how to redirect domain according to country IP address

Question

I made a site it with some subdomains; according to the country's IP address the user is supposed to be automatically redirected to corresponding subdomain.

Example :

Main site is abcd.com

• Suppose some one from India typed this url abcd.com,
• then the page redirects to ind.abcd.com

Answer 1

Download the geoPlugin class from:

http://www.geoplugin.com/_media/webservices/geoplugin.class.phps

(free lookup limit of 120 requests per minute and block for 1h if crossed the limit. the block will automatically remove 1 hour after the last time your server stopped sending more than 120 requests a minute)

Put a index.php file in your root folder:

<?php require_once('geoplugin.class.php'); $geoplugin = new geoPlugin(); $geoplugin->locate(); // create a variable for the country code $var_country_code = $geoplugin->countryCode; // redirect based on country code: if ($var_country_code == "AL") { header('Location: http://sq.wikipedia.org/'); } else if ($var_country_code == "NL") { header('Location: http://nl.wikipedia.org/'); } else { header('Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/'); } ?> 

Here is a list of country codes:

http://www.geoplugin.com/iso3166

Answer 2

Check that you have the mod_geoip module (GeoIP Extension) installed on your server.

Then, tweak your .htaccess file accordingly :

GeoIPEnable On GeoIPDBFile /path/to/GeoIP.dat  # Start Redirecting countries  # Canada RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^CA$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ca.abcd.com$1 [L]  # India RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IN$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://in.abcd.com$1 [L]  # etc etc etc... 

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And here's the official documentation.