Question

Well, I want to have a redirect script on my server.

I want it to take the text after the URL, and redirect it to a website.

The one I have right now looks like this:

<?php

$url = $_GET['url'];
header("Location: http://youtube.com/watch?v=".$url);
?>

That makes the URL looks like : http://mywebsite.com/?url=YOUTUBE CODE HERE

But, I don’t want it to look like that, I want the URL to look like this : http://mywebsite.com/YOUTUBE CODE HERE
and that will redirect the user to the YouTube video.

Thanks

Answer 1

to achieve that, you need to use .htaccess and mod_rewrite on apache, or a similar technology.

basic examle:

/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^v/(.*)$ v/index.php?url=$1 [L]

/v/index.php:

<?php 
  $url = $_GET['url'];
  header("Location: http://youtube.com/watch?v=" . $url);
?>