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I’m trying to add a navigation item that will redirect the user to a different website.  So I made a new category called ‘Redirect’ and then created a template also called ‘Redirect’. In the template I put;

{redirect="http://www.newsite.org/"}

but this doesn’t work, it just stays on the same page. What did I do wrong?

CelebrationWeb,

Can I ask why you just don’t link to the website directly from the navigation item?
The redirect I believe is just for redirecting to another template.

You could drop some PHP in that template to do the redirect. Make sure to enable PHP for the template

<?php

   header( 'Location: <a href="http://www.newsite.org/">http://www.newsite.org/'</a> ) ;

?>

Hi John,

Still can’t get this to work. I removed all the old stuff that was associated with this including removing the category. I made a new template with only the php redirect, then created a new category and dropped that in the navigation structure. Php is enabled. Now when I click it, it just opens a blank frame on the main site.

What could I possibly be missing here????

Hi CelebrationWeb,

Do you have a link to your site where we can see this? Are you using a frameset? What happens when you navigate to the template directly, are you redirected?

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg,

It’s over here -> http://www.celebration.org/

The two things that I am having trouble with are;

1. When clicking on Ministries->Personal Devotion I am trying to get it to behave the same as when clicking on Get Connected->Personal Devotion.

2. When clicking on Giving->Imagine I need to be redirected to http://imagine.celebration.org

I’ve tried many different things to get this to work like that but all end up really messing things up.

Thanks!

Hi CelebrationWeb,

1. When clicking on Ministries->Personal Devotion I am trying to get it to behave the same as when clicking on Get Connected->Personal Devotion.

As far as I can tell they are the same except for that one url_title has a 1 at the end of it. What is not working with this?

2. When clicking on Giving->Imagine I need to be redirected to http://imagine.celebration.org

Just to confirm you are using categories to generate the navigation on the right-hand sidebar? If so, can you please post the code that you are using for that.

Cheers

Greg

Greg,

On #1 I want that sub-menu to be the same for both. I have them both set-up the same in my categories but only the first one works.

How do I get to the code for my categories?

Hi CelebrationWeb,

This is the same issue as is currently being dealt with in your other thread right? In which case can I merge them or just close this one?

Cheers

Greg

Not really. On this one I just want a sub level navigation item that goes to another site.

Giving/Imagine should go to http://imagine.celebration.org

So I have a template in the Giving group called ‘imagine’ with nothing in it but this…

<?php header('Location: <a href="http://imagine.celebration.org/">http://imagine.celebration.org/'</a>);  ?>

.. but it just gets ignored.

This seems to be the biggest problem for me, trying to get pages to go somewhere other than were they want to go.

It seems that the problem was this;

<?php header(“Location:http://imagine.celebration.org”); exit; ?>

just added the exit and removed the trailing / in the location and this fixed both my problems.

Sounds good. Glad you have a solution. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.