On a web site of mine, I want visitors who are referred from one specific domain to be taken to a special page on the site, while everyone else continues to see the normal home page.

And the reason I know I'm not a monk yet is because it was only after three days of wrangling with Apache mod_rewrite, trying unsuccessfully to bend it to my will, that I realized I could just use perl: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(referer redirect);

# index.cgi

my $site = 'http://mysite.com/';
my $newpage = 'newpage.html';
my $home = 'index.html';
my $q = new CGI;
if ($q->referer =~ /thatdomain/){
print redirect($site . $newpage);
}
else { print redirect($site . $home); }

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And then in my .htaccess file I say

DirectoryIndex index.cgi

and I'm done!

Three days!!!

I hope someday to get to where maybe only a day and a half goes by before I reach for perl. Will I be a monk then? :)

In reply to How I know I'm not a monk yet by mojodaddy

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