How to block all ips from a specifc country?

forget all the most valuable benefits using www to go publisc and reach out to the world, then shut down your server and start advertising in daily newspapers again.
seriously the easiest way to make sure only a tiny readership gets your site!
another way to make things complicated would be to require all memberships and have their passport sent first for verification.

but

why would anyone ever wold do such ...

 

Nothing as expensive as that needs to happen I'm afraid.

The problems a simple one, ALL of the clients ONLY come from the UK, Spain or Ireland, NONE of the clients EVER come from anywhere else, so no point paying for the extra bandwidth (very considerable bandwidth).

So, any constructive ideas from anyone ?

Kezi

 

Did you try the htaccess method described here?
Instead of adding ALL those to ban, reverse the critria to ONLY allow certain IP's.

In other words, use 'allow' instead of 'deny'.

Lastly, here is another free script you can use.

SimpleBan v1.0 by Jordan Boesch
www.boedesign.com

/-------- HOW TO USE -----------/
Simply add the tag
<? include("checkban.php"); ?>
to all your pages.
checkban.php checks if the person is banned (duh) - also
if they're not banned they will be inserted into your IP log (usefull feature?).

Good luck,

- Vince

 

Many thanks for that link, it's appreciated.

Using that link and doing it in reverse, just wondering if the code below would be ok ?

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from all
allow from uk
allow from ie
allow from es
</LIMIT>

Kezi.

 

Many thanks Vince - it looks as though that could be the answer ;-)

One thing, I've d/loaded your d/load, but do I need to setup a database somewhere please ?

The helps appreciated.

Kezi.

 

Thanks for the tips, I will be updating blockacountry.com shortly to include more features. If you have any ideas, feel free to let me know.

 

There is a module called mod_geoip for apache. If you try to use it, it would really give you release from inserting each ip range of a country You can use mod_geoip module along with rewrite to ban a coutries whole ip range. But certainly it would need you to install mod_geoip which only can be done by the server admin of your host

Good Luck.

 

I'm on shared servers, and don't want a 'heavy' .htaccess file with 1,000's of ip address's, what's the easiest way for a novice to do this please ? I did pm Maurice, but maybe he didn't receive it.

Any help very much appreciated.

Kez.

 

Download a proxy software program and check it out (Steganos Internet Anonym 2006). Its going to be next to impossible to block them. Why not let it work for you, spammers wil give you lots of page impressions if you use google adsense.

 

You should check power redirector, here is a demo
http://www.12scripts.com/demo/redirector/admin/login.php

 

use iptables and country IP blocks (Cidr format) from IPdeny

 

Most complete and up to date list of IP Addresses:

http://www.find-ip-address.org/ip-country/

 

But if you wanted a way to block visitors from certain countries, say for example, Japan, China, Russia and Korea, how exactly would that be done please ?

Any help appreciated.

Kezi.

 

I think that you have not visited link above because there is everything explained.

 

Yep, definitely looked there, in fact I looked there as soon as you mentioned it, but no sign of how to do what I mentioned earlier ? ? I found this page : http://www.find-ip-address.org/ip-blacklist-lookup.php is that what you mean ? ? If not, which page do you refer to please ?

 

http://www.find-ip-address.org/ip-country/

 

GeoIP from Maxmind.
Using this script.
http://www.lazyhat.com/2008/05/tutorial-redirecting-visitors-with-geo-ip-php-module-from-maxmind/

 

That looks very good Dollar, will check through it more thoroughly this weekend. Couple of things, how would you change that script to ban certain countries, rather than code for the ones you allow please ? Also, where are the banned ones redirected to ?

 

Doing blacklist you would need only to reverse the last function. Probaly from
!in_array to a in_array. Also you may consider changing $okcountry to $badcountry in the script. So as to be not confused if your going to make it a blacklist rather then a whitelist.

 if(in_array($country, $badcountry)) //for blacklist rather then whitelist
header('Location: /exit/')

PHP:

*untested

To redirect them somewhere else edit the last function of the script using the PHP: Header
The syntax is like

header ("Location: http://anothersite.com/");
header ("Location: /or-another-page.html");

PHP:

 

Many thanks Dollar, you're a star. Just wondering if it's worth going for the paid vers of max mind - all of my clients come from the UK and nowhere else, but can't risk any of them in the UK not being able to view the website.