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I am trying to set up a PHP redirect on my EE index page for iPhone users.

I am using the following script at the top of my index template:

<?php
define('IPHONE_URL', 'http://www.thisismyiphoneurl.com');
if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'iPhone') !== FALSE || strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'iPod') !== FALSE)
{
    header("Location: " . IPHONE_URL);
}
?>

When I visit my URL on an iPhone, I do not get redirected.

Will this not work in an EE template?

OK. I figured out that I did not have “Allow PHP” set to yes for the index page.

Once I set that correctly, the page redirected but it took me to a 200 OK page.

It reads “The document has moved here” where “here” is a link to the page that it was supposed to redirect to.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks.

What’s the URL of the page it currently redirects to?

Have you tried appending ‘/index.php’ or whatever your default page is/should be onto the end of the URL?

It does not show me the url of the 200 OK page.

My iphone page is in a template group called iphone and the page I want to redirect to is the index page in that group.

I have tried:
http://www.myurl.com/index.php/iphone/
http://www.myurl.com/index.php/iphone/index.php

Both URLs work if I view either URL in a computer’s browser, but I get the 200 OK page for both URLs when I go to http://www.myurl.com/ on an iphone.

It does not show me the url of the 200 OK page.

My iphone page is in a template group called iphone and the page I want to redirect to is the index page in that group.

I have tried:
http://www.myurl.com/index.php/iphone/
http://www.myurl.com/index.php/iphone/index.php

Both URLs work if I view either URL in a computer’s browser, but I get the 200 OK page for both URLs when I go to http://www.myurl.com/ on an iphone.

I’m no iPhone developer, so I don’t know the quirks of the browser or anything similar. I’d normally guess it’s maybe because you have a rule in your Apache’s .htaccess file that’s altering the redirection behaviour, but it can’t be if it works ok on a PC.

Does the page display as desired if you go to the explicit URL via iPhone, i.e. if you visit either .../iphone or .../iphone/index.php on your iPhone does it display more than a blank page?

I don’t think I’m going to be able to resolve this one for you if it does show something, doh.

It does display the correct page if I go directly to it on the iphone.

I have tried testing the redirect code using a page that is outside of EE and it works fine so something in EE is the culprit.

Thanks for trying! 😊

Anyone else have any ideas as to what is going on here?

<snip> see below.

Anyone else have any ideas as to what is going on here?

Hi again mp 😊

Have you tried using Javascript to redirect client-side instead, to see whether it fares any better?

if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("iPhone") != -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("iPod") != -1)
   window .location = "http://www.your-redirect-site.com/path/to/your/redirect";

Remove the space after ‘window’ in the code, the forum’s security won’t let me write ‘window . location’ without spaces.

Give that a whirl and let me know.

That works! Thanks a ton!

I would still love to know the problem with the PHP method if anyone has an idea.

Try exiting at the end of your PHP code.

That was the ticket!

Thank you!

Try exiting at the end of your PHP code.

Just wanted to say thanks! I was pulling my hair for 5mn there… 😉

I just spent forever trying to solve the same issue.

exit();

This works.

Thanks for the post.