How can I redirect to a plain html page from a zend_controller controlled page?

Question

I want to link to a plain html page from a zend_controller controlled page. I have no idea how to do this.I have tried with 'redirect(site/somedir/some.html)' but, of course, that doesn't work. thank you

the html file is located in the public directory of the site = zf-site/public

Answer 1

In your action controller you can do this with:

$this->_redirect('site/somedir/some.html');

But you need also make sure that this some.html is located somewhere in your document root and accessible through web, where all your view scripts are probably above it. In this case if you put this static HTML file into the same folder as other view scripts are - this will not work...

Answer 2

Reply to comments:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|txt|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php

Using the 3rd and 4th line says to not redirect if file or directory exists. You can these 2 lines to your .htaccess file and your .html will be served as normal.