Redirecting a category thumbnail and title to an external site

[BradInOKC]

My gallery is at http://www.builderbobs.com/gallery/floortoceiling/index.php

I am trying to change the place people go to when they click on the category "Coaster Fine Furniture".  I would prefer it redirect them to www.coasterfurniture.com instead of taking them further into my gallery.  Is there a way to do that?  Or can you tell me what file I would need to edit to change the url attached to the link and the thumbnail?  Thank you for your help.

Brad

[Αndré]

You're running cpg1.5.6, but the latest release is cpg1.5.8.

Regarding your question: I'd create a redirection via htaccess, so you don't have to edit something in Coppermine.

[BradInOKC]

I don't think I have access to use .htaccess files...I'll have to check with my web host...  Thanks for the heads up on the version change, didn't know there was an update.

[BradInOKC]

Andre or anyone:  Can you please tell me where to put the .htaccess file in order to redirect a link on my main index page to an external site?  The contents of my .htaccess file are:

Redirect builderbobs.com/gallery/floortoceiling/index.php?cat=42 http://www.coasterfurniture.com

Is that right?  I know this borders on not being coppermine related...but since you suggested it I am hoping you might have some insight for me.  Thank you for any help anyone might offer.

[Αndré]

Put it in the Coppermine directory or any directory above. Change

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Redirect builderbobs.com/gallery/floortoceiling/index.php?cat=42 http://www.coasterfurniture.com
to

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Redirect /gallery/floortoceiling/index.php?cat=42 http://www.coasterfurniture.com
(not tested).

[BradInOKC]

Just won't work...I dunno what it could be.  I've tried moving it to different directories, etc..  thank you for your help though.

Can you tell me which coppermine file I would need to edit to recode it to go to that external url isntead?  Would it be my mysql database i'd have to edit?

[BradInOKC]

I think it has to do with the

?cat=42

at the end of the index.php extension...maybe it won't redirect that way?

[Αndré]

I'm currently not sure. Will perform some tests tomorrow.

[BradInOKC]

Seriously, thank you very much. 

[Αndré]

If you have mod_rewrite enabled, create a .htaccess file with the following content in your Coppermine directory:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=42$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.coasterfurniture.com?

[BradInOKC]

Thank you!!  That worked!