Url re-direct?

dathi1

I want to re direct all Irish IPs to a diffrent homepage other than a default one...or can you redirect by geographical location?....is there an Irish IP list? or some easy way of doing this? running server on free bsd. thhks, D.

Kali

use a tiny piece of javascript/ssi on your main site to forward to the next one.

clientip = "<-#echo var="REMOTE_HOST->";
if(regexp(clientip) == "ie") {
	window.location = "http://www.boards.ie/german";
}

where regexp is whatever regular expression it takes to take the last two letters of the clientip.. im not too familiar with its syntax in javascript

jmcc

Originally posted by Kali
where regexp is whatever regular expression it takes to take the last two letters of the clientip..

Nice code but most Irish ISPs do not use .ie that much. Esat/Eircom tend to use .net. Sorting on IP would be possible but it would need the raw IP for the connection and a list of IPs. Doing the obvious ones would be easy but new IP ranges tend to get added by ISPs (eg Eircom added 213.94.13n for Wexford over the last week or so) all the time.

There is also the possibility of a language check on the browser agent though that is probably even more iffy to implement. The simplest method would be to offer a language option button at the top of the page. (Cheap and nasty solution.)

Regards...jmcc

Bard

Ask them where they're from the first time they come to the site & set a cookie in their browser so that you'll know next time.

Doing it by IP or domain is unreliable.

[edit]: Then again... how does Google do it???

jmcc

Originally posted by Bard

Doing it by IP or domain is unreliable.
Then again... how does Google do it???

By IP. Though their 'pages from ireland' option is b0rked because they use largely the same idea as for user IPs. At least 50% of Irish websites are not hosted on Irish IPs.

Regards...jmcc

lynchie

We used a product before in an application that could return a country code for a particular ip address. The product was from this crowd. I think you are looking for something cheaper than this commerical program so try the folowing one istead - tis a lot cheaper GeoIP