Blocking Countries

Using htaccess to block potential site visitors

[emforde]

I have a site and I wish to block people from one particular country from viewing it. Is the best way to do this to use an htaccess file or is there a better way?

[jdMorgan]

emforde,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

.htaccess will do the job, but...

IP addresses are not assigned strictly by country, and you may have to cover many different ranges and sub-ranges if you wish to block only one country. This may entail several dozen lines of mod_access or mod_rewrite code.

There are alternatives, but some are more appropriate for one kind of problem than others.

Jim