Take the 2-minute tour ×

Iam working on Ubuntu.(Linux)

I want to redirect from the page one.php to two.php, which are in a folder 'test'

How can i do this, using  .htaccess file?
Any other setting is needed for this?
Or .htaccess redirection will not  work for local system
share|improve this question

3 Answers 3

up vote 3 down vote accepted

It should work fine. Assuming the URL is http://localhost/test/one.php:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /test/
RewriteRule ^one\.php$ two.php [L]

That'll do an invisible redirection—the browser won't know, and won't show it in the URL. If you want to do a different kind of redirect, you can specify R=### in the flags, where ### is the HTTP status code. For example, to perform a permanent redirect:

RewriteRule ^one\.php$ two.php [R=301,L]
share|improve this answer
Thank you very much. Let me know How to change all .php pages to .html in 'test' folder, using .htaccess –  Linto Apr 7 '10 at 10:59
You should be able to do something along the lines of: RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ $1.php [L]. That'll redirect xyz.html to xyz.php silently. –  Samir Talwar Apr 7 '10 at 13:30

the question title says "using .Htaccess", but in the last line of the question you said .htacess are not working.

so here is a solution without using .htaccess at all.

you could add a simple function in one.php file to send headers to the client (the web browser for example) to resend the request to the second address, say: two.php.

open file one.php and add this line of code in it:

header('Location: two.php');

make sure you have print/echo anything (even a simple space character) before this code. because this line sends the HTTP header to the client, but if you output anything before this line, it would have gone in the body so headers will be closed.

share|improve this answer

In your test folder, you can put a .htaccess file, with the RewriteRule to do that redirection :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule one.php two.php

With this, the page executed on the server would be two.php ; but the URL in the browser would still be one.php

Depending on whether you want this redirection to be seen from the user, you'll to set, or not, the redirection code, and use, or not, the [R] flag.

For a permanent redirection, that would appear in the browser (i.e. the URL would really become two.php in the browser's address bar), you'd use :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule one.php two.php [R=301]

For more informations, you can take a look at the URL Rewriting Guide

share|improve this answer

Your Answer


