Browser Redirects Using Htaccess?

[Lee]

Does anyone know how i would go about using .htaccess to redirect users of a specific browser from hitting my sites, for example, lets say a surfer is using Opera, how would i go about redirecting that surfer to a different website?

Regards,

Lee

[Abstract]

Hi Lee,

Take a look at the code below:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Opera.*
RewriteRule ^.*$ redirectToWebsite [L]

This will redirect all requests from an opera browser to redirectToWebsite. If you want more specific browser to be redirected you can do something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Opera.*
RewriteRule ^.*$ redirectToWebsite [L]

This will redirect all the Mozilla and opera browsers to redirectToWebsite.

The part ^Mozilla.* is a regular expression so it can match a lot of different browsers are once.

The part ^.*$ after the RewriteRule is also a regular expression. If you want to redirect the opera browser when they hit the all the files that starting with tour in their filenames you can do this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Opera.*
RewriteRule ^tour.*$ redirectToWebsite [L]

I hope this will help you!

Best Wishes,
Arian