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URL redirect not working in Safari and Chrome...why? - The UnDoug - 10-26-2010
I have a website:
http://www.artmuseumarea.com
that has a redirect in its index.html file. So rather than loading www.artmuseumarea.com/index.html, that page actually redirects to:
www.artmuseumarea.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi
This works fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer (I'm on a PC at work), but doesn't work in Safari or Chrome.
I believe this is the same behavior seen on my Mac at home.
Any idea what the deal is?
Here's what I use for the redirect:
<meta http-equiv=Refresh Content="0 url=http://www.artmuseumarea.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi">
Re: URL redirect not working in Safari and Chrome...why? - Seacrest - 10-26-2010
<meta http-equiv=Refresh Content="0 url=http://www.artmuseumarea.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi">
Re: URL redirect not working in Safari and Chrome...why? - The UnDoug - 10-26-2010
Hmmm....that's probably all it was.
In the meantime, though, I found a solution to put a redirect in an .htaccess file, and that seems to have done the trick.
I may see if it was just the semicolon.
Thanks, Seacrest!
Re: URL redirect not working in Safari and Chrome...why? - Seacrest - 10-26-2010
I would also suggest using mod_rewrite instead of redirects, if possible.
That way you can route all your requests to your cgi, but keep pretty URLs, like http://artmuseum.com/rocky-statue.html instead of http://artmuseum.com/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?page=rocky%20statue