301 redirect to an external site [Solved]

[eluser]ajitabhpandey[/eluser]
@noctrum, thanks. I never tried external URL with that function. I think sometimes we can not trust the docs fully ;-)

@Stenna, I never wanted to use the .htaccess method of redirection as that is not the requirement of the application. I was looking for a CI way of doing this stuff and it turns out that the redirect function can do that.

Thanks all for participating in the discussion and coming up with suggestions.