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Kevin Sedgley
Asked: 2014-03-27 04:27:18 +0800 CST

Serving from different directories for Internet Explorer

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We have two different versions of our website - one for older versions of Internet Explorer (7 and 8), and one for all other browsers.

(arguments around JS feature detection have been made, but we have found it easier to progress this way!)

We would like to silently (ie without a 301) files to be served from a different directory - so a request to:

/app/foo/bar

would be served from the directory:

html/ie/foo/bar

for Internet Explorer 8 and below, and for other browsers from:

html/other/foo/bar

Is this possible to achieve using .htaccess?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. I've done it with the following (with a slight change to the directory structure):

    /app/
  - index.html (for modern browsers)
  - .htaccess (with remapping for IE 6-8)
  /ie
    - index.html and other files
    - .htaccess (to turn off further remapping efforts)

    The contents of .htaccess in /app is:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "MSIE [6-8]" [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /app/ie/$1 [PT]

    The contents of .htaccess in /app/ie is:

    RewriteEngine off
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