How to best redirect from a subfolder to a phpwcms page?

[spirelli]

OK, here is a question.

At the moment I am redirecting visitors from http://www.domain.net/subfolder to a phpwcms page using

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.domain.net/phpwcmspage.phtml">

I also have a message on these redirecting pages saying

"redirecting... click here if nothing happens"

However I have heard that:

Actually some browsers allow you to surpress meta redirects and according to the web accessibility guidelines you shouldn't redirect with this technique.
You can also redirect on the server directly or via an SSI, for example PHP:

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<?PHP header('Location:otherfile.html'); ?>

My concern is that I really would like to get rid of the message on the redirecting pages in order for the visitor not to notice so much that he/she is redirected. So I wonder which technique to use in order to make 100% sure that visitors end up on the page they are supposed to end up. Please let me know your opinion.
Thanks.

[spirelli]

ok, found the solution with including a .htaccess file in the subfolder with the content:

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Redirect /subfolder/ http://www.domain.net/index.php?alias

Much better than META tag!

[brans]

[R=301]

means that also search engines wont index your old page anymore
(place this flag at the end of the line that was posted above.

[spirelli]

thanks for your reply. can you explain a bit more how this works and what it means, please?

[brans]

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Ok man first have a look at this:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

and then you will already understand a lot more. I have then a look
at this:
http://www.altaway.com/support/htaccess.html#5

and if you have understood those two tuts have a look at the example showing up a solution for your problem
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/r ... e.html#url here.

I hope this will help you in using mod_rewrite in the future, it is very powerful!
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German Post:
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Alle Deutschsprachigen sollten sich einfach mal unter folgender
Url umschauen: http://www.modrewrite.de
Ich persönlich halte diese Seite für die beste im Netz (inklusive aller englischsprachigen, die ich bisher gefunden habe).
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[spirelli]

ok, understood: [R=301] is the status-code for "Moved Permanently". Thanks.

[brans]

yes thats it