Topic: How to automatically redirect users according to their ip?

[vinnier]

Hi,

Does anyone know a way to redirect users to a certain subpage based on their ip? You know like when sometimes you got to www.samplewebsite.com and it knows that you are from the UK it redirects you to www.samplewebsite.com/uk
and when a user from russia tries to access the website he is redirected to www.samplewebiste.com/ru

[thorpe]

Ips can be found within the $_SERVER array & you can redirect using header().

As for redirecting based on location (is that what your actually asking?) you will need to look into geoip (Google it).

[vinnier]

Thanks. Coulnd't find geoip for free, but found a way to redirect simply by htaccess;

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RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^64\.126\.81\.30$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^75\.117\.244\.27$
RewriteRule .* http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm [R,L]

My question now is, where do I find IPs of all countries? So that I can put in 00.000.000.XXX as a range of ip all for example belonging to Russia. Otherwise I would have to put every single ip separately which would simply be undoable

[XeNoMoRpH1030]

There are plenty of free APIs out there.

You can do grab

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http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=12.215.42.19 with PHP and it will return something like this

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Country: UNITED STATES (US)
  City: Sugar Grove, IL
IP: 12.215.42.19
You can check out http://www.hostip.info/use.html for more information.

One problem is the GeoIP stuff isn't always accurate.

[vinnier]

Thanks but all of this is confusing me...  I am not a pro in those things.
Allow me to kindly ask you to tell me how to get my website to geolocate and redirect users according to their ip?

[teamatomic]

This is the free geoIP csv file

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry



HTH
Teamatomic