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How to create an App (Tile) on the My Apps Dashboard with a redirect?

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    • imc67I Offline
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      wrote on last edited by girish
      #1

      I got a user request to add a "Tile"/app to the My Apps Dashboard that only leads to an external URL (our NAS in this case).

      How can I do that easily?

      (I tried Surfer but php neither htaccess redirections worked)

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        #3

        What @fbartels said. Put this in index.html or surfer (replace url):

        <!DOCTYPE html>
        <html>
           <head>
              <title>HTML Meta Tag</title>
              <meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "2; url = https://www.cloudron.io" />
           </head>
           <body>
              <p>Will redirect shortly to https://www.cloudron.io/.</p>
           </body>
        </html>
        
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        • imc67I imc67

          I got a user request to add a "Tile"/app to the My Apps Dashboard that only leads to an external URL (our NAS in this case).

          How can I do that easily?

          (I tried Surfer but php neither htaccess redirections worked)

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          App Dev
          wrote on last edited by
          #2

          @imc67 surfer is a node app, it does not support php or understand .htaccess. the one thing that should work however is simple html:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

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            wrote on last edited by
            #3

            What @fbartels said. Put this in index.html or surfer (replace url):

            <!DOCTYPE html>
            <html>
               <head>
                  <title>HTML Meta Tag</title>
                  <meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "2; url = https://www.cloudron.io" />
               </head>
               <body>
                  <p>Will redirect shortly to https://www.cloudron.io/.</p>
               </body>
            </html>
            
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            • girishG girish

              What @fbartels said. Put this in index.html or surfer (replace url):

              <!DOCTYPE html>
              <html>
                 <head>
                    <title>HTML Meta Tag</title>
                    <meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "2; url = https://www.cloudron.io" />
                 </head>
                 <body>
                    <p>Will redirect shortly to https://www.cloudron.io/.</p>
                 </body>
              </html>
              
              jdaviescoatesJ Offline
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              wrote on last edited by
              #4

              @girish I just tried doing that just to try it out, worked perfectly

              https://testing.uniteddiversity.org/

              I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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              • girishG girish

                What @fbartels said. Put this in index.html or surfer (replace url):

                <!DOCTYPE html>
                <html>
                   <head>
                      <title>HTML Meta Tag</title>
                      <meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "2; url = https://www.cloudron.io" />
                   </head>
                   <body>
                      <p>Will redirect shortly to https://www.cloudron.io/.</p>
                   </body>
                </html>
                
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                imc67
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                wrote on last edited by
                #5

                @girish this works!!! Thanks for the hint.

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                  wrote on last edited by
                  #6

                  I did it using the LAMP app. Just edit the .htaccess within /app/data/public/

                  RewriteEngine On 
                  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^lampapp.domain.com [NC]
                  RewriteRule (.*) https://target.domain.com/$1 [R=302,L]
                  
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                    #7

                    To follow up here, the next release 7.3 has built-in support for external links in the dashboard, so it will be unnecessary to install some trampoline app like surfer or lamp.

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