Blocking certain countries / IP ranges......

[The Ghost]

What is the best method for blocking certain countries from accessing your sites? Thanks!

[The Ghost]

What is the best method for blocking certain countries from accessing your sites? Thanks!

countries = ip ranges

[u-Bob]

www.maxmind.com
www.ip2location.com

[Reak AGV]

Bump for you.

[broke]

Are you looking to block at a firewall or via .htaccess?

Via .htaccess you can add:

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx
deny from xxx
allow from all
</LIMIT>

To block a specific IP add the whole IP to the deny line. To block a range use a partial IP address.

[psili]

www.maxmind.com
www.ip2location.com

Yea. Just do a country lookup using the above software and do your redirect based on that. It's as easy as something like:

include("/other/company/ip_lookup_code.php");
$country = getCountry();
switch($country)
{
   case "UK": 
     header("Location: http://www.badteeth.com;);
   break;
   case "JP"; 
     header("Location: http://www.iwannafuckahotjapanesechick.com");
   break;
  ............
}

[Lycanthrope]

Mod_GeoIP and Maxmind's database. The free one is good, the paid versions are obviously better

[The Ghost]

Everyone so far.... thank you for the information.

[fris]

ya mod_geoip works wonders

[pussyluver]

Damn a business thread! Thanks for the info, esp the scripting.

[The Ghost]

Damn a business thread! Thanks for the info, esp the scripting.

lol.... yeah, they sneak in here every once-in-a-while