GEO Blocking

[seanc]

i dont want a certain country to have access to a www site.

im running cpanel - is it possible to block a whole country ?

 

[AssetDomains]

Can probably do it by htaccess

http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Try using CloudFlare as your DNS, it has this feature

 

[seanc]

Can probably do it by htaccess

http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker

do you think downloading the country list from ip2location and adding the IPs into cPanels IP Deny would do the job?

 

[denchomsky]

Which country has annoyed you?...have you just been on holiday and had a bad time

 

[AssetDomains]

do you think downloading the country list from ip2location and adding the IPs into cPanels IP Deny would do the job?

I've never used the feature but I'd imagine that would work

 

[bonusmedia]

China, right?

At one point chinese bots were eating 80% of my total bandwidth usage.

http://www.wizcrafts.net/chinese-iptables-blocklist.html

 

[seanc]

the country is Cyprus - its a finance website for a client

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

If you use Wordpress, add the Wordfence security app, if you go the paid version you can block countries

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

or go into cpanel and use the IP Block feature by IP range.

This site is great for bulk checking IP locations:
http://www.ipligence.com/iplocation

 

[PoshTiger]

I've always just used askimet - $5 per month and it stops nearly all spam without having to block legitimate traffic...

 

[seanc]

thanks all for the help, seems to be working, i denied a list of IP's in .htaccess


now, what i need to do next is:

if someone hits the site from Cyprus i need it to redirect to a page.

if someone hits from anywhere else in the world i need it to display the website.


can this be done?