PHP How to header-location to a page in a parent directory?

Question

I have a first.php page with

header("Location: script/script1.php")

and script1.php has another

header("Location: first.php") 

but it sends me obviously to /script/first.php. Is there a way to redirect it to <root>/first.php instead of <root>/script/first.php?

Answer 1

have a try with this:

header("Location: ../first.php")

or use an absolute path or url instead.

Explanation: .. is the unix/linux expression used for 'parent directory'. The Internet is unix land, so that rules applies there too.

Answer 2

Instead of: header("Location: ../first.php")

try with this: header("url: ../first.php")

this will change the url.Using location don't work in some cases

Since: '../' is to denote 'parent directory'.So,this will work.

Answer 3

You can do this. Redirects back to the Home directory (Root) in '0' seconds -

<?php

     header('Refresh: 0, url = /Root_Dir/');

?>

Replace the 'Root_Dir' with your directory name.