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Mobile device detection in Nginx with just 7 lines of configuration
### Testing if the client is a mobile or a desktop.
### The selection is based on the usual UA strings for desktop browsers.
## Testing a user agent using a method that reverts the logic of the
## UA detection. Inspired by notnotmobile.appspot.com.
map $http_user_agent $is_desktop {
default 0;
~*linux.*android|windows\s+(?:ce|phone) 0; # exceptions to the rule
~*spider|crawl|slurp|bot 1; # bots
~*windows|linux|os\s+x\s*[\d\._]+|solaris|bsd 1; # OSes
}
## Revert the logic.
map $is_desktop $is_mobile {
1 0;
0 1;
}
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fperana commented Mar 28, 2019

I think you've reversed the logic, default should be 0 and in case you detect a browser (MSIE, Firefox, etc.) you want 1.

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