I have a website with a mobile version.
By using .htaccess I'm trying to redirect mobile users to a subfolder like this:
https://www.example.com/mobile
I also need to redirect everyone to "https:www" like this:
https://www.example.com
I've seen many examples for redirecting a website to it's mobile version, however, all of them use subdomains instead of subfolders.
When I try to put both redirections, it gets looped, so I'd rather not make so many tests on the production server, and that's why I was wondering if someone here went through the same issue.
Any help will be really appreciated.
I've already solved it. I used this code in order to redirect to https and www https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13977851/htaccess-redirect-to-https-www
It seems I had to include the https where the mobile validation is made.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# Check if mobile=1 is set and set cookie 'mobile' equal to 1
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)mobile=1(&|$)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^ - [CO=mobile:1:%{HTTP_HOST}]
# Check if mobile=0 is set and set cookie 'mobile' equal to 0
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)mobile=0(&|$)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^ - [CO=mobile:0:%{HTTP_HOST}]
# cookie can't be set and read in the same request so check
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)mobile=0(&|$)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^ - [S=1]
# Check if this looks like a mobile device
RewriteCond %{HTTP:x-wap-profile} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^$
# Check to make sure we haven't set the cookie before
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !\mobile=0(;|$)
# Now redirect to the mobile site
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.com/mobile%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
# Now redirect desktop visitors to www and https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
I don't know if it's too long, but it works. Is it a good practice to use a subfolder instead of a subdomain for mobile version?
