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How do I redirect traffic to another web page?

There are multitudes of ways to redirect web traffic. Here are four ways that work well:

HTML Meta Rrefresh:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://modwest.com"/>
This technique will work in any HTML, and causes the browser to instantly load the site specified after url=. To introduce a delay, increase the number after content=; Typing a 5 would mean 5 seconds before redirection.
Apache Redirect:
You can type the following into a .htaccess file to send anything matching the first URI value to the second URL:
Redirect /path-to-redirect http://modwest.com/
This would reroute, for example, http://yoursite.com/path-to-redirect/index.php to http://modwest.com
PHP HTTP Header Redirect
In any PHP script, before actual HTML output has started, you can use the header() function to insert a location header, instantly redirecting the browser:
header('Location: http://modwest.com/')
Apache mod_rewrite Redirect
This is the most difficult but powerful of these four methods. In the example below, with code living in a .htaccess file, any traffic will redirect to modwest.com. You imagination and the documentation above can produce other endless possibilities.
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule .* http://modwest.com [R]

User-Contributed Notes

steffi -at- evolv.com
02-Jun-2008 10:07

For search engine friendly 301 redirects where you want to redirect a
previous website or a non-www site to a www site (in order to avoid
search engines from ranking them as two duplicate sites), see the
following webpage: http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

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