: Is it possible to do 301 redirects by country? We have a .com website but operate in the UK and the US, we want the .com to 301 to the .co.uk website but for people in the UK only and

@Hamaas447

Using .htaccess

You do this with a simple .htaccess rule by detecting the browsers Accept-Language (read here).

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-language} ^en-GB [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ example.co.uk [L,R=301]


Using PHP

You can do this with a programming language to perform a lookup (I generally use a 3rd party open API) then send the 301 header if it falls within your criteria.

For example, using PHP we can do the following;

<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=". $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET"
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
//There was an error with the curl request
//Don't do anything...
} else {
$res = json_decode($response, true);
if( strtoupper($res->geoplugin_countryCode) == "GB" ) {
//Issue the 301
header("Location: example.co.uk , TRUE, 301);
die;
}
}

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