Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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Need to redirect mobile users to the mobile version of our website
How's it done?
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Whittie
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Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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I told Si this last week, did he not sort it out?
You're re-directing iphones only aren't you, as the site was flash?
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Gary
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And android. It'll be hard to navigate on any device.
all he said it was something to do with the htacces but that was it
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Whittie
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|ipad|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC]
RewriteRule ^siteurltoredirect$ http://theendpointurl.com [R,L]
Just bang that in it, covers 99% of UK phones, so should be alright if you're usin... m.theendpointurl.com its different though, theres a tut somewhere. Let me know if you need it
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Gary
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redireted url will just be the normal url/mobile
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ed
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http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/download/
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Gary
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Pay via twitter or bookface?
not got either 
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Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/download/
I use this works perfectly, you can direct different OS users to different versions to optimise iPhone users etc...
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Dom
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Use htaccess and have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3680463/mobile-redirect-using-htaccess.
$40p/y seems a bit steep for something that essentially can be done for free.....
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noshua
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http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
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ed
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A real man would build their website using semantic HTML5, then use CSS media queries to alter the layout for mobile and tablet users 
Edit: actually looking at the link I posted - I think I meant to share the one noshua put up because I'm sure I never paid for it before.
[Edited on 07-08-2012 by ed]
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Nismo
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I dont think you pay for the one you put up, you can give a donation but theres a free download link too.
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Dom
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Assuming everyone just uses the Rewrite rules rather than doing it server-side (can't think of a valid reason why you'd do it server-side if it's a site wide redirect)?
Ed - CSS media queries isn't a 100% solution for mobile sites, especially when it comes to browser compatibility (although there are JS/JQ workarounds but then you're dependant on JS being enabled).
Edit - You'd also probably also want to change the rewriterule to include paths/passing variables eg -
code:
RewriteRule ^/(.+) http://m.mydomain.com/$1 [R,L]
[Edited on 08-08-2012 by Dom]
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ed
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Server side tests can be useful if you want the user to be able to override the re-direct. Can be annoying if the website kindly redirects you to a mobile site which has limited functionality.
Saying that, I'm sure you could do something fancy with conditional redirects/rewrites if needed to.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Saying that, I'm sure you could do something fancy with conditional redirects/rewrites if needed to.
Not sure about Apache but under Nginx you have cookie access in the configs, so you could give the option of overriding the default mobile site redirection if you wanted.
[Edited on 08-08-2012 by Dom]
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