Nginx - How to do two layers of GEO Redirection?

Question

I am trying to redirect visitors based on two conditions, one based on the continent, and then based on their country, here are the current maps that I came up with eventually:

## GeoIP Redirection
map $geoip_city_continent_code $closest_server {
  default row.example.com;
  EU      www.example.com;
  NA      us.example.com;
}
map $geoip_city_country_code $closest_server {
  CH      ch.example.com;
}

But this did not work, for this I am trying to understand what is the best approach to achieve this. Any help appreciated.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '18 at 08:56

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this is not related to your issue, but I think is better to redirect the users to the closest server, using geodns, in this way you don't have the tcp handshake, because dns client use udp

answered Nov 01 '18 at 08:56

c4f4t0r

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But all the sites are on the same server, how would that work? – Ibrahim S Nov 01 '18 at 09:29

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '18 at 07:54

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For each of those subdomains, add an A record in your DNS configuration with the IP of the server for that region:

EU      www.example.com - 1.1.1.2
NA      us.example.com  - 1.1.1.3

answered Nov 01 '18 at 07:54

Udhayakumar R

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But they all hosted on the same server. – Ibrahim S Nov 01 '18 at 08:16
better you add aliases for the same server – Udhayakumar R Nov 01 '18 at 08:18
Your answer seems to be illogical, and it make no sense what that has to do with my question! – Ibrahim S Nov 01 '18 at 08:33
Your requirement is multiple dns names pointing to a single IP address. – Udhayakumar R Nov 01 '18 at 08:41

Nginx - How to do two layers of GEO Redirection?

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