creating a mobile friendly version site

You can definitely redirect mobile users via htaccess. Here’s an example:

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]

I grabbed the code from this article.

does this mean I have to make a subdomain called mobile?

my site is canadafreepress.com.index.php/article/30975

it is set to be canadafreepress.com.index.php/mobile-article/30975

with the front page being: canadafreepress.com.index.php/mobile

You don’t have to create a subdomain. You can change the rewrite rule so it hits a sub directory.

Okay thank you

so instead of mobile.example.com it would go to example.com/index.php/mobile?

obviously I have no experience with expression engine

Exactly.

I suppose there are wild cards ( I think that is what they are called, so I do not have to type out all the various templates I have that get re directed?

At Devot:ee there’s a plugin called MX Mobile Device Detect that I use to send visitors to the mobile version of my site.

There are wildcards but I’ll defer you over to Apache’s docs as you’ll probably have more questions.

Awesome find, ak4mc. This definitely appears to be the easiest way to go.

Thank you all

I am going to try the other route, and avoid the .htaccess

Thanks

Okay ….

so….

I have upload the plugin into the correct folder my next questions are…

where do I put these plugs on the template? where it says site.com do I redirect it to site.com/mobile/new tempalte?

{exp:mobile_detect location="http://m.site.com/"}

{exp:mobile_detect location="http://site.com/" redirect="not_mobile"}

{exp:mobile_detect} {if mobile} Is mobile device {/if} {if not_mobile} Is not mobile device {/if} {/exp:mobile_detect}

Thanks!