January 20, 2010

How to delay a header redirect with PHP

Category: Uncategorized, khadlock at 12:27 pm

Sometimes you need to show some page content before redirecting a page, like a successful login message, etc. Here's an easy way to delay a header redirect with PHP without using a Meta tag to refresh the page.

header("Refresh: 1; URL=http://www.studiosedition.com");

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January 6, 2010

403 forbidden with WordPress

Category: WordPress, khadlock at 1:56 pm

After hours of debugging a 403 forbidden error with a WordPress blog we finally found the issue. Some servers require the following line of code before the default mod_rewrite code provided by WordPress:

Options +FollowSymLinks

So your updated mod_rewrite will look similar to this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]