Redirection

I'm trying to use redirection to secure certain pages on my site. The
theory is to check to see if a user is "logged in" at the top of a
page, and if not, redirect them to a login page.

A typical web page will look like this:


<html>
<body>
<p>Secure Content Here</p>
</body>
</html>

The secure.php file looks like this:

<?
session_start();

$schema = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == '443' ? 'https' : 'http';

// Check to see if the user is logged in.
if (! isset($_SESSION["userid"]))
{
header("Location: " . $schema .
exit();
}

?>

This all works fine in ASP. In PHP, however, I can't seem to get the
redirect to work. If I just type the secure.php URL directly into the
browser's address bar, it will redirect properly. If I call the page
I want to secure (either with a .html or a .php extension), it just
seems to ignore the redirect.

Any idea why?

Jul 17 '05 #1

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David Mackenzie

On 19 Jul 2004 09:09:44 -0700, br***@chameleon-systems.com (Bryan)
wrote:

I'm trying to use redirection to secure certain pages on my site. The
theory is to check to see if a user is "logged in" at the top of a
page, and if not, redirect them to a login page.

A typical web page will look like this:


<html>
<body>
<p>Secure Content Here</p>
</body>
</html> This all works fine in ASP. In PHP, however, I can't seem to get the
redirect to work. If I just type the secure.php URL directly into the
browser's address bar, it will redirect properly. If I call the page
I want to secure (either with a .html or a .php extension), it just
seems to ignore the redirect.

If the page you want to secure is a .php, you need only use:

include("secure.php");

HTH,

--
David ( @priz.co.uk )

Jul 17 '05 #2

Bryan

David Mackenzie <me@privacy.net> wrote...

If the page you want to secure is a .php, you need only use:

include("secure.php");

That was the issue. It was a .html page, not a .php page. ASP (or
more accurately, IIS) will allow you to do this, but apparently PHP
and/or Apache won't.

I ended up figuring out exactly what you suggested, and it worked.

Thanks for the response.

Bryan

Jul 17 '05 #3