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Referrer rule not working

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Referrer rule not working

I may be going down the wrong road here but what I'm trying to do is to track specific url's ( with template switching) for analytics and marketing.

Having said that I'm not having much success in getting a referral url to work and have it switch the template. I have sh404sef installed and have checked that plugin order is correct. The referral rule is set to "contains" and the url is just the domain with a number added to the end ie. www.domain.com/25. This of course is a not existent page but just something to trigger the template change.

When I test it with debug on it comes up with the sh404sef 404 page and the debug  shows it failing with the same url that the 404 error is showing.

There may be a better way to do this so I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks for any help.

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Re: Referrer rule not working

Hi Mobilepro,

If you want to use Chameleon to detect entry pages, then it should be obvious that the URL that you use has to be able to map to a real page on your site. If that url/page does not exist, you're going to get a 404 error as you are doing.

You have these choices:

1 - make the extra part of the URL into part of the query string rather than part of the URL that maps to a separate page. e.g. www.domain.com?25 instead of www.domain.com/25  In this way it will still map to the front page and you won't get a 404.

2 - Instead of that, you could keep the URL you have at the moment, but force a redirect as part of the SUCCEED action. i.e. redirect back to the front page.

Hope that helps,
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Re: Referrer rule not working

Thanks for the response...sorry I probably didn't explain it very well. I'm not so concerned about the 404 error as it's easy enough to do a redirect but the issue was that it won't make the template switch.

Using the Page Url does the template switch correctly but I was trying to see how I can do it using the referral .

After I did the original post I happened to see the video on "switching templates according to the entry URL". That looks like what I need to do.

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