Forward URL by region

[jestew]

If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. I have a domain that I'd like to forward to an affiliate site. The only problem is that the affiliate that I am using has different programs for different countries. So, I need to figure out how to forward visitors from different countries to different landing pages.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MJ]

There are many many different solutions to do it.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip
Above is one way, it should get you on the right track.

 

[jestew]

I couldn't get my hosting service to recognize my .htaccess file.

 

[murrayd77]

Your site might be running under Windows, the information on the site maxmind.com is for Linux based hosting and not Windows. Please check with your hosting company.

You can redirect the user to any URL based upon their IP address.
Ex:

<?
$visitor = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if (preg_match("/111.111.111.1/",$visitor)) {
header('Location: http://www.affiliateURL');
} else {
header('Location: http://www.affiliateURL-1');
};
?>

Hope the above snippet gives you an idea.

-- Dave.

 

[bluearrow]

Your site might be running under Windows, the information on the site maxmind.com is for Linux based hosting and not Windows. Please check with your hosting company.
You can redirect the user to any URL based upon their IP address.
Ex:
<?
$visitor = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if (preg_match("/111.111.111.1/",$visitor)) {
header('Location: http://www.affiliateURL');
} else {
header('Location: http://www.affiliateURL-1');
};
?>
Hope the above snippet gives you an idea.
-- Dave.

This code is good but how do you redirect to a country with IP ? I mean you should use only first 2 dights of the IP addresss or something ? lets say you want to redirect traffic from USA, Canada and UK for one place and rest to another place .. How to do it ?

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[domain_name]

Even we faced the same issue.

A totally free application is available in the following link.

Even if the script is not useful , use the database of complete IP Address.

http://www.ip2country.net/geo-targeting/geo-targeting.html

Link is at bottom of the page

http://www.ip2country.net/download/cr.zip

Do let me know if this serves your purpose.