Question

I recently started working with a client that had an index.html file with this in the head:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=http://example.com/">

I deleted this file and added my own index.php file, but mine is being completely ignored because the html page with the redirect seems to be cached by the browser. I know how to get rid of this for me, but is there a way to force the redirect to not occur? This will be in many users cache, just like it was for mine.

For the record, I don’t setup my redirects this way, because of this exact issue. I am dealing with someone else’s code from a long time ago.

So, am I out of luck until user’s caches are cleared or expire? Or is there anything I can do, perhaps with .htaccess, to fix this problem?

WordPress will ultimately be used on this project.

Answer 1

Use .htaccess to redirect to another page that defines no cache for the site, then redirect back to the original index file that was cached.