I am a small business owner, just me and my wife and I need to install a Geo IP block on my website. Due to copycat competitors I want to limit access to my site when a visitor is coming from a particular country.
I will also need a control/login page that will allow me to easily turn this block on and off when needed.
I see online that there are some OpenSource programs and there is a paid database update program provided by a software company. I am not sure which is best, but If I can block 99.5% of most common computer users in country who do not know how to use proxy servers, I would be very happy.
The page the visitor receive from a blocked country should be simple 404 error page.
Please note that I built my website in iWeb and I want to avoid adding IP blocking code to my individual iWeb files, as this would not allow me to make updates.
I am hoping that I can upload the Geo blocking files to my server independently.
Thank you
I am an expert PHP / SQL developer with more than 6 years commercial experience developing complex applications for corporate and government clients.
I have completed a geo blocking script for a few companies to prevent screen scraping. I have done this very successfully using open source solutions which have more flexible licensing and are updates by more people than commercial software.
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