Mobile Mod_Rewrite Issues - Too Many Redirects

[ben319]

I'm redirecting the iPhone (and soon to be more mobile devices) successfully but in combination with some preexisting rewrite rules in my .htaccess file it's causing too many redirects.

The mobile site is at mydomain.com/m and from mydomain.com it's trying to go to mydomain.com/m/?page=m&page=m&page=m&page=m etc.

I'm new to mod_rewrite and any help you could offer would be great!

Thanks!

   ### REDIRECT MOBILE DEVICES
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*iPhone.*)$
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/m
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /m [L]

   ### OTHER REQUIRED REWRITE RULES BELOW

   ### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/ [L,R=301]

   ### MAIN REWRITE - This will ignore directories
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)\/$ /index.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}   [L]

[dklynn]

Ben,

Well, the mod_rewrite for WAP-enabled phones used to be to echo a doctype in the file itself:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} text/vnd\.wap\.wml

With all the smartphones around today, that's pretty much been lost.

Your code is fine for what it's trying to do UNTIL you get to the blocks after the iPhone. There, you must provide an exclusion for your m/ directory. Your last block will loop because you're only checking for the existence of a directory, not a file (which means that index.php is matched and you'll loop).

Regards,

DK

[ifuschini]

Hi,
there is a project called "Apache Mobile Filter" that allows you to access WURFL from any programming language, not just Java and php that is traditionally used for dynamic mobile web sites.

The module detects the mobile device and passes the WURFL capabilities on to the other web application as environment variables. It can also be used to resize images on the fly to adapt to the screen size of the mobile device.

Now this module is one of modules included in Apache Module Registry (modules.apache.org)

For more info search "Apache Mobile Filter" on google