Block by IP

You can prevent given IP addresses, networks, or country IP ranges from being able to open your website in a web browser.

To enable the protection, you need to browse to the directory you want to protect at the Web access protection section. You should note that the protection works recursively and will affect all lower-level directories. To access the interface for blocking IP addresses/networks, you need to click Manage under Block by IP.

Blocking a single IP address

To block an IP address:

1. Click Add next to Blocked IP addresses.
2. Type in the IP address.
3. Click Add.

The IP address will appear in the Blocked IP addresses section. To remove an IP address from the list, you need to either use the Delete button next to it, or check the box in front of the addresses you want to unblock, and click Delete selected.

Blocking a network range

If you want to disallow the web access for a whole network, you can use wildcards. For example, if you want to block all IP addresses starting with 123.234, you need to specify:

123.234.*.*

This way all IP addresses from this network block (such as 123.234.34.45 for example) will not be able to open your website.

Blocking a Country

To block a whole country:

1. Click Add next to Blocked countries.
2. Choose a country from the drop-down.
3. Click Add.

The country will appear in the Blocked Countries section. To remove a country block you need to either use the Delete button next to it, or check the box in front of the countries you want to unblock, and click Delete selected.

The country level IP block uses the GeoIP database of Maxmind through the mod_maxminddb Apache module to determine which addresses belong to a specific country.