I am setting up a small website on Joomla and came across a weird redirect problem.
I wanted to include a link in my website to a Forum that is set up in a different server.
When I type or copy/paste the forum url in the browser, it works perfectly: http://www.techcomputerworld.com/almeriarocketry/
This is the request/response:
Request URL:http://www.techcomputerworld.com/almeriarocketry/
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headersview source
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Cookie:phpbb3_gu83i_u=1; phpbb3_gu83i_k=; phpbb3_gu83i_sid=5d7245ace142f186e3049d7666c528d7; __utma=214190226.1703438907.1378288831.1378288831.1378288831.1; __utmb=214190226.1.10.1378288831; __utmc=214190226; __utmz=214190226.1378288831.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); style_cookie=null
Host:www.techcomputerworld.com
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57 Safari/537.36
Response Headersview source
Cache-Control:private, no-cache="set-cookie"
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Length:3805
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:05:56 GMT
Expires:0
Keep-Alive:timeout=10, max=29
Pragma:no-cache
Server:Apache
Vary:Accept-Encoding
So I happily inserted a link in my website to that URL. But when I click it, the server throws a 302 redirect to another, completely different location:
Request URL:http://www.techcomputerworld.com/almeriarocketry/
Request Method:GET
Status Code:302 Found
Request Headersview source
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Cookie:__utma=214190226.1703438907.1378288831.1378288831.1378288831.1; __utmc=214190226; __utmz=214190226.1378288831.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); phpbb3_gu83i_u=1; phpbb3_gu83i_k=; phpbb3_gu83i_sid=a6f51f7f13a419b2ba46137a8cd6fc3b; style_cookie=null
Host:www.techcomputerworld.com
Referer:http://clubaereotabernas.net/index.php/el-club/instalaciones
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57 Safari/537.36
Response Headersview source
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:313
Content-Type:text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date:Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:56:33 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=10, max=30
Location:http://schiedsrichterge.bplaced.net/acwf.html?h=719406
Server:Apache
The only different that I can see is the referrer header, but I tried to simulate exactly the same values on my REST client and the call returned a 200.
I am experiencing this in Safari, Firefox, Chrome. It doesn't redirect when using IE8.
I have access to the server and can change anything in it, but have no idea where this configuration would be located.
Any help, much appreciated, thanks.