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can I get a different domain name to show for my site if it is accesed from another country.

can I get a different domain name to show for my site if it is accessed from another country. I have a joomla site with a plugin that can show different content depending on IP but Im curious as to whether I can make the domain name change too. Say I have a .com and when someone accesses from UK they will see .co.uk - is this possible?

Julian Hansen

Yes it is possible - you have to redirect the site.

In your code you have some script that does a lookup in GeoLocation database (Check out Maxmind or similar)

That gives you your country - you then decide if you want to redirect and simply issue a header command

header('location: yourdomain.co.uk');

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Full code would be something like

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$country = get_country($ip); // CHANGE TO WHATEVER GeoLocation DB API YOU ARE USING
if ($country == 'UK') {
   header('location: yourdomain.co.uk');
}

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Paul Cotter

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Thanks Julian - Im not really great with code. Are we actually redirecting the site or pretending to? I want the same site but with a different URL showing in UK only...

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Paul Cotter

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Thats what I thought - Thanks Julian:-)

Julian Hansen

You are welcome - thanks for using EE