a referer deflector page

send users to where they need to go

[winglian]

I was hoping to use mod_rewrite to send users to a specific page on the site. This will all be manually coded since I am simply checking my referers and deciding which page/content is appropriate.

Here's the snippet from my httpd.conf. I've commented it out since it doesn't work

# check for who the referer is and if they are coming to the main site from the referer page, send to another specific page
# still buggy, needs work
# RewriteMap deflector txt:/var/www/website/.htdeflector
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!=""
# RewriteCond %{REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI}!="/"
# RewriteCond ${SCRIPT_URL} ^[^a-zA-Z.]$
# RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}¦NOT-FOUND}!=NOT-FOUND
# RewriteRule ^.* ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}}? [R=301,L]

and of course the .htdeflector file would be something like

[somereferingsite1.com...] /pageforsite1.html
[somereferingsite2.com...] /pageforsite2.html

however, when i use this, it usually ends up in an endless loopl since, even after the redirect, it still brings up the referer as the original refering page.

Thanks
Wing Lian

[jdMorgan]

Just use another RewriteCond to prevent a rewrite if the URl is already "/pageforsite1.html".

RewriteMap deflector txt:/var/www/website/.htdeflector
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
[b]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [i][/i]!^/pageforsite1\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [i][/i]!^/pageforsite2\.html$[/b]
RewriteCond %{REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI} !^/$
#RewriteCond ${SCRIPT_URL} ^[^a-zA-Z.]$
RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}¦NOT-FOUND} !^NOT-FOUND$
RewriteRule ^.* ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}}? [R=301,L]

I left that one line commented-out, because I don't know what you're intending to do with it.

Jim