Redirect iPhone, Blackberry, & Palm Requests With .htaccess

Monday, January 26th, 2009

So you wanna serve a separate page or sub domain for mobile phones? Add this bit of fun to your .htaccess and you're rockin'. All iPhone, Blackberry, & Palm requests will go to a mobile subdomain.

#redirect mobile browsers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*iPhone.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mobile.yourdomain.com [R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*BlackBerry.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mobile.yourdomain.com [R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Palm.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mobile.yourdomain.com [R=301]

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Brian Cray

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Wassim
January 30, 2009 at 4:06 pm

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Quick, easy, not big and nice; this is what I call a Mobile tutorial . Thanks Brian.
Brian Cray
January 30, 2009 at 4:09 pm

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Well said Thanks for the comments!
kev
February 23, 2009 at 4:42 pm

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If I create an iphone page and do an autoredirect to it, how can I link back to the main site? I’m using a joomla site, so all pages on the site use the index.php?pagename idea, so whenever I try to access another page on the site, I’m taken back to the iphone specific home page.
Dawn
September 4, 2009 at 5:16 pm

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I tried implementing this code but I got an error when I tested on my iphone:

Safari cannot open page because too many redirects occurred.

How do I fix this? Thanks!
scott
October 12, 2009 at 8:35 pm

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I’m getting the same issue on the iPhone… too many redirects…

I would love for this to work because of the sheer simplicity!

Any fix on this?
hwkd65
November 17, 2009 at 9:52 am

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I am getting

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content

and I have checked for white spaces
- hwkd65
  November 17, 2009 at 9:54 am
  
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  Nevermind, wrong forum.
Artur
May 8, 2010 at 4:55 am

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hi, you forgot to add:
RewriteEngine on
in a first line. It may be required if it’s not globally on
Tom
June 22, 2010 at 8:28 am

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Haha no bodies understand how to use it ….

If you have a too many redirections that means you try to redirect the user to the same domain with the same htaccess and here the loop!

The solution is too redirect the user to anohter domain with no htaccess or to redirect the user to an mobile.html page and to add a condition at the top of your htaccess.

I cannot post the complete code due to my company … but the idea is here
SkipSoft
August 3, 2010 at 3:31 am

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Thanks a lot.