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Vincent Dapiton Vincent Dapiton 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Show folder structure from the root directory. Vincent — PassionInfinite. PassionInfinite ok Something like the index. And where does it live? Assuming it lives inside CERT , to redirect to dashboard. But aren't those Files not supposed to be helper Files rather that Files that would be exposed to the Public displayed? Do You have any htaccess File in your Project as well?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Hey Clinton thanks for your message, I'm happy to elaborate. First of all, you cannot assume that the window being opened will load in ms like you suggested. Generally speaking, you cannot assume that the window will be successfully opened at all, in any amount of time. The download can also fail leaving the user with no information besides a broken anchor. I guess the trick would be to use a window that closes itself as soon as it is finished loading.

The Javascript for this could be a bit difficult though. Put the code below in the main javascript of the site. FernandoGiroto FernandoGiroto 11 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 3. See more linked questions. Related We also redirect users to some specific conditions in our PHP script. If you want to redirect the users from old page to a new page on a permanent basis then also mention HTTP response code in the header function as shown in the following example, so that search engines transfer 'page rank' from the old page to the new page.

Default '' Moved Temporarily. First, where you place the header function in your index. Second, you can set HTTP status codes to control how the server redirects a user and search engine. For the PHP redirect to work, the header function must execute before any output is sent. Otherwise, you'll likely get an error message that says "headers are already sent. There are different groups of response codes, including redirects.

If the status code is not specified in the header function, then it defaults to With a redirect, browsers will typically cache the page for the session and no longer. Search engines will not typically transfer page rank to the new location either. That makes the redirect ideal for performing site maintenance or other temporary use cases.

This call not only sends the header back to the browser — it also returns a redirect status code. If you would like to set the PHP redirect to be permanent instead of temporary, then you can use the status code