how to redirect html into a url

Question

I am not sure if this is possible.

This is the name of the site: www.mysite.com

and I created an html (named index.html) & saved it to the folder myfile which is a redirect to this site www.mysite.com/myfile

Now on the site, I have a content here that if you click on it, it will direct you to this: www.mysite.com/documentation

Now the redirect html I made, I would like it to be redirected to the documentation

so that if you click on www.mysite.com/myfile - it will open the www.mysite.com/documentation but this documentation is not an html its inside the cms.

Is that possible?

Btw here is the html code I saved in the index.html. Do I have to insert the url here: www.mysite.com/documentation?

CONSTRUCTION PAGE

Jarco · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-04T09:53:24.440

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Is this what you need?

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.mysite.com/documentation">

I have trouble understanding your question correctly. So I am unsure if this will help you.

Edit for valid html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Redirect</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.mysite.com/documentation" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

edited Jan 04 '12 at 09:53

answered Jan 04 '12 at 09:37

Jarco

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Sorry about it. But I think you still understood what I meant. ITs also difficult for me as I'm not familiar with the terminologies. This is what I did now. and it looks like it works but when I tried to validate this to this site: http://validator.w3.org/ I got 3 errors. Not sure if the html I have is wrong: – tintincutes Jan 04 '12 at 09:43
– tintincutes Jan 04 '12 at 09:44
Why would you want to validate the redirect? – Jarco Jan 04 '12 at 09:50
does it have a disadvantage? I was told that I need to validate. Is it necessary? – tintincutes Jan 04 '12 at 10:11
Its good practice yes. But a making a redirect valid is imho a little bit to thorough. – Jarco Jan 04 '12 at 10:15
is it possible to redirect a site to a pdf file? – tintincutes Jan 04 '12 at 11:51
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/6380/discussion-between-tintincutes-and-jarco) – tintincutes Jan 04 '12 at 12:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '12 at 02:26

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Use document type weblink on modx

answered Jan 05 '12 at 02:26

GusDeCooL

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 05 '12 at 13:30

As Gus suggested, use a weblink.

Create a new weblink with alias myfile, and the content should be a link to www.mysite.com/documentation.

Then if you visit www.mysite.com/myfile it will take you directly to www.mysite.com/documentation.

For more info: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Weblink

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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As the others have already said, a weblink in modX would be the way to go.

I answered this already in more detail in your other question with essentially the same topic.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Jan 26 '12 at 19:57

bfncs

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how to redirect html into a url

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