Thread: redirecting users coming from a specific site only?

Is there a way using JavaScript or something to redirect users coming to a page on my site from a specific website? Basically, another site out there has linked an odd page on my site and their users enter my site this way. I'd like to force anyone coming from that specific site and using that link to be redirected to my index page? Is this feasible???

Thanks for your help!

The only thing I can think of right now is to upload a .htaccess file into the directory where the link is. The .htaccess should contain something like DirectoryIndex /
. This would allow any visitors that go to a page that does not exist to be redirected to your main index page.

If you have another index file inside that directory, then you will have to add it into the .htaccess file also. Like, DirectoryIndex / index.html index.php


Another way is to setup a 404 error to redirect to the main page.

well, the page they are accessing is not an error page, it's a valid page on the site but they shouldn't be hitting it without going through the entrance of the site.

aha... I understand now!! Here's the code for .htaccess to do this;

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.referingurl.com/
RewriteRule /* http://www.yoursite.com/ [R,L]

hey, thanks! I'll try that too. I actually found a work around in the meantime. The site linking us does it within a frameset so I just place a script on my page forcing the page to reload (to my index page) if it originally is loaded from within a frameset. That seems to work fine at least until they stop linking me from within a frameset.

If anyone needs a script like I described try this;

<script>

if (window!= top)
top.location.href=document.location.href = 'index.html';

</script>