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1. jonathanmorgan
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi there,

   We have a website: http://jonathanandsofia.com that we use for updating family and friends about our work in South Africa. We have readers in Sweden, so using Multisite, I've created http://sv.jonathanandsofia.com for our Swedish language content.

   My question is: how can I direct visitors from a Swedish IP automatically to sv.jonathanandsofia.com?

   Many thanks,
   Jonathan

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 6 months ago #

   It is possible to execute country-specific redirects. If you have GeoIP Apache API configured on your server, simply extrapolate the following:

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} SE [NC]
   RewriteRule ^$ http://sv.jonathanandsofia.com [L]

   This method employs country codes (Sweden -- http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt -- in the example).

   Of course, you could also redirect based on country-specific TLD or even IP addresses.

3. jonathanmorgan
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Thanks for your response!
   I actually ended up doing it using the Maxmind Geoip database instead.

4. BoBoswell
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   jonathanmorgan,

   Could you give me a bit of info on how you ended up doing this with Maxmind? I'm trying to do this now and have hit a bit of a roadblock.

   Forgive my ignorance on this, but I have a redirect script that is actually working fine. I just need to know WHERE to put it so that visitors are redirected as soon as they hit my domain.

   Any info is appreciated.

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