Mobile device detection & redirect.

gdguarino · 10-06-2010, 04:47 PM

Firstly, I'm an idiot.

Not in general, mind you, but I know absolutely nothing about programming. I have designed and maintained our company's web site for many years. It's big in terms of pages, but simple, all HTML and CSS. I have recently created a mobile friendly version of the site with a manual option, but I'd like it to be automatic. I see prepackaged scripts at detectmobilebrowser.com, but have no idea what to do with them.

Can anyone help?

onyx808 · 10-07-2010, 01:41 AM

I think this is done with the .htaccess file..
something like

Quote:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} iPhone/
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mobilesite.com [R=301,NC,L]

gdguarino · 10-10-2010, 01:01 AM

If anyone's interested I got it to work. I found out that our web hosting provider uses Apache, and took a chance pasting an Apache script I found online into the .htaccess file. Worked.

onyx808 · 10-12-2010, 06:41 AM

congratulations! glad to see you figured out! =)

10-06-2010, 04:47 PM	#1
gdguarino New Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2	Mobile device detection & redirect. Firstly, I'm an idiot. Not in general, mind you, but I know absolutely nothing about programming. I have designed and maintained our company's web site for many years. It's big in terms of pages, but simple, all HTML and CSS. I have recently created a mobile friendly version of the site with a manual option, but I'd like it to be automatic. I see prepackaged scripts at detectmobilebrowser.com, but have no idea what to do with them. Can anyone help?

10-12-2010, 06:41 AM	#4
onyx808 New Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 8	congratulations! glad to see you figured out! =) __________________ Hawaii Web Design

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10-10-2010, 01:01 AM	#3
gdguarino New Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2	If anyone's interested I got it to work. I found out that our web hosting provider uses Apache, and took a chance pasting an Apache script I found online into the .htaccess file. Worked.