URL redirection is a technique for making web resources available under more than one URL address, or moved to a different location while maintaining compatibility with previously published URLs.

URL redirection, or URL forwarding, is a technique for making web resources available under more than one URL address, or moved to a different location while maintaining compatibility with previously published URLs.

URL redirection can be set-up on a web server handling web requests, attached to web application's response headers and handled by a user-agent, or handled through a client-side script.