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Fri, 14 October 2011 07:31

Arno Welzel
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justaguy, 2011-10-14 05:00:

> Hi,
>
> I wonder how we can accomplish this task?
> Say, a user from India lands at http://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.html
> (actually it would be http://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.php )
> I'd like to direct this visitor to http://bla.bla.bla.bla.in/download.html
>
> And if the user is from China
> it would be redirected to http://bla.bla.bla.bla.cn/download.html
> so and so forth.
>
> This approach would be more elegant if easily doable. If so how?

You can use a GeoIP database (e.g. <http://www.maxmind.com/app/php>)
which gives you a rough location based on the IP address of the client.
This doesn't make sence of course without servers actually located in
different countries.

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		How to redirect user based on user country? By: justaguy on Fri, 14 October 2011 03:00
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 14 October 2011 07:31
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: justaguy on Fri, 14 October 2011 09:42
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 14 October 2011 11:18
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: houghi on Fri, 14 October 2011 17:09
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: justaguy on Sat, 15 October 2011 15:25
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 14 October 2011 09:53

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