How do you redirect based on IP address?

[meeble3]

So I want to automatically forward people to a page depending on what country they are from.

So if they are from America they go to page one, Canada page 2 etc.

How do you do this? Is there a website that shows the IP range for each country in the world?

How accurate is it doing it like this?

Thanks...

 

[Chacalinc]

If I my memory don't fails me, you can do it with javascript... don't remember exact code but you could search in the web.

Basically what the javascript does is ask to the user PC (or browser) regarding the local seting (locales), so if your PC is set for an i.e. french locales, so it redirect the user to a french site.

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With a quick search I found something that can guide you, it redirects according to the language settings:

Find the language setting of the brwoser

Determine the user's language setting and redirect to the appropriate language homepage


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">
<!-- Begin
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape')
var language = navigator.language;
else
var language = navigator.browserLanguage;
if (language.indexOf('en') > -1) document.location.href = 'English.html';
else if (language.indexOf('nl') > -1) document.location.href = 'dutch.html';
else if (language.indexOf('fr') > -1) document.location.href = 'french.html';
else if (language.indexOf('de') > -1) document.location.href = 'german.html';
else if (language.indexOf('ja') > -1) document.location.href = 'japanese.html';
else if (language.indexOf('it') > -1) document.location.href = 'italian.html';
else if (language.indexOf('pt') > -1) document.location.href = 'portuguese.html';
else if (language.indexOf('es') > -1) document.location.href = 'Spanish.html';
else if (language.indexOf('sv') > -1) document.location.href = 'swedish.html';
else if (language.indexOf('zh') > -1) document.location.href = 'chinese.html';
else
document.location.href = 'English.html';
//   -->
</script>

this code comes from

http://www.generalhosting.com/scripts/javascripts.htm

 

[meeble3]

Thanks but how does it tell America from Canada or Britain? They all speak English...

 

[Chacalinc]

hmmm... I did a little search and your are not the only one.. this is a bit old but talks on the same thing:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum24/339.htm

and the navigator object can not say too much about the location:

http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/dom_obj_navigator.asp

I guess some vbs can do something, but I declare myself incompetent...

you could ask in the javascript forum or vbs forum.

 

[jpadie]

you can use the incoming server variable and then use an external library to link to the country of the tld. i believe that there are some (free) perl libraries that do this. also have a look at

http://www.mobileworkersolutions.com

(which sell a service to do this - I have no affiliation for the avoidance of doubt)