Blocking A Complete Country From Accessing My Website.

Worker Joined: Aug 22, 2006 Posts: 192

I am running my website using Raven's RavenNuke(tm) v2.02.02 Distro release and NukeSentinel(tm) 2.4.2pl5.

I know how to block individual IP addresses from accesing my website.

Please can someone take me step by step through the process of blocking a complete country from accessing my website?

Thanks guys.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:16 pm

This thread may have your answer: http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts11996-start-0.html

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:34 pm

Hi jakec...Thanks for your reply, however there is a problem.

I want to use Nuke Sentinel to ban the countries. Moreover I HAVE to use Nuke Sentinel to ban the countries because I am not able to modify the .HTAccess files on the server I use.

Please can someone help with this.

registered · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:09 am

Just go to Import Data -> Import to Blocked Ranges
Select the country

That should be all you need to do

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isnt that weird that you cant modify the htaccess but can write to it by import ?
if you can write to it shouldnt it be editable to ?

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:32 am

Hitwalker, was that last posting in response to ME or to the posting evaders99 just made above?

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:23 pm

to evaders..
cause how its explained ,the one cant do without the other....

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:12 pm

OK Guys....when u have sorted out your 'differences', please could someone answer my original question?....

'I am running my website using Raven's RavenNuke(tm) v2.02.02 Distro release and NukeSentinel(tm) 2.4.2pl5.

I know how to block individual IP addresses from accesing my website.

Please can someone take me step by step through the process of blocking a complete country from accessing my website?'

And of course, as menioned above, I do not have access to my servers .HTAccess files.

Thanks guys.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:21 pm

as said...

Quote:

Just go to Import Data -> Import to Blocked Ranges
Select the country

That should be all you need to do

but fact is,if you dont have access to the htaccess file is very likely that its not writable,meaning...sentinel wont write to it.
if thats so evaders suggestion wont work.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:35 pm

You don't need .htaccess writing active to use Import to Blocked Ranges. It will import into Sentinel's own tables to do blocking checks.

Of course, this only protects your Nuke site. Without the .htaccess writing, it cannot protect your whole server.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:41 am

Oh Lord...Now I am confused with all this dissagreement!

Who is correct here?

(Do we have to have a poll started to reach a resolve here?)

HEEELP please! Sad

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:32 am

Quote:

with all this dissagreement

whatever gives you that idea emmaphp ?
its natural that every topic comes with several replies / suggestions / ideas / etc..

simple said....and that should do it for this topic....
it depends on what the reason is why you wanna ban a whole country...
if theres no reason at all then importing the country ip in the sentinel table is good enough,and writing to htaccess isnt required.
but then do keep your ip2country stuff updated..

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:23 pm

There's no disagreement. Just clarification.

Just do it already

Quote:

Just go to Import Data -> Import to Blocked Ranges
Select the country

That should be all you need to do

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:45 pm

Thanks evaders, but as Hitwalker had another theory and thought your original posting was not quite correct.

Anyhow I will go with your original suggestion.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:11 pm

please keep your comments to yourself.
keep in mind that im online 14 hours a day try to help others.

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:07 am

I don't think Hitwalker was necssarily disagreeing, just looking for clarification and at the end of the day these forums are for discussion.

I think Hitwalker did a good job of explaining himself and like Hitwalker said we're here to help.

Now lets all sit down and have a nice cold beer together, I'm buying. Wink

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:21 am

Emmaphp, I just realised you said your site is running NukeSentinel(tm) 2.4.2pl5, you really should consider upgrading to the latest version. Wink

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:31 pm

Where's my beer?