How to create redirects by country?

Question

How can I create redirects by country?

I mean, suppose I get a visitor from Mexico, then you’d have to redirect to meusite.com/mx/, already if I receive a visit from Brazil go to meusite.com/br/ or even if you receive a visit from Portugal redirect to meusite.com/pt/, etc....

How can I do this? What is the best solution?

Answer 1

You can use some features.

When the browser has access to geolocation

You can use javascript to get the request geolocation. However, you will have to know that longitude A and latitude B, is part of country X. I believe this will generate you some work:

if(navigator.geolocation) {
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
            var la = position.coords.latitude;
            var lo = position.coords.longitude; console.log([la, lo]);
        });
    }

Rely on the ip that made the request

There are companies that give you the exact location of the request based on ip, for example, the company: https://www.maxmind.com/

Deliver what the user wants to see (as the staff usually does)

One of the ways to identify which language the user whether receive the content of the post (the answer) is evaluating the variable Accept-Language that comes in the request.

For example, in php it would be:

<?php
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']; 
// "en-US,en;q=0.8"

In this case, the user accepts (wishes to) receive the content in en-US. So, you know exactly where to redirect a post that comes from meusite.com/ for meusite.com/en for example.

This is the most common way of identifying "where the user comes from", because the user usually configures what he wants to receive according to the place he is: if he is in the United States - en-US, if he is in Brazil - en-BR. However, this is not a rule. Some users can configure their browsers en-US, be in Brazil and ignore all other languages. So this way of identifying the language is not based on where the user is, but rather what the user wants to receive - which is much better in my understanding.

If the user is Japanese and is in Brazil, the ideal is to redirect him to meusite.com/jp, whereas this user will be more comfortable with his native language.

To redirect in PHP

$lang = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
header("Location: http://www.meusite.com/$lang" ) ;