Nginx geoip redirect based on country codes but exclude googlebot

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 17.11.2010 um 13:55 schrieb st1905:

> Hello,
>
> I want to redirect people to specific pages on a website according to
> their country but i dont want to redirect googlebot or other spiders,
> how can i do this with nginx ?
>
> I have done redirection with php earlier but havent been able to  
> exclude
> googlebot.
>
> As i read from maxmind website, on apache its done like this
>
> [code]
> GeoIPEnable On
> GeoIPDBFile /path/to/GeoIP.dat
>
> # Redirect one country
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^CA$
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.canada.com$1 [L]
>
> # Redirect multiple countries to a single page
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^(CA|US|MX)$
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.northamerica.com$1 [L]
> [/code]
>
>
> It still does not have any info to remove googlebot from redirection.



We did it like this (not for google - you have to find their ip-space)


http {
     keepalive_timeout   65;
     geoip_country /usr/local/etc/geo/GeoIP.dat ;

# these are the GeoIP exceptions for your site
     geo $mygeo {
                 default         0;
                 bla/19  1;
                 blu/16    1;
     }


then, in the server block:

         location / {
             include proxy-lcb-lt.conf;
             if ($geoip_country_code = "US") {
                                 proxy_pass http://prod;
                 }
             # these are the exceptions, defined in nginx.conf:
             if ($mygeo = "1") {
                 proxy_pass http://prod;
                 }
         }



Hope this helps.



Rainer