Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Redirecting all users using Mobile devices to a specific URL

To redirect all the incoming requests from mobile devices to a sub-directory or a specific URL in IBM HTTP Server follow below steps: Open C:\IBM\HTTPServer\conf\httpd.conf file in edit mode. 1. Un-comment following live in the file by removing "#" from the front of the line. #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so 2. Enable rewrite engine by adding following line to the end of the file: RewriteEngine on 3. Add rewrite condition for the detecting mobile devices after the above line using the below example: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|ipad|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC] 4. Add rewrite rule for redirecting the user to specific URL after the above line using the below example RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mobile.example.com/wps/portal [L,R=302] 5. Save the file 6. Restart IBM HTTP Server. Now all user requests will be redirected to "http://mobile.example.com/wps/portal" sub URL.

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