"redirect" question

[jon321]

hi, i have a page on my website that i don't want surfers to be able to access without viewing the home page first. is there some html coding for this. i also don't have a cgi bin. thanks for any info.
-jon

[mairving]

You could probably do it pretty easy with PHP. Just make a conditional based on HTTP_REFERER. If the referer was not the home page (or any other page on your site) then you would redirect them to the home page. You could also do it using a .htaccess file. Keep in mind though that visitors to your site don't generally like being redirected.

[Statica]

You could try putting something like

   alert ("You came from " + document.referrer);
   if (document.referrer != "http://www.site.com/index.html")
      location.href = "index.html";

Which assumes that your main page is at : index.html
and if the previous page that the user visited was not index.html then the user is pushed to index.html

[drisley]

Above post was edited to handle a scripting problem.

[jon321]

thanks, is that javascript? where do i insert it in the html? inside the head tags? also, i have about 20 pages total. if a user is on a page other than index.html and he clicks a link to the page i want to keep closed off, will that bring him to the index.html page as well? i would want to avoid that. thanks.
-jon

[jon321]

okay, thanks. i got it to work great. i think i can stand having it redirect users even if they already entered through the main page. but if there is some coding that could remedy that, i'd use it. thanks again.
-jon