How to redirect specific browser please???

Hello,

Short answer: There is no way to achieve the purpose using this plugin.

Long answer: Yes, you can achieve the purpose using one of the alternatives…

1. If you have only one redirect… this can be achieved easily using a simple redirect in the server. All major web servers allow us to redirect based on the user-agent string in the request header. For example, in Nginx, you can insert an additional line like the following…

?if ( $http_user_agent = "My Embedded Browser" ) { return /new-url/; }

You may know more about return statement in Nginx at https://nginx.org/r/return .

2. If you have multiple redirects (like more than 100)… this can be achieved using a combination of server-side tweaks and a WP plugin to redirect based on the user-agent. Most web servers serve cached content for most requests without hitting PHP / WP. So, the first step is to let the web server to skip the cache and pass the request to PHP/WP. For example, in Nginx, you can achieve this with a bit of a hack used in the following code…

location / {
  error_page 418 = @cachemiss;
  ?if ( $http_user_agent = "My Embedded Browser" ) { return 418; }
  # other directives to process requests from other user-agents.
}

location @cachemiss {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

You can see a real-time example of how this technique is used for WP Super Cache plugin at https://github.com/pothi/wordpress-nginx/blob/master/globals/wp-super-cache.conf .

Once, you instructed the web server to skip the cache for your specific user-agent, the next step is to let WP to handle all the redirects. This is bit easy to achieve using an existing plugin such as https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/redirection/ or using your own custom plugin.

I hope that helps.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Pothi Kalimuthu. Reason: fixed formatting of code block and fixed a typo

Hello,

Thanks for your so professional explanations.

Actually, I test the plugin of Redirection today, and it does not work well, please check at:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/not-work-properly-on-multisite-with-nginx-server/

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cache-does-not-work-as-expected/

and THERE IS URL AND USER AGENT REDIRECT, please check this screenshot:

https://prntscr.com/n9l8ks

unfortunately, it does not work well for me.

we are using easy engine with redis, and it need special setting for skipping cache, here is example:

https://easyengine.io/wordpress-nginx/tutorials/plugins/woocommerce
https://community.easyengine.io/t/how-to-exclude-pages-from-redis/10804/5

For now, I am still confused how I should start, since there is a module of Nginx in the plugin of Redirection:https://prntscr.com/n9ld2w

But I am quite confused with that Nginx module, would you please have a check of that Nginx Module, and let me know your further suggestion please?

Great thanks.

Hello,

You may probably post the query on redirection plugin support to get better support. I have no idea on how everything works together in that plugin. I only happened to see its description and recommended it to you (after having seen it in multiple sites).

Thanks,
Pothi.