Smart IP Redirect to Locale (with Cookie)
This module redirects users to a language based on their IP address, by mapping country codes to specific languages. It allows for excluding certain user agents, like search engine bots, from this redirection. A cookie is used to maintain the redirected language.
Overview
The Smart IP Redirect to Locale (with Cookie) overrides language negotiation and redirects users to a language depending on their IP address based on a country code mapping configuration page.
Installation
The installation of this module is like other Drupal modules:
- Enable the 'Smart IP Redirect to Locale' module along with its dependencies (Locale and Smart IP) in 'Extend'. (/admin/modules)
- Set up adminstration permissions. (/admin/people/permissions#module-smart_ip_locale_redirect)
Recommended modules
Smart IP MaxMind GeoIP2 Precision web service (submodule of Smart IP).
Configuration
- Go to the Smart IP settings page to select the main Smart IP data source. (/admin/config/people/smart_ip)
- Go to Smart IP Locale Redirect Settings to map each country code to a site language. (/admin/config/search/smart_ip_locale_redirect)
- Specify user agents to be excluded from redirection such as Googlebot and bingbot.
Important note
You will not be able to change the site langcode from browser navigation address because the cookie will keep redirecting to the langcode that stored in its value, so you have to either:
- Use the language switcher to change the site language.
- Or add 'update_hl=LANGCODE' to the path in the browser navigation address.