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

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)

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>

fbartels

@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

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>

jdaviescoates

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

https://testing.uniteddiversity.org/

imc67

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

subven

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]

nebulon

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.

Cloudron makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server. Find out more or install now.

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