Question

I’ve got a php file inside this folder structure:

Web -> script -> gen.php

From this gen.php I want to redirect with the location() function in Javascript to

Web->Index.html

I tried to do it like this:

location = "localhost/Web/index.html"

But I only get a 404 error saying that this path is invalid. What is the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

location, in JavaScript, is not a function. It is a property that you can assign a value to.

Any of (assuming Web is exposed on the URL and isn’t just an internal directory):

• http://localhost/Web/index.html
• //localhost/Web/index.html
• /Web/index.html
• index.html

However, redirects should usually be handled with HTTP, so you are likely better off with:

<?php
    header('Location: http://localhost/Web/index.html');
    exit;
?>

(Note that while most browsers will recover from a relative URI in the location header, the specification requires an absolute URI).