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Title: Blocking Various Countries By IP
Post by: ukgimp on September 19, 2013, 02:32:32 PM

Or only include certain ones.

Eg block all of Africa

Easiest way of doing it on LAMP?

Title: Re: Blocking Various Countries By IP
Post by: JasonD on September 19, 2013, 02:51:04 PM

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

IPTables is more efficient that .htaccess but both will work

Title: Re: Blocking Various Countries By IP
Post by: ukgimp on September 19, 2013, 02:57:34 PM

Saw that one.

Better to exclude countries I suspect rather than allow, due to the fact that you might have incomplete data.

thanks

Title: Re: Blocking Various Countries By IP
Post by: JasonD on September 19, 2013, 03:01:01 PM

Agreed, only ever deny, not allow - presuming the list will be shorter that is.

Title: Re: Blocking Various Countries By IP
Post by: JasonD on September 19, 2013, 03:03:31 PM

it's easy enough to do on the command line but here is a script to help you on your way

https://github.com/tlhackque/BlockCountries

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