.htaccess 301 Redirect for Geo-targeting

Like Schults, I know nothing!

I would like to do some geo-targeting and have discovered that the country I am targeting has 167 blocks of ip addresses assigned to them. Some examples are :

58.69.0.0 to 58.69.255.255
58.71.0.0 to 58.71.127.255
61.14.192.0 to 61.14.255.255

The first line in the example goes the whole distance and I thought that I can write (okay, so I copied from another post in this Forum) the code as such:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^58\.69\.
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.philippines.sub.domain.net/ [R=301,L]

Now here are my questions?

1) What is wrong with the above code?
2) How do I end an IP block that does not go the distance? Such as line two in the example above.
3) How do I do multiple blocks? If I were to guess I would do something like the following code correct?

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^58\.69\.
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^61\.14\.192\.
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ philippines.page.html [R=301,L]

Thanks,

Jim

 

Personally I'd look at http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip

However:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^58\.69\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^61\.14\.192\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.philippines.sub.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

That sends the visitor to the same page but on the philippines subdomain.

 

This helps. Thank you.

Jim

 

the a.m. mod_geoip certainly is maintenance friendlier - you just update once a months the free geoip db
else with the htaccess rewrite method
you have to check every few days or weeks for new IP blocks assigned to the Philippines.

make sure you include in your IP blocks all major mobile proiders in the PH such as

smart, globe, pldt, etc besides traditional ISP IP blocks

 

Do you know if the mobile providers are included in the a.m. mod_geoip package? Thanks. Jim

 

I use the free geoIP db for my access_log stats and YES the major mobile ISP show up
smart, globe, pldt
for others i have no experience
if you know of a local ISP IP or another mobile ISP, you may want to test
http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip
the free db is basically the same except only updated once a month and maybe less accurate (city/regional) data