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Redirect by IP?

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Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:01am
pwog
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Hi,

I would like to know how to do the following:

If someone from the UK does a search in Google.com, and clicks on the link to come to my .com, I detect their IP address is UK based before serving them content, and redirect them to the page they requested on my co.uk domain.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul

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Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:01am
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pearsoneg
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Here is a good explanation of

Here is a good explanation of the relationship between IPs and location:

http://whatismyipaddress.com/find-me

I haven't done this myself, but here are the likely steps:

1. Identity the IP address of incoming http requests
2. Use a 3rd party web service (or create your own ip/country lookup table) to id the country of origin
3. Then send the appropriate web site back to the requestor.

Erik Pearson

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Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:07am
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pearsoneg
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Cookies

You could instead use a cookie to keep track of which site they choose to use (after asking them to id their country of origin when they first visit your page).

Erik Pearson

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Thu, 09/09/2010 - 2:37pm
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pwog
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Thanks, Erik. HAve you ever

Thanks, Erik. HAve you ever seen this application? http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip

It seems that I could use this and then just use one of the supplied APIs to redirect the user to the proper site. Does that sound correct?

Paul

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Thu, 09/09/2010 - 6:31pm
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pearsoneg
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Haven't seen that one, but

Haven't seen that one, but something like that should work. It looks like it's for Apache, but if you are using a different server, I'm sure there is a similar mod for whatever server you are using.

Erik

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