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I'm looking for advice on how to redirect a user to one of our country sites, based on their IP and wondered if anyone has done this with ExpressionEngine?

Additionally, I need to provide users with a way to circumvent this - similar to what happens with Google where you can click a link that can take you to the .com site if you don't wish to view the .co.uk site.

I have IP to Nation installed and updated, but unsure if this would be needed.

Thanks.

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  • From a UX perspective, I think is really annoying to be redirect without my consent. I suggest you to show a message and a link the site of the user's country. Otherwise, you gonna need to use cookies and JS to deal with the users who want to visit the foreign site. – Robson Sobral May 11 '13 at 18:50
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Because of parse order, the ip_to_nation module just works on channel:entries or comments. The necessary {ip_address} variable is a global variable, which means it is parsed after the variables of ip_to_nation.

You should use IPGeo add-on to get the visitor's location info based on IP address like:

{exp:ipgeo}

{if country == 'India'}

{exp:redirecturl url="http://examplesite.in"}

{/if}

{/exp:ipgeo}

You can see for the redirect, I used plugin http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/redirecturl-ee2-plugin as standard global variable {redirect} wouldn't work here.

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  • @doubleplusgood: if my answer is fit for your question, can you please mark it as solution. – Bhashkar Yadav Apr 11 '13 at 16:51
  • Will do. It's part why there as I still need a way to circumvent this so if a user does actually want to visit the UK site, but the above will help in the short term. – doubleplusgood Apr 11 '13 at 18:33

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