Need to cloak my LP and show bogus content to specific ip and town/city.

[mpbiz]

Need to cloak one of my LP's from a competitor. Once I finally get my hands on his ip address, how can I show him different LP content than my regular visitors?

I found this code here but it does an actual redirect, and I don't want my competitor to know that he is seeing bogus content. I'm not looking for a FB cloaker or anything like that. Literally just need to show one competitor bogus content.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^56\.150\.186\.229$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^89\.103\.221\.49$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^25\.53\.91\.24$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^82\.151\.156\.151$
RewriteRule http://www.example.com/websitepage [L,R=301]

Anyone know how I can accomplish this WITHOUT redirecting my competitor?

Also anyone know how to do this for not just the ip but the town or city as well?

 

[starfish]

I'd do it in php like this:

<?php
$competitors = array("56.150.186.229", "89.103.221.49", "25.53.91.24", "82.151.156.151");

if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $competitors)) {
   ?>fake landing page html code<?php

} else {
   ?>real landing page html code<?php
}
?>

 

[Panic Not]

Nice piece handy piece of code, send them to meatspin

 

[mattseh]

I'd do it in php like this:

<?php
$competitors = array("56.150.186.229", "89.103.221.49", "25.53.91.24", "82.151.156.151");

if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $competitors)) {
   ?>fake landing page html code<?php

} else {
   ?>real landing page html code<?php
}
?>

This is a good way of doing it. Are you sure your competitor has a static IP? Why not drop a evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies on him to be safe?

 

[mpbiz]

Starfish and mattseh thanks for the help.

Mattseh I'm mobile so I can't check out the ever cookie code, but it sounds perfect. Any idea how I can modify starfishe's code to check for the cookie and IP address?

 

[brentb]

Use free ip2Location API... just google, there are quite a few of them.