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Re: How to redirect user based on user country? [message #175641 is a reply to message #175637]

Fri, 14 October 2011 11:18

The Natural Philosoph
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justaguy wrote:
> On Oct 14, 3:31 am, Arno Welzel <use...@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
>> justaguy, 2011-10-14 05:00:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I wonder how we can accomplish this task?
>>> Say, a user from India lands athttp://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.html
>>> (actually it would behttp://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.php)
>>> I'd like to direct this visitor tohttp://bla.bla.bla.bla.in/download.html
>>> And if the user is from China
>>> it would be redirected tohttp://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.
>>
>> --
>> Arno Welzelhttp://arnowelzel.dehttp://de-rec-fahrrad.de
>
> All right, thanks, so, it's quite involved.

Yes.

You need to develop and probably manually maintain a database of IP
address blocks versus country.

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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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