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[skilletsteve]

I am wondering if it possible to block traffic from certain countries in a PHP document. (Example: if I don't want users from Iran to be able to access my site, what would I need to do).

Thanks in advance
-Steve

[John]

This should get you started: http://forum.codecal...ighlight=target

[skilletsteve]

Jordan said:

I'm curious to know why you want to block them. Are they causing problems?

I am getting started hosting a lot of proxy sites, and running adsense on the homepages. Users from Iran tend to use a LOT of bandwidth, and their clicks aren't worth that much on adsense.
so not 'problems' but I feel I would do better if they could not use my sites.

[skilletsteve]

(sorry to double post)

If anybody is wondering, I was informed that you can block traffic from different regions using the .htaccess file on the server.

[skilletsteve]

yes I was, quite easily actually. I just used the following code

Quote

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 62.60.128.0/17
deny from 62.193.0.0/19
Etc...

and for all the denies I simply went to this page IP address range lookup
and selected Iran.

[Chan]

Wouldn't you need to do an .htaccess for every directory though?

[skilletsteve]

Chan said:

Wouldn't you need to do an .htaccess for every directory though?

Yes, but I simply just downloaded the .htacess and them uploaded it into every directory. (And since what I run is proxy sites there were not that many directories. I am sure for other sites that are more content heavy this method may not have been the best choice.)