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Can I redirect web page to another?

Jun 05 09 1:00 am

Hi wingate team,
Can i redirect a web page to another? EX. when some body request yahoo.com he gose to another page. (But from wingate not from lmhost file)
also what dose the webserver tab do in the www proxy server i tried it but it didn't work?

Re: Can I redirect web page to another?

Jun 05 09 4:25 pm

It's possible, but not exactly user friendly. WinGate 7.x will make this easy to do.

Basically, you need to use the Web Server section of the proxy to redirect the connections to a different URL, but the Web Server section of the proxy only deals with server requests (i.e. not proxy requests). So in order to make this work, you need to fool the clients into think that WinGate is the web server responsible for yahoo.com. That's acheived using the hosts file. Basic steps are as follows:

1. Add any domain names that you want to redirect to the hosts file and set the IP address as the internet IP address of the WinGate computer

2. Use the Web Server section of the proxy to redirect the request
- Click Add
- In the General tab, set the Action to "Redirect" and specify a new URL to redirect requests to.
- In the Hosts tab, add the hostnames that you want to be redirected, i.e. yahoo.com and www.yahoo.com, etc.

Re: Can I redirect web page to another?

Jun 06 09 12:33 pm

Thanks logan but when wingate 7 will be relased?

Re: Can I redirect web page to another?

Jun 08 09 4:01 pm

I can't reliably answer that question, so excuse me if I dont.

Re: Can I redirect web page to another?

Jun 09 09 12:09 am

Never mind we are waiting from a long long long time ago :)
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