Country IP Blocks

[sparky]

Thought this link would come in handy for someone
http://www.countryipblocks.net/index.php

[handsonwebhosting]

eeeeekkk... don't let my customers see it ;)

We had one guy with an .htaccess file that was almost 1MB in size and it pretty much crippled his site as he wanted to list all the IPs in the world that couldn't access his site, etc. What a nightmare.

Found it much easier to have him on a VPS and load up mod_geoip. Now he can just type in the name of the country he wants to show and it will do it.

edit .htaccess file

GeoIP ON
SetEnvIF GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE CN BlockThese
SetEnvIF GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE TR BlockThese
# Add more countries here

Deny from env=BlockThese

Maybe someone can use that one rather than IP ranges as the more lines you have in your .htaccess file the longer it takes to load the pages.

Don't forget, you MUST compile mod_geoip in Apache ;)


Deny from GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE

[dominic22]

Nice, thanks. This will come in handy for people I know and possibly for me as well. :)