Auto-redirects based on URL

[OnyxSparrow]

Hello people, I've got a little coding puzzle I've been trying to figure out but I'm not quite sure if it's possible and I was wondering if anybody could help me out. Basicly it breaks down like this... I have two domains both pointing to the same website, for our argument "Alpha.com" and "Beta.com". What I'm trying to do is set up an automatic redirect based on which URL is used.

Now I've gotten a piece of code:

<CFIF URL="Beta.com">
<CFLOCATION = "Beta.com/folder">
</CFIF>

Which SHOULD redirect the page automatically redirect the page if someone uses Beta.com but just go to the normal index if someone uses Alpha.com. The problem seems to be that the URL variable itself isn't a usable text string.

So, would anyone know how to detect the actual URL in the browser bar to be used in an equation, or possibly have a better solution to the problem? I'd really apreciate it, I've been banging my head against the wall for a week!

[donkaiser]

The url scope only contains the parameter passed in the url's query string.

You need to use the cgi scope instead.

<cfif cgi.http_host eq "beta.com">
<cflocation url="http://beta.com/folder">
</cfif>

I'm not sure what you're doing but in most cases when hosting two sites on one server you want to set up multi-homing in the web server configuration. Your current solution only handles people coming in to the home page.

[OnyxSparrow]

Thanks alot, I'll see if that works out.

Basically what I'm doing is setting up a bypass for employers who are going to my website to look at my portfolio. I bought a new domain which my host pointed at my current webspace so I could try use one webspace to host two sites... but they want to try to charge me $6 a month to redirect the one domain to a specific folder. I figured I could probably use some handy-dandy CFML to do it myself instead. Since the only people that will be using that domain will be employers going to my index page, that's the only place I need to make the check so it should work just fine!