redirection problem

[SLEE]

Hi all, I am hoping can shed some light on the problem I am having.

I have two WP sites one for the UK and one for the USA they look almost the same but the pages are different.

the sites run on www.domain.com and www.domain.com/us

On the www.domain.com version I have added a plugin (GEO Redirect) that redirects a user by their ip address so if they are from the USA they get moved onto the USA version.

The problem I have is that when you share a link on LInkedIn, Facebook or Twitter because their servers are in the USA the link system they use which scrapes the site for information also gets redirected to the USA version.

Is there any way around this?

[Dom]

I'm no expert with mod_rewrite and .htaccess, but I'm sure you could add rules in to your .htaccess file that allowed anyone coming from, for example, *.twitter.com to use the UK version instead of the US. So you could set up rules for common social networks so that their link scrapers are always redirected to the UK site.

I guess the problem then might be that some links might actually be posted from the US version of the site to Twitter etc, but the redirects from Twitter will redirect scrapers and people to the UK version. Hmm, seems like a bit of a pickle.


Edited for typo.

[JasonD]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} twitter [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} whatever
RewriteRule (.*) $1?no_redirect

With appropriate user agent strings. Maybe.

[SLEE]

Thanks guys I iwll try and dig a bit deeper into how the plugin redirects and see if i can use the code you provided Jason.