How to use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] correctly in php?

I wouldn’t recommend using HTTP_REFERER: It’s fairly simple to manipulable in browser. Some users might have security settings in their browser to not send this header at all. It’s not accessible over HTTPS. Some proxies strip this header from the request Added – See answer to this quesion As Charlotte Dunois stated in the comment, … Read more

htaccess – Redirect to subfolder without changing browser URL

Sorry, just realised what is happening. It has nothing to do with the second .htaccess file in the subdirectory, as mentioned in comments. Since public is a physical directory on the file system, you need to include a trailing slash when internally rewriting to that directory. Otherwise, mod_dir is going to try to “fix” the … Read more

ExpressJS : res.redirect() not working as expected?

The problem might not lie with the backend, but with the frontend. If you are using AJAX to send the POST request, it is specifically designed to not change your url. Use window.location.href after AJAX’s request has completed (in the .done()) to update the URL with the desired path, or use JQuery: $(‘body’).replaceWith(data) when you receive the HTML back from … Read more

How to redirect a URL path in IIS?

Taken from Microsoft Technet. Redirecting Web Sites in IIS 6.0 (IIS 6.0) When a browser requests a page or program on your Web site, the Web server locates the page identified by the URL and returns it to the browser. When you move a page on your Web site, you can’t always correct all of the … Read more