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JP
WB28 - Redirect WB long URL
October 13, 2023 05:59PM
Hi All

How can I redirect the WebDev 28 long URL to the main domain only?

For example, the long WB28 URL is:

https :// www.mydomain.com/PROJECTNAME_WEB/index.awp

I want to just let users go to: https :// www.mydomain.com

I know the frameset trick BUT - putting the long URL into a <frameset> inside a default.htm causes WebDev to lose the ability to dynamically resize the pages according to browser width changes. It redirects to the long URL OK but I lose this functionality and thus lose the use of different layouts for browser size. It uses only the layout according to the initial browser width and does not change when I subsequently resize the browser. If I use the given long URL then as I change the browser width the page dynamically uses the appropriate layout.

TIA



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2023 06:54PM by JP.
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MediOffice
Re: WB28 - Redirect WB long URL
October 14, 2023 08:36AM
I would also love a solution to this. I've also tried the iframe concept and hit the same issues (and others) that you have.

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Argus
Re: WB28 - Redirect WB long URL
October 15, 2023 08:43PM
there are several solutions... frameset is just one of them.... redirect seems to be what you are looking for

Details of several solutions available here: [www.kalanda.net]
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JP
Re: WB28 - Redirect WB long URL
October 16, 2023 02:54PM
Argus

Thanks, that worked for me, solved the problem. Many thanks smiling smiley
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MediOffice
Re: WB28 - Redirect WB long URL
October 17, 2023 09:19AM
JP, are you able to describe what you have done - I am very interested.
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JP
Re: WB28 - Redirect WB long URL
October 17, 2023 10:09AM
MediOffice

Several solutions are given on that page Argus linked to. Which one to use is dependent on the type of website you have (i.e. static, dynamic, AWP).

I was using the frameset redirect option but that caused me to lose the automatic re-scaling of my AWP pages when the browser window was resized.

Now I am using the JavaScript option described as follows:

<HTML>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
window.document.location="/votreprojet_web/fr/page.awp";
</SCRIPT>
</HTML>

... where the part "/votreprojet_web/fr/page.awp" should be replaced by your long WebDev URL staring at the PROJECTNAME_WEB name of your project and the "page.awp" should be the loading page of your site which in my case is "index.awp"

So the end-result for me was the following - create a default.htm file (assuming default.htm is your default file for the website set up under IIS in my case) and in that file I have:

<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>My Company Name</TITLE>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN">
<meta name="description" content="A short description of my company for robots and similar">
<meta name="keywords" content="A selection of keywords and phrases for search engines">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="robots" content="All">

</HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
window.document.location="/MYPROJECTNAME_WEB/index.awp";
</SCRIPT>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2023 10:10AM by JP.
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