[users@httpd] redirecting based on the browser locale

[Yusuf Koer <ma...@koer.de>]

Hi,

I would like to redirect to the right community based on the browser locale.
If my browser is set to English locale, Apache should automatically 
redirect to for example mysite.com/en. Is that possible and how would 
the RewriteCond/RewriteRule look like?

Thanks
Yusuf

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Re: [users@httpd] redirecting based on the browser locale

[Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com>]

On 18 Sep 2008, at 10:48, Yusuf Koer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to redirect to the right community based on the  
> browser locale.
> If my browser is set to English locale, Apache should automatically  
> redirect to for example mysite.com/en.

That's called HTTP content negotiation.  RTFM mod_negotiation and  
multiviews
for how to use it.  And change language in your browser prefs to see  
it in action
at (for example) httpd.apache.org - I guess from your .de address you  
might
speak german as well as english, for example.

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Nick Kew

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Re: [users@httpd] redirecting based on the browser locale

[André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>]

Yusuf Koer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to redirect to the right community based on the browser 
> locale.
> If my browser is set to English locale, Apache should automatically 
> redirect to for example mysite.com/en. Is that possible and how would 
> the RewriteCond/RewriteRule look like?
> 
Rule # 1 : the server never knows anything for sure about the client.
Rule # 2 : the server does not know the browser locale, because that's a 
setting that the user can change locally, and it does not tell the 
server about it.

This being said, about the only way I can imagine where you could "kind 
of" guess the browser locale, are the "Accept-Language" and 
"Accept-Charset" HTTP headers that the browser *might* send with his 
requests.
You can check those with SetEnvIf (mod_setenvif) or with RewriteCond 
(mod_rewrite), and use them to do something.
If you are into perl, you could also write a mod_perl add-on 
access-control module that would pretty much allow you to do whatever 
you want.

To see which such headers are being exchanged, an easy way is with the 
Firefox add-on "LiveHttpHeaders", which is a useful add-on in many 
circumstances anyway.
Otherwise, there must exist some Apache add-on module that dumps the 
request headers somewhere.


There is also something in Apache called "content negociation", which 
you might want to look up in the on-line documentation. I don't really 
know if it is applicable in this case, but it might in any case give you 
some ideas of how to do this cleanly.

Hope this helps
André

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