Typically website traffic is important for everyone website on blogs, but sometime some people would like to block some countries traffic. Due to reduce the unwanted bandwidth, for example some online shopping websites not provide the service for particular countries, so they would like to block that countries. Also some websites are hacked and indexed the spam URL in search engine results, typically if it is happened huge number of unnecessary web traffic comes from particular countries. These unwanted web traffic using the server bandwidth and possible to down the server, so people would like to block that particular countries web traffic.
Block country Web Traffic
IP2Location online tool helps to block the countries web traffic by using its Block country visitor’s set-up. You can set-up this option by using following steps:
- Logon IP2Location country visitor blocker page
- Select the IP Address version in the first step (default it will be IPv4)
- Select the country which you would like to block the unwanted web traffic
- Choose the output format, which is your server supported options. If you are running Joomla or WordPress website or blogs then you can select Apache 2.0 – 2.3 .htaccess deny options and click to download button
Now you have complete IP address of selected country in text file format, you have to copy this complete text and include your .htaccess file than upload to your server. Than your server will be blocked your website from the particular country by using this IP addresses lists.
IP2Location also provide the country blocker WordPress plugin, this will be very easier to block the countries for WordPress blogs users. By using this plugin WordPress admin will block the country just simple clicks. Also this tool will be generating the IP Address format for Linux iptables, Netmask, Inverse Netmast, IIS web.config and Cisco ACL.