302 error /apache

[Jmacp]

php 5, i am setting up a web server, and have some php redirects well i had someone try and connect, their http_referer is checked by a script and then they are redirected to another script f, well or a start, well after checking the apache log i see they are getting a 302 error.

I am also redirecting my domain name through my domain host back to my server ip, any ideas on whats happening here and how to fix it, from doing some research looks like a redirection loop can cause a 302 error whatever the loop is?

[kows]

php 5, i am setting up a web server, and have some php redirects well i had someone try and connect, their http_referer is checked by a script and then they are redirected to another script f, well or a start, well after checking the apache log i see they are getting a 302 error.

I'm not sure I understand anything you said in this except that you're redirecting things after you look at the referrer, and that they are getting a 302 error. could you clarify? post some code of what you're doing?

what do you mean you're redirecting your domain name to your domain host and back to your IP address? your domain is already binded to the server's IP address according to DNS, I'm not sure why you're doing that?

[penagate]

302 is not an error, it is a redirection code. 4xx and 5xx are the error codes.

[visualAd]

Any HTTP response that starts with 3 means that resource is located elsewhere, be it temporarily or permanently. The new location can be found in the appropriately named response header "Location".

[Jmacp]

Getting complicated.

Well i bought a domain name from some host. They have a section in their control panel called forwarding saying,

Using the web forwarding service you can re-direct all web requests sent to www.mysite.co.uk to a web page you already have on the Internet.

so i put in my ip in the box etc, http://88.109.19.24. But they have a section called DNS managment which they say there is no support for but f changed will affect web forwarding, i have come to the conclusion that the DNS managment is for adding sub domains and pretty similar to web forwarding ?

Well i could use a sub domain so added one again pointing it to my own ip.

Now i can connect to my own server using my full domain with subdomain and now say i connect to www.subd.mysite.co.uk and run script1 which redirects my to script2, script2 redirects me back to scripts one if the $_POST details are invalid or missing.

So as i say i had a friend try and connect and they got a 302 error.

[penagate]

If you bought a domain name you should have control over the A record(s) which point the domain name to IP address(es). Forwarding is not the same thing, it is a service used to automatically redirect requests from the domain name to another location.

If you do not have the ability to add A records then you should contact the host you purchased it from as that rather defeats the purpose of having a domain name.
Either that, or what you have actually purchased is the forwarding service and not a full domain name.


As for the error, the 3xx class of HTTP status codes, as visualAd said, indicate redirection, not an error condition. However, a redirection of a POST request to another domain will usually trigger a warning or error message in the client as it is a sign of a possible malicious hijack and may lead to breach of privacy.