Limit Access To Website?

[Boonetown]

Is there a simple way to limit access to a website...for instance I don't want any foreign countries to be able to view or have access to the content. The website does not have any reason to be accessible from outside our country. This would also help stop any hacker attempts from happening. Thanks

[TCH-Alex]

I am sorry, but there is no easier way to restrict or block the access to your domain to foreign countries - as countries having a multiple number of IP ranges through many ISPs. However, you can enable the access of certain IP ranges and can block all others from accessing your domain using .htaccess allow/deny rules. This will work only if you know the IP ranges. For example - if you need to provide the access to the IP ranges 65.47.184.0 - 65.47.187.255, 65.77.172.0 - 65.77.175.255 and to block all other ranges, you can use the following allow/deny rules on .htaccess

 

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
allow from 65.47.184.0/255.255.252.0
allow from 65.77.172.0/255.255.252.0
deny from all
</Limit>

[Boonetown]

Well, I was just wondering if any new other than htaccess would be out there. Either way it will be a lot of work to maintain a deny or allow list. I guess I can't get away with being lazy on this one.

Thanks Alex