error.

**goober** · Nov 22, 2001 14:24

you also have to put it in the proper ASP Brackets. For example:

Code:

<%Dim memberNo, sURL

MemberNo = 70

sURL = "member_info.asp?member=" & memberNo

Response.redirect(sURL)
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>

etc., etc.

NOTE: This would require you to, when a user logs in, retrieve his member number from a database.

**TunaFish** · Nov 23, 2001 17:04

Anybody knows more about the .htaccess file?
I made one in notepad containing:

Redirect /clientX http://www.myportal.com/member_info.asp?member=70

and saved as .htaccess
Uploaded to the Unix server, but it doesn't work

btw thanks for the .ASP tips but I don't see to understand anything..
In which ASP page should I have to put that in?
In the member_info.asp? I tried that but it didn't work...

I would like that clientX (and everybody else) gets forwarded to from
http://www.myportal.com/clientX
(without any index or .html!) to his
http://www.myportal.com/member_info.asp?member=70
page..

I must be stupid

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