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instantnet

Nov 24 2006, 05:18 PM

Maxmind offers a free geo ip database.

I am looking for some simple htacesss redirect scripts.

Basically all user A from usa get one folder and user B from the rest of the world get another folder

Then if someone from group B tried to access folder B they get redirected back to their designated folder.

I think the maxmind database is a bit overkil for this.

Ideas?

Thanks

mikelbeck

Nov 24 2006, 05:24 PM

I've done this sort of thing for displaying ads on some of my sites... YPN ads are displayed for US visitors, Adsense ads are displayed for all others.

I pulled down a data from ip2nation.com and check the user's IP address against it, if it comes up with "us" they get the YPN ads. I did it in PHP, though, not .htaccess:

CODE

$sql = 'SELECT country FROM ip2nation WHERE ip < INET_ATON("'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'") ORDER BY ip DESC LIMIT 0,1';

list($country) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query($sql));

switch ($country)

{

case 'us': // United States

// show YPN ad

break;

default: // everywhere else

// show Adsense ad

break;

}

You could probably do the same sort of thing with the maxmind database.

I don't know if this helps you or not...

alamak

Jan 7 2008, 06:41 AM

You can sample codes from IP2Location Web site.

http://www.ip2location.com/articles.aspx

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